The SSA archive online does both, but only back to 1980. Past that, you can only get popularity by year, but not state. Every other site that my Googlefu is getting me pretty blatantly just gets their info from the SSA.

In particular, I’m looking for popular baby names in Tennessee in 1935, but I’m somewhat flexible on year and location, so long as it’s vaguely in the right area. Besides, having a more generalized resource would be awesome.

I’ve had a small bit of luck looking up records of death to find names, but that’s like playing roulette, really.

Topics: writing, baby names, Tennessee, census, 1930s, ssa