Since no one else has mentioned it yet, the SSA now has a way to view names beyond the top 1,000 (down to names that were used at least five times on the respective gender). At the following URL there is a link to download a zip file that has such lists for each year going back to 1880:
Oh my god!!! Why is this the first time I’m seeing this!? I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, though… it is not a very clear list, the names are all just listed (horizontally) along with sex and number… is that how it is for everyone else? Rather difficult to decipher that way. But I did find [name]Dashiell[/name]! There were 116! Along with a handful spelled differently. Anyway though, is there a better way to look at it?
If you right-click and choose to open it in Word or a similar program it should list itself in a better way
I’d also suggest dividing each list in two, one list for boys names and one for girls. Or at least do it with the latest…
I personally use a program called notepad++ which numbers each line (Word doesn’t by default) and I can say that there are 20036 girls names given to 5 or more and only 14404 boys names. I’m not sure what that means to be honest…
[name]Wilhelm[/name], [name]Ferdinand[/name], [name]Diamond[/name], [name]Bernie[/name] and [name]Zeppelin[/name] have the same ranking for boys!!
I [name]LOVE[/name] THIS! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! <3<3<3<3 ^^
[name]Ive[/name] already seen this but I have to say it is a very useful tool. Now I know that there were only 170 [name]Andreas[/name]’ and 106 Cecilys, which is pretty neat. The data is really hard to organize, some other people metioned using excel to organize it.
There are a few of these posted. One of the posts - MilkKate, I think, went really in depth and combined all the names with the same sound, but different spellings and gave us a true top list of most popular names. it was cool.