Show HN: I Parsed Every Name from SSA Cards and Visualized the Data

[aramsh]

Hi HN!

I’m Aram, a fourteen year old in Seattle. I recently found out that the social security administration (SSA) provides datasets of every name on a social security card (1880-2023)! So i made a tool for people to graph them, compare them with other names, view the most popular names of years, and even see how many people are alive with a name (using a rough actuary db also from the ssa). I would love to hear y’all’s thoughts!

It's also open source https://github.com/aramshiva/nomen if you want to check out the code

[novon]

Awesome! Really interesting to see the name patterns change over time.

[2028163]

cool project! i wonder some other cool projects with this dataset, one that comes to mind is seeing names that have similar graphs/trends over time to see similar names

[marmar09102]

Thats a great idea! excited to dig in