Australia

NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages — Popular Baby Names (annual top 100 per gender), 1952-2025 · CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution; version not stated on the record)

Who is counted

Dataset record, verbatim: « Finding the right name to give to your baby can be fun and challenging. NSW Registry of Birth, Deaths and Marriages have provided a list of popular names to help you find the one that's just right for you. An annual list of the most popular baby names in NSW is based on the names registered in the previous calendar year. We have combined the annual lists from 1952 to 2025 and made it available. »

Rounding

No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed).

Unpublished counts

Only the annual popular-names list is published (top 100 per gender; ties can extend a list). No count threshold is stated. A name absent from a year's list was not in that year's top 100 — its count is unknown, never zero.

Ranking

Rank as published in the Rank column, preserved verbatim; never recomputed. Tie handling is not described on the record. Observed: 9 of 148 year/gender lists use shared ranks for tied counts (competition ranking); 138 lists have Rank equal to the row position (1, 2, 3, ...), so tied counts receive consecutive ranks (lists without ties satisfy both descriptions); 139 lists are not competition-ranked.

Spelling policy

Spellings kept as published: upper case (e.g. NOAH, JO-ANNE); no diacritics observed (see notes). Whether the registry strips diacritics is not stated. Sex codes: Gender Male→M, Female→F.