Context Cultural diversity in the U.S. has led to great variations in names and naming traditions and names have been used to express creativity, personality, cultural identity, and values. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_in_the_United_States Content This public dataset was created by the Social Security Administration and contains all names from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States after 1879. Note that many people born before 1937 never applied for a Social Security card, so their names are not included in this data. For others who did apply, records may not show the place of birth, and again their names are not included in the data. All data are from a 100% sample of records on Social Security card applications as of the end of February 2015. To safeguard privacy, the Social Security Administration restricts names to those with at least 5 occurrences. Fork [this kernel][1] to get started with this dataset. Acknowledgements https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/dataset/bigquery-public-data:usa_names https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/public-data/usa-names Dataset Source: Data.gov. This dataset is publicly available for anyone to use under the following terms provided by the Dataset Source — http://www.data.gov/privacy-policy#data_policy — and is provided "AS IS" without any warranty, express or implied, from Google. Google disclaims all liability for any damages, direct or indirect, resulting from the use of the dataset. Banner Photo by [@dcp from Unplash][2]. Inspiration What are the most common names? What are the most common female names? Are there more female or male names? Female names by a wide margin? [1]: https://www.kaggle.com/paultimothymooney/starter-kernel-for-usa-names-data [2]: https://unsplash.com/photos/7lmq5Gniypg