babynames

This package contains three datasets provided by the USA social security administration:

• babynames: For each year from 1880 to 2013, 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. (Source: http://www.census.gov/statab/hist/02HS0013.xls and http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_09.pdf)

Install it from github with:

devtools::install_github("hadley/babynames")