Canada

British Columbia — 100 Years of Popular Baby Names (first names used 5 or more times), 1926-2025 · OGL-BC (Open Government License - British Columbia; version not stated on the page)

Who is counted

Landing page, verbatim: « Each year, the Vital Statistics Agency provides a list of the most popular baby names from the birth registrations received. The list includes every given name that was chosen five or more times. » Dataset description: « History of the most popular first names given to boys born in B.C. over the past 100 years. » (girls: same wording).

Rounding

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

Unpublished counts

Landing page, verbatim: « Only the first names used 5 or more times in the same year are presented. » In the CSVs such names appear as 0 for that year; NameStoria does not emit those cells (absence = under 5, never zero).

Ranking

No ranks are published in the CSVs; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex over names presented that year (5 or more).

Spelling policy

Spellings kept as published: upper case, with diacritics where the agency kept them (non-ASCII characters present: ÉÏËÍÁ). The agency does not state whether diacritics are always preserved. Sex codes: boys file (-m-)→M, girls file (-f-)→F.