# SSA lists beyond the top 1,000 **URL:** \ **Category:** General Name Discussion\ **Created:** [May 19, 2010, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.nameberry.com/t/ssa-lists-beyond-the-top-1-000/144512 "2010-05-19T09:44:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![namefan](https://forum.nameberry.com/letter_avatar/namefan/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@namefan](https://forum.nameberry.com/u/namefan)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.nameberry.com/t/ssa-lists-beyond-the-top-1-000/144512/1 "2010-05-19T09:44:34Z")
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: > **[Popular Baby Names](https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/limits.html)** > > Popular Baby Names ---
**Author:** ![lyndsayjenness](https://forum.nameberry.com/user_avatar/forum.nameberry.com/lyndsayjenness/32/13_2.png) [@lyndsayjenness](https://forum.nameberry.com/u/lyndsayjenness)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.nameberry.com/t/ssa-lists-beyond-the-top-1-000/144512/2 "2010-05-19T11:20:41Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Dearest](https://forum.nameberry.com/user_avatar/forum.nameberry.com/dearest/32/53_2.png) [@Dearest](https://forum.nameberry.com/u/Dearest)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 11:37am UTC](https://forum.nameberry.com/t/ssa-lists-beyond-the-top-1-000/144512/3 "2010-05-19T11:37:24Z")
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 ^^ ---
**Author:** ![leah\_9](https://forum.nameberry.com/letter_avatar/leah_9/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@leah\_9](https://forum.nameberry.com/u/leah_9)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.nameberry.com/t/ssa-lists-beyond-the-top-1-000/144512/4 "2010-05-19T12:30:59Z")
[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. ---
**Author:** ![cuzikool](https://forum.nameberry.com/letter_avatar/cuzikool/32/6_22734026db12803ebb3e059622ac3534.png) [@cuzikool](https://forum.nameberry.com/u/cuzikool)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2010, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.nameberry.com/t/ssa-lists-beyond-the-top-1-000/144512/5 "2010-05-19T12:44:20Z")
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.