Context

Cultural diversity in the U.S. has led to great variations in names and naming traditions and names have been used to express creativity, personality, cultural identity, and values. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_in_the_United_States

Content

This public dataset was created by the Social Security Administration and contains all names from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States after 1879. Note that many people born before 1937 never applied for a Social Security card, so their names are not included in this data. For others who did apply, records may not show the place of birth, and again their names are not included in the data.

All data are from a 100% sample of records on Social Security card applications as of the end of February 2015. To safeguard privacy, the Social Security Administration restricts names to those with at least 5 occurrences.

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Acknowledgements

https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:usa_names

https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/usa-names

Dataset Source: Data.gov. This dataset is publicly available for anyone to use under the following terms provided by the Dataset Source — http://www.data.gov/privacy-policy#data_policy — and is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, express or implied, from Google. Google disclaims all liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the dataset.

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Inspiration

What are the most common names?

What are the most common female names?

Are there more female or male names?

Female names by a wide margin?

The data (name, year of birth, sex, and number) are from a 100 percent sample of Social Security card applications for 1880 on.

The list includes 4,250 first names and information on their respective count and proportions across six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups. These six categories are consistent with the categories used in the Census Bureau's surname list.

This statistic shows the most frequent combinations of first name and last name in the United States, as of 2013. According to this ranking, the name "James Smith" occurs most often and is most popular in the United States.

A text database of named places in the United States. The US Board on Geographic Names controls the database of official names of places in the US, and the US Geological Survey (USGS) maintains the database. This is a copy of the 2017-06-01 database, which I am using to create an R package for textual analyses of geographic content, to ensure this version remains. The original source was from: https://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm (which is a very slow server).I have chosen CC0 for the license because, as a creation of the US government, I don't think the database can be copyrighted (and CC0 is the closest match).

US Social Security applications are a great way to track trends in how babies born in the US are named.

Data.gov releases two datasets that are helplful for this: one at the national level and another at the state level. Note that only names with at least 5 babies born in the same year (/ state) are included in this dataset for privacy.

I've taken the raw files here and combined/normalized them into two CSV files (one for each dataset) as well as a SQLite database with two equivalently-defined tables. The code that did these transformations is available here.

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This is a very small but useful dataset if you are ever looking to get jobs for a certain US city in LinkedIn. It contains a list of US cities and states and it's corresponding LinkedIn ID (which is usually externally hidden).

The cities list was retreived from here: https://github.com/kelvins/US-Cities-Database and the names of the ciiadjusted to match the name used in LinkedIn (which could differ in subtle ways).

Some cities do not have an ID, this is because the city is either too small or because there was a difference in the name on LinkedIn which I did not detect (human error). If you ever run in to one of these feel free to enhance this dataset.

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This dataset is part of the Geographical repository maintained by Opendatasoft. This dataset contains data for places and equivalent entities in United States of America.This layer both incorporated places (legal entities) and census designated places or CDPs (statistical entities). An incorporated place is established to provide governmental functions for a concentration of people as opposed to a minor civil division (MCD), which generally is created to provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily, to population. Places always nest within a state, but may extend across county and county subdivision boundaries. An incorporated place usually is a city, town, village, or borough, but can have other legal descriptions. CDPs are delineated for the decennial census as the statistical counterparts of incorporated places. CDPs are delineated to provide data for settled concentrations of population that are identifiable by name, but are not legally incorporated under the laws of the state in which they are located. The boundaries for CDPs often are defined in partnership with state, local, and/or tribal officials and usually coincide with visible features or the boundary of an adjacent incorporated place or another legal entity. CDP boundaries often change from one decennial census to the next with changes in the settlement pattern and development; a CDP with the same name as in an earlier census does not necessarily have the same boundary. The only population/housing size requirement for CDPs is that they must contain some housing and population. Processors and tools are using this data. Enhancements Add ISO 3166-3 codes. Simplify geometries to provide better performance across the services. Add administrative hierarchy.

This database is part of the ArabLEX set of data which consists of the Database of Arabic General Vocabulary (DAG), Database of Arabic Place Names (DAP), Database of Foreign Names in Arabic (DAF) and Database of Arab Names (DAN) available from ELRA under references, respectively, ELRA-L0131, ELRA-M0105, ELRA-M0106 and ELRA-M0107.This full-form Arabic-English place name database of over 21,000 lemmas and nearly 6.5 million forms provides worldwide coverage of common place names, given in standard MSA orthography, and includes all inflected and cliticized forms for each place name. In addition, precise phonemic transcriptions and full vowel diacritics are designed to enhance Arabic speech technology. Orthographic variants are also extensively covered.This database is provided with three options: 1) proclitics, 2) phonetic information (CARS) and 3) orthographic variants. Subsets excluding some of the three proposed options may be provided upon demand. CARS is an accurate phonemic transcription. Optionally, phonetic transcriptions, IPA and/or SAMPA, can be provided, fine tuned to a customer's specifications.Quantity and size: 6,455,201 lines / 812 MBFile format: flat TSV text filesSamples and a specifications document available upon request.

Official Street Names in the City of Los Angeles created and maintained by the Bureau of Engineering.

We provide datasets that that estimate the racial distributions associated with first, middle, and last names in the United States. The datasets cover five racial categories: White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Other. The provided data are computed from the voter files of six Southern states -- Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and South Carolina -- that collect race and ethnicity data upon registration. We include seven voter files per state, sourced between 2018 and 2021 from L2, Inc. Together, these states have approximately 36MM individuals who provide self-reported race and ethnicity. The last name datasets includes 338K surnames, while the middle name dictionaries contains 126K middle names and the first name datasets includes 136K first names. For each type of name, we provide a dataset of P(race | name) probabilities and P(name | race) probabilities. We include only names that appear at least 25 times across the 42 (= 7 voter files * 6 states) voter files in our dataset. These data are closely related to the the dataset: "Name Dictionaries for "wru" R Package", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7TRYAC. These are the probabilities used in the latest iteration of the "WRU" package (Khanna et al., 2022) to make probabilistic predictions about the race of individuals, given their names and geolocations.

The Bureau of the Census has released Census 2000 Summary File 1 (SF1) 100-Percent data. The file includes the following population items: sex, age, race, Hispanic or Latino origin, household relationship, and household and family characteristics. Housing items include occupancy status and tenure (whether the unit is owner or renter occupied). SF1 does not include information on incomes, poverty status, overcrowded housing or age of housing. These topics will be covered in Summary File 3. Data are available for states, counties, county subdivisions, places, census tracts, block groups, and, where applicable, American Indian and Alaskan Native Areas and Hawaiian Home Lands. The SF1 data are available on the Bureau's web site and may be retrieved from American FactFinder as tables, lists, or maps. Users may also download a set of compressed ASCII files for each state via the Bureau's FTP server. There are over 8000 data items available for each geographic area. The full listing of these data items is available here as a downloadable compressed data base file named TABLES.ZIP. The uncompressed is in FoxPro data base file (dbf) format and may be imported to ACCESS, EXCEL, and other software formats. While all of this information is useful, the Office of Community Planning and Development has downloaded selected information for all states and areas and is making this information available on the CPD web pages. The tables and data items selected are those items used in the CDBG and HOME allocation formulas plus topics most pertinent to the Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS), the Consolidated Plan, and similar overall economic and community development plans. The information is contained in five compressed (zipped) dbf tables for each state. When uncompressed the tables are ready for use with FoxPro and they can be imported into ACCESS, EXCEL, and other spreadsheet, GIS and database software. The data are at the block group summary level. The first two characters of the file name are the state abbreviation. The next two letters are BG for block group. Each record is labeled with the code and name of the city and county in which it is located so that the data can be summarized to higher-level geography. The last part of the file name describes the contents . The GEO file contains standard Census Bureau geographic identifiers for each block group, such as the metropolitan area code and congressional district code. The only data included in this table is total population and total housing units. POP1 and POP2 contain selected population variables and selected housing items are in the HU file. The MA05 table data is only for use by State CDBG grantees for the reporting of the racial composition of beneficiaries of Area Benefit activities. The complete package for a state consists of the dictionary file named TABLES, and the five data files for the state. The logical record number (LOGRECNO) links the records across tables.

The GEOnet Names Server (GNS) provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (BGN) database of geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the BGN. Geographic coordinates are approximate and are intended for general location. Place name information is based on the Geographic Names Data Base, containing official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names and maintained by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The geographic names in this database are provided for the guidance of and use by the Federal Government and for the information of the general public. The names, variants, and associated data may not reflect the views of the United States Government on the sovereignty over geographic features.

Chinese name components, accompanied by accurate pinyin readings, gender codes, and flags denoting whether name is a given name, surname, or both.

URL from idinfo/citation in CSDGM metadata.

First names and last names by country according to affiliations in journal articles 2001-2021 as recorded in Scopus. For 200 countries, there is a complete list of all first names and all last names of at least one researcher with a national affiliation in that country. Each file also records: the number of researchers with that name in the country, the proportion of researchers with that name in the country compared to the world, the number of researchers with that name in the world,

For example, for the USA:

Name Authors in USA Proportion in USA Total Sadrach 3 1.000 3 Rangsan 1 0.083 12 Parry 6 0.273 22 Howard 2008 0.733 2739

Only the first parts of double last names are included. For example, Rodriquez Gonzalez, Maria would have only Rodriquez recorded.

This is from the paper: "Can national researcher mobility be tracked by first or last name uniqueness"

List of countries Afghanistan; Albania; Algeria; Angola; Argentina; Armenia; Australia; Austria; Azerbaijan; Bahamas; Bahrain; Bangladesh; Barbados; Belarus; Belgium; Belize; Benin; Bermuda; Bhutan; Bolivia; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Botswana; Brazil; Brunei Darussalam; Bulgaria; Burkina Faso; Burundi; Cambodia; Cameroon; Canada; Cape Verde; Cayman Islands; Central African Republic; Chad; Chile; China; Colombia; Congo; Costa Rica; Cote d'Ivoire; Croatia; Cuba; Cyprus; Czech Republic; Democratic Republic Congo; Denmark; Djibouti; Dominican Republic; Ecuador; Egypt; El Salvador; Eritrea; Estonia; Ethiopia; Falkland Islands (Malvinas); Faroe Islands; Federated States of Micronesia; Fiji; Finland; France; French Guiana; French Polynesia; Gabon; Gambia; Georgia; Germany; Ghana; Greece; Greenland; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guam; Guatemala; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Hong Kong; Hungary; Iceland; India; Indonesia; Iran; Iraq; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Jamaica; Japan; Jordan; Kazakhstan; Kenya; Kuwait; Kyrgyzstan; Laos; Latvia; Lebanon; Lesotho; Liberia; Libyan Arab Jamahiriya; Liechtenstein; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Macao; Macedonia; Madagascar; Malawi; Malaysia; Maldives; Mali; Malta; Martinique; Mauritania; Mauritius; Mexico; Moldova; Monaco; Mongolia; Montenegro; Morocco; Mozambique; Myanmar; Namibia; Nepal; Netherlands; New Caledonia; New Zealand; Nicaragua; Niger; Nigeria; North Korea; North Macedonia; Norway; Oman; Pakistan; Palau; Palestine; Panama; Papua New Guinea; Paraguay; Peru; Philippines; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Qatar; Reunion; Romania; Russia; Russian Federation; Rwanda; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Samoa; San Marino; Saudi Arabia; Senegal; Serbia; Seychelles; Sierra Leone; Singapore; Slovakia; Slovenia; Solomon Islands; Somalia; South Africa; South Korea; South Sudan; Spain; Sri Lanka; Sudan; Suriname; Swaziland; Sweden; Switzerland; Syrian Arab Republic; Taiwan; Tajikistan; Tanzania; Thailand; Timor-Leste; Togo; Trinidad and Tobago; Tunisia; Turkey; Uganda; Ukraine; United Arab Emirates; United Kingdom; United States; Uruguay; Uzbekistan; Vanuatu; Venezuela; Viet Nam; Virgin Islands (U.S.); Yemen; Yugoslavia; Zambia; Zimbabwe

This database covers non-Arabic names, their Arabic equivalents, and Arabic script variants for each name (with the most important variant given first).

Alesco’s aggregated consumer email database consists of over 2.3 billion U.S. records with name, address and email. The database is fully CAN-SPAM and privacy compliant, and records include referring URL, IP address and date stamp. Postal addresses are address standardized and processed through NCOA. Available for licensing!

File size: 2.3 Billion IP Address: 1.9 Billion eAppend data: 1.8 Billion (full name/postal) Acquisition: 269 Million (full demo’s)

Fields Included: Name Address Email Phone IP Address

Consumer Behavior Data Consumer Demographic Data Identity Data Audience Data

French First Names from Death Records (1970-2024)

This dataset contains French first names extracted from death records provided by INSEE (French National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies) covering the period from 1970 to September 2024.

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The data is sourced from INSEE's death records database. It includes first names of deceased individuals in France, providing valuable insights into naming patterns across different… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/eltorio/french_first_names_insee_2024.