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sp332 on Oct 6, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Bacon Boom Was Not an Accident

Shouldn't your search also find the 29,000 people with the last name of Bacon? https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=bacon&a=*C.bacon-_*Sur...

mzs on Oct 6, 2014 [–]

No, it does not include that:

    usa$ head -5 yob2008.txt 
    Emma,F,18791
    Isabella,F,18598
    Emily,F,17419
    Olivia,F,17066
    Ava,F,17024

The USA Census Bureau released names.zip and namesbystate.zip back in May and they include README files of how they were anonymized.

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