About NameAlmanac
NameAlmanac shows what the Social Security Administration’s records say about every first name given in the United States since 1880: how many babies got it each year, where, whether it went to girls or boys, an estimate of how many people with it are alive and how old they are. It covers 105,948 names, with a full record for 51,962 of them.
Who publishes it
NameAlmanac is operated by Kiznis Studio, a one-person studio that builds reference sites on public records with AI tools; NameAlmanac is one of them, and each has its own subject and sources. Kiznis Studio answers for everything on NameAlmanac: the figures, the text and the corrections. Messages to hello@namealmanac.com are read by the person who runs Kiznis Studio, who checks each reported error against the source file, working with AI tools.
What you can check
Every section that shows figures ends with a line naming its source file and date, with a link to the source. The name records read SSA’s national file (1880-2025) and state file (1910-2025), published on May 8, 2026; the living estimates add SSA’s cohort life tables, set beside the 2020 Census count of each first name; meanings are quoted from Wiktionary and credited. The methodology page explains each calculation and its limits, and each name’s births by year can be downloaded as a CSV from its record.
How it is made
A scripted pipeline loads SSA’s files into one database and computes the ranks, shares, trends and estimates; it refuses to publish a rebuild that fails its checks against SSA’s own tables. Sentences about a name are written from that name’s numbers by fixed templates. Kiznis Studio uses AI tools to write the code, the page designs and the explanatory text of the guides and research pages, and reviews that text against the data; the figures in it come from database queries, not from a model.
Disclaimer: what it is not
NameAlmanac is not affiliated with the Social Security Administration, the Census Bureau or Wiktionary, and it gives no advice on choosing a name. It reports what the records show, including their gaps: names given to fewer than 5 babies of a sex in a year are not in SSA’s files, and the living figures are estimates.
Advertising
The site is paid for by advertising served by Journey by Mediavine. Advertisers have no say over what the pages show. The privacy page lists every tool that runs on the site and what it stores.
Contact and corrections
Write to hello@namealmanac.com with a question or an error. Corrections are listed with their dates on the corrections page, and the editorial policy says how we handle them.