# Names

U.S. given-name popularity, trends, and historical records from Social Security data.

## Access

- Kind: api
- Audience: public
- Access: open
- Authentication: No authentication is required for public lookups.
- Lifecycle: active
- Observed health: operational

## Integration links

- Base URL: https://names.datasourceapi.com
- Documentation: https://names.datasourceapi.com/docs
- Repository: https://github.com/coopalliance/cca-cucm-services
- Catalog metadata: https://services.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/services/names

## Capabilities

- demographics
- name-popularity
- names
- time-series

## Provenance and freshness

- U.S. Social Security Administration: National baby-name records from 1880 onward, subject to SSA suppression rules. (https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html)

Update cadence: Annual source publication; deployment cadence is not published.. Metadata last verified: 2026-09-03.


## Agent readiness

limited (45/100): Public docs exist, but a directly attributable implementation repository and OpenAPI URL were not confirmed.

## Examples

### Name lookup

Retrieve historical data for a given name.

```http
GET https://names.datasourceapi.com/api/v1/name/Mary
```