NameCharted is a free baby-name research tool that turns raw government birth records into interactive trend charts. Every chart and ranking on this site is built directly from official data — no guessing, no sponsored placements, no manufactured "most popular" lists.
Our primary dataset is the U.S. Social Security Administration's (SSA) annual name release, which covers every first name given to at least five babies born in the United States in a given year, going back to 1880. We also include official records from the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS), INSEE in France, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), Statistics Canada, and national registries in Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands.
All source data is public-domain or openly licensed by the issuing government agency. We process it as-is — no smoothing, no interpolation — so the numbers you see match exactly what the agencies publish.
Name data reflects registered births, not the full population. Very rare names (fewer than five births in a year) are suppressed by the SSA for privacy reasons and do not appear in the data. Rankings are calculated separately for boys and girls within each country and year. Spelling variants are treated as separate names — "Aidan" and "Aiden" each have their own trend line.
The enrichment data (meanings, origins, famous bearers) is sourced from publicly available encyclopedic references and is provided for informational purposes. Numerology readings are a playful feature, not a scientific analysis.
We update the dataset each year when the SSA and partner agencies publish their annual release, typically in May. The current data covers births through 2024.