Hawaii 575-576
It's not where one is born, it's where one is residing when the application is made. Today, that's quite likely to be the same general place where one was born, since the SSN# is generally applied for soon after birth by the parents. But in the "old days", it was the office which processed you application, but since then it's been tied to the place you listed as your return address on your application. In those "old days", and some not so old, a person didn't get a SSN until they started earning money, so rarely any younger than 12, and that was mostly for girls needing to report babysitting income (the few that did that is).