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Corrections

Six errors in the version of NameAlmanac replaced on September 29, 2026 are listed below: placeholder records shown as names, a false comparison on Emma’s page, a wrong description of SSA’s file on year pages, a wrong claim about the 1950s, a garbled Texas comparison and a build date shown as the data date. Each entry says what was wrong and what changed. Found another? Write to hello@namealmanac.com with the page address, and the error is checked against the SSA file it came from.

Updated

Corrections, newest first

  1. Placeholder records no longer shown as names. SSA’s files include records such as Baby (12,481 births), Unknown and Infant for cards issued before a name was chosen. Some were listed and ranked as names. They are now counted in totals only.
  2. A false comparison on name pages removed. Emma’s page said Olivia "still leads by a wide margin" in an all-time comparison; SSA has recorded 567,345 girls named Olivia against 776,439 girls named Emma. The comparison table and its sentence were removed.
  3. Year pages misdescribed SSA’s file. Year pages said the top 100 was the part of SSA’s data released for that year, and that the names covered about 96% of U.S. births. SSA publishes every name given to at least 5 babies of a sex (20,091 name-and-sex entries for 1985), and the 96% figure had no source. Both sentences were removed.
  4. A wrong claim about the 1950s. The 1950s page called the decade the peak of the baby boom with the highest yearly births in U.S. history. U.S. births were higher in 2007 (4,316,233, CDC). The claim was removed.
  5. A garbled comparison on state pages removed. Texas’s page compared an all-time count with a count of 2025 names in one sentence that read as a single figure. It was removed.
  6. One data date on every page. Pages showed the date our database was rebuilt as the data date. Every page now shows the date of SSA’s release, May 8, 2026.

How corrections are handled: editorial policy.