This directory contains most Popular Names given to newborn babies as recorded at the Social Security Administration. Source: http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames File format: Each line contains the rank, male name, # of people given that name, female name, # of people given that name. The files names1900, names1910, ... names1990 contain 10-year data. I.e. names1900 has the top 1000 names from 1900-1909. The files names2000, names 2001, names2002, names2003 and names2004 contain data for just 1 year.