Check this out at namestats.herokuapp.com. Note that this runs on Heroku's free tier, and it's not very popular, so the first request can take several seconds to spin up a dyno.

I wrote this to research names for my daughter. We named her Isla.

This project draws its name statistics from the Social Security Administration. It shows you popularity over time. Hover over each bar to see statistics for a particular year!

There were 19903 births in 1980. (#18)

This caption means for 1980 there were 19,903 children of this sex given this name. There were 17 names that were more popular in 1980.

Static assets are under static. Data is stored in MongoDB and served from there.

To run the server locally:

go generate ./...
godep go install ./...
namestats-server --listen=:8080 --uri=mongodb://localhost/namestats

Now go to http://localhost:8080.