Social Security card applications · 1910–2025 · all fifty states and D.C.
Baby-name sites tell you about a name. This one tells you about a place. Pick a state and watch its whole naming field move — every top name traced over any stretch of years back to 1910, the steepest climbs and slides, and whether your state takes up a name years before the country or years after. Then bring your own shortlist: the names you are actually weighing, compared at full depth, in the state your kid will grow up in.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration state and national name files. Retrieved 19 August 2026. Counts are births recorded on card applications, not total births; every spelling counts separately; names under five births in a state-year are withheld by the SSA.
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Each page has the full standings, the biggest movers, the state-against-the-country timing, and the shortlist tool. The subtitle is the state's most-given boy and girl name of 2025.