NName Atlas Lab

Name histories

Read the record behind a name.

These 20 profiles cover the spellings in the 2025 national top ten for each published SSA sex field. Each profile shows a small, verifiable slice of the 1880–2025 record and an editorial reading of its shape.

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What a profile means

These are U.S. Social Security birth-name records, not origin dictionaries. Counts are published annual observations for an exact spelling and recorded sex field. A name missing from a year may have been suppressed because its count was small; absence does not prove zero use. Positions here are calculated from the published file, not presented as official SSA ranks.

See the SSA national data and suppression rules · our data method. For a different name, use the annual popularity lookup.