Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Popular names for newborns

Ever wonder how an ancestor got his or her first name? The Social Security website has a page for baby names. You can search for the most popular names, going back to the 1880's, and you can search by state or by decade.  The source of the information is from Social Security card applications for people born after 1879, so it doesn't include people born before 1937 who never applied for a card.

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Ted Talk: How We're Building the World's Largest Family Tree

 From Ted.com in 2018.