This package contains three datasets provided by the USA social security administration:
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babynames: For each year from 1880 to 2015, the number of children of each sex given each name. All names with more than 5 uses are given. (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html) -
applicants: The number of applicants for social security numbers (SSN) for each year for each sex. (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/numberUSbirths.html) -
lifetables: Cohort life tables data (Source: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/NOTES/as120/LifeTables_Body.html)
It also includes the following data set from the US Census:
births: Number of live births by year, up to 2015. (Source: an Excel spreadsheet from the Census that has since been removed from their website and https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_01.pdf)
# Install the released version from CRAN
install.packages("babynames")
# Install the development version from GitHub
devtools::install_github("hadley/babynames")