babynames

Baby Names by Birth Year

A Shiny Application by Uma Mahesh Varma

What’s Your Name?

• Have you met a lot of people with the same name as you?

• Are they older or younger than you?

• Do you know someone of the opposite gender with your name?

Would you like to learn more about your name?

With my Shiny Application, now you can!

• Input your name
• View a plot of the number of males and females born with your name in the US from 1880 to 2013
• Find out in which year your name was most popular, and how many children have been born with your name!

Data Source

The data for this application was provided by the United States Social Security Administration, and was converted into an R package by Hadley Wickham.

Here are the number of unique names in the dataset:

library(babynames)
length(unique(babynames$name))

## [1] 95025