Social Security card applications · 100% sample
Eleven years of the state's fifty most-given boy names — who climbed, who slipped, and who left entirely. Set the years and depth, switch to girls, or check North Dakota against the country.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Beyond the Top 1000 Names state and national files. Retrieved 19 August 2026. Counts are births recorded on card applications, not total births.
Rank over time
Your names, this state
Rank change
Births per year
Entries and exits
Every name
Before you draw conclusions
Timing
The same name, two curves
Level, not timing
All fifty states, plus D.C.
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