The door only opens one way

US Social Security Administration, national baby-name applications · public domain (CC0 1.0 via data.gov) · 1880–2025 · 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births

Three datasets, and only two are fetched when the page opens. The story is told from 62 KB; the 2.1 MB name table that answers "what about my name?" is requested the first time a reader asks and never otherwise.

A dashboard titled "The door only opens one way". A line chart spanning 1880 to 2025 plots, for each of twenty-four first names, the share of babies given it who were girls: twenty-three amber lines climb from near 0% to near 100%, and one blue line rides above 75% for decades before falling off a cliff to 5% after 2012. Three statistic cards read 23 names crossed from boys to girls, 1 crossed the other way, and 1,823 names were eligible to be tested. Below, a grid of twenty-four small sparkline cards, one per name, labelled with the year each turned — Shelby 1936 through Kyrie 2012. Then two segmented controls over a six-by-four table showing the same test run at twenty-four different strictness settings, every cell printing a boys-to-girls count beside a girls-to-boys count, and a paired bar chart. Last, a text box where a reader types a name, showing Ashley rising from 0% to 99% girls with its annual birth totals ghosted behind the line.

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Vía de datos: Vía de consulta
Por vista: 2181.5 KB descargados, 3 extracción
Antigüedad: a fecha de 2025-01-01
Accesibilidad: se abre sin cuenta

Medido contra el host en vivo, sin ninguna credencial, el 2026-10-09.

La pregunta que responde

A name can stop being a boy’s name and become a girl’s name. How often does it go back the other way?

Los datos, y de qué periodo

US Social Security baby names, 1880–2025.

Cómo obtiene sus filas

Three queries, in your browser, with no key. The 2 MB name table is fetched only when you type a name.

Qué vuelve

97% of the data sits behind a question most readers never ask.

Qué fue difícil

“Crossed” needs a popularity floor, a window and two share bands, and one flattering choice looks exactly like a result. So the test runs at 24 settings and all 24 are published: boys-to-girls wins every one, and girls-to-boys is zero in nine.

Qué pasó después de construirlo

Frozen. The SSA publishes once a year.

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