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Sources and methodology

NameStoria publishes only what a source supports. This page lists the sources behind the catalogue, their licences, the statistical rules we preserve, and the current measured coverage.

Linguistic sources

WikidataCC0 1.0: Name identities, language contexts (P407), writing systems (P282), native labels, gendered forms (P1560), transliterations (P2440), name days, and links to pronunciation files. “Said to be the same as” (P460) is shown as a weak link, never as equivalence.
English Wiktionary via Kaikki / wiktextractCC BY-SA 4.0 (text): Given-name senses only: meanings, etymology text, IPA and recordings. Each sense keeps its entry language, edition, and licence. We never import every proper noun.
Wikimedia CommonsPer file: Human pronunciation recordings. A file is published only when its licence and attribution were retrieved from the file page; otherwise it stays unpublished.
JMnedict (EDRDG)CC BY-SA 4.0: Japanese given names: written forms and kana readings, classified feminine, masculine or given. Readings are search aids, not etymologies; no meaning is derived from them. File date is recorded with every record and refreshed per the EDRDG licence.
Other Wiktionary editions via Kaikki / wiktextractCC BY-SA 4.0 (text): Given-name evidence from twelve editions, including French, German, Greek and Japanese. Entry language and edition are recorded separately; ambiguous matches remain unpublished for review.
Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)Public domain: Historical scholarship, explicitly labelled with its date. These notes preserve a nineteenth-century author's account and do not establish a modern etymology.
Editorial review—: Nothing in the current catalogue is marked “Reviewed”. All claims are labelled “Source-reported” until a named reviewer records a check.

Official statistics

Armenia — Armstat published registered newborn names, 2003–2025

Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (Armstat) · Armenia · 2003–2025 · status: imported · 3,718 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: National newborn names recorded in civil-status birth acts, Armstat boys table PS-pp-11 and girls table PS-pp-9. Historical named categories in the publisher's most-frequent-name tables; not a complete register of all names. The source quality declaration describes its purpose as the 50 most frequently used names per sex.
Measurement:: births-registered-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts and sex-specific total-birth rows retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Null cells are unavailable/unpublished and are omitted without converting them to zero. Explicit numeric zeros in the API are retained as observed, unranked values. Names outside the published categories remain unknown.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips, over selected published positive counts only. Explicit zero observations remain unranked.
Spelling policy:: Armenian-script labels retained without transliteration or accent folding. Surrounding whitespace is trimmed (the boys label for Լեո has a leading space); raw labels remain in source files. English transliterations are not substituted for the Armenian spellings.
Licence:: Armstat PX table metadata: COPYRIGHT=NO (no standard licence version stated)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://statbank.armstat.am/pxweb/hy/ArmStatBank/ArmStatBank__2%20Population%20and%20social%20processes__28%20Population/PS-pp-11-2025.px/

Selected most-frequent-name categories and their available historical counts, not every name registered in Armenia. Computed tail ranks describe only those published categories.
46 denominators come from the two tables' explicit sex/year total-birth rows, not sums of selected names.
Both source PX files declare COPYRIGHT=NO; no CC0 or other standardized licence is inferred from that flag.
Armstat's JSON-stat metadata marks the table's official-statistics category false; the actual publisher remains Armstat.
No given-name position is inferred beyond the publisher's registered-name field; source definitions are preserved in the quality declaration.

Source: Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (Armstat), ArmStatBank tables PS-pp-11 and PS-pp-9, 2003–2025. Both source PX files explicitly state COPYRIGHT=NO. NameStoria reformats the data, trims surrounding label spaces and computes ranks over the published positive counts.

British Columbia — 100 Years of Popular Baby Names (first names used 5 or more times), 1926-2025

Government of British Columbia, Vital Statistics Agency · British Columbia · 1926–2025 · status: imported · 90,461 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: 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).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: 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.
Licence:: OGL-BC (Open Government License - British Columbia; version not stated on the page)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 335c4dcbbc2b38d7…
Landing page:: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/life-events/statistics-reports/bc-s-most-popular-baby-names

British Columbia only (region CA-BC); not Canada.
Names used fewer than 5 times in a year are not presented (shown as 0 in the CSV).
Whether 'given name' means first given name only, and whether years are birth or registration years, is not stated on the page ('first names given to boys born in B.C.' suggests birth year, first name).
The CSV TOTAL column is not imported; no denominators are published.
Licence version unstated on the page.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government License – British Columbia (source: B.C. Vital Statistics Agency).

Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023

BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · Berlin · 2017–2023 · status: imported · 22,508 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Published counts for first-position given names of newborn children registered at Berlin's twelve district registry offices. Disjoint common district counts and the citywide pool of district-singleton counts are added; anonymous unique-name totals are excluded.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: District counts of one are moved to a separate pool and combined by spelling/sex/position; pooled counts of one remain anonymous and cannot be assigned to names. Published subtotals can omit singleton contributions even for names published elsewhere. Missing contributions are unknown, never inferred as zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips; ranks describe published position-1 subtotals, not a complete unsuppressed register.
Spelling policy:: Exact Unicode spellings retained; only position 1 is used. Position is not evidence of the calling name. Earlier 2012–2016 files without name positions are not mixed into this series.
Licence:: CC-BY-3.0-DE
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://github.com/berlin/haeufige-vornamen-berlin

Berlin regional coverage only; not national German popularity.
These are sums of published counts, potentially below unsuppressed totals because some district-singleton contributions remain anonymous.
National names and omitted singleton spellings cannot be inferred from these lists. No denominators imported.
Pinned government-linked repository revision 34ce79c5eccb7bc1f24087a7a3edb1a100bf39e4; latest available year there is 2023.

BerlinOnline GmbH, auf Basis von Daten des Berliner Landesamtes für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO). https://github.com/berlin/haeufige-vornamen-berlin, revision 34ce79c5eccb7bc1f24087a7a3edb1a100bf39e4. NameStoria aggregates published position-1 counts and computes ranks.

Israel CBS — current first names of persons born 1949-2024, population group: Christian Arabs (נוצרים-ערבים) (release 391/2025, table 1)

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) · Israel · 1949–2024 · status: imported · 49,415 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Workbook title, verbatim: « השמות הנוכחיים של ילידי 1949-2024 לפי מין וקבוצת אוכלוסייה, שם פרטי ושנת לידה » (current names of persons born 1949-2024 by sex and population group, first name and year of birth). Population group as labelled by CBS: Christian Arabs (נוצרים-ערבים); sheets « בנות נוצריות-ערביות » and « בנים נוצרים-ערבים ». Release text (11_25_391b.pdf), verbatim: « הנתונים בהודעה זו מבוססים על קובץ מרשם האוכלוסין המעודכן לאפריל 2025. » « שמותיהם של חלק מילידי 2024 (2.2% מכלל האוכלוסייה ו-2.6% מהיהודים) לא הופיעו במרשם התושבים עד למועד הפקת הקובץ (אפריל 2025). » « הנתונים שבהודעה מתייחסים לשם הפרטי הראשון אלא אם כן נכתב אחרת. » « הדת נקבעה בהתאם למופיע במרשם האוכלוסין. » (Population Register file as of April 2025; first given name; religion as recorded in the Population Register.) Counts are current names in the register of persons born in each year, not names registered at birth.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). Thousands separators in the total column are removed when parsing.
Suppression:: Cells published as '..' are kept as valueStatus "suppressed" with count null (never zero). The meaning of '..' and the inclusion threshold are not stated in the workbook or in the release text read (11_25_391b.pdf); every listed name has a total of at least 5 across the period (see notes). Cells published as 0 are not emitted: for a name listed in this dataset, a missing year means CBS published 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in table 1; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex within this population group over published counts only ('..' cells excluded).
Spelling policy:: Hebrew-script spellings kept exactly as published (no niqqud). Release text, verbatim: « השמות עברו תהליך של טיוב שבו אוחדו שמות זהים שנכתבו באיות שונה תחת האיות הנפוץ יותר. למשל השמות אביגייל ו-אביגיל נספרו כ-אביגיל. אך השמות יונתן ויהונתן נספרו בנפרד כיוון שהם נהגים בצורה שונה. » « שמות שונים הנכתבים בצורה זהה (ללא סימני ניקוד), מופיעים כשם אחד » (CBS merges identical names written in different spellings under the more common spelling; different names written identically without niqqud appear as one name). « אם השם הפרטי מופיע כשתי מילים מחוברות במקף (למשל: מנחם-מנדל), הוא ייחשב כשם אחד. » Sex: sheets labelled בנות (girls)→F, בנים (boys)→M. Transliteration is a separate, later step.
Licence:: CBS-Open-License (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Open License; commercial use permitted)
Release:: 2025-12-08 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 37b9783487d5de49…
Landing page:: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/Pages/2025/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99-2024.aspx

One dataset per CBS population group (Jews, Muslims, Christian Arabs, Druze); groups are presented exactly as CBS labels them, must never be summed, and say nothing about any individual's identity. The archived 'Other' group (1985-2021) is not in this workbook.
Measurement: current first names in the Population Register (April 2025) of persons born in each year — not names given at birth; names can change and older cohorts reflect today's register (whether persons born abroad, deceased or emigrated are included is not stated in the text read). 'resident-population' is the closest MeasurementType; no exact type exists.
Spellings are CBS-harmonised (variant spellings merged); homographs without niqqud are merged. Spellings are kept verbatim, including one published with a leading apostrophe ("'ג'ורג'").
The 'סך הכל' (total) column is not imported: for names with no '..' cells it is larger than the sum of the 1949-2024 cells, and its scope is not stated.
'..' cells are withheld values of unstated meaning (see suppressionRule).
2024 is incomplete: 2.2% of persons born in 2024 had no name in the register by April 2025 (release text).
No denominators imported.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), 11_25_391t1.xlsx — current first names of persons born 1949-2024 by sex and population group (2026-10-15), available online: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2025/391/11_25_391t1.xlsx copied and distributed as is according to the CBS license at the website https://www.cbs.gov.il/en/Pages/Enduser-license.aspx

Israel CBS — current first names of persons born 1949-2024, population group: Druze (דרוזים) (release 391/2025, table 1)

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) · Israel · 1949–2024 · status: imported · 46,779 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Workbook title, verbatim: « השמות הנוכחיים של ילידי 1949-2024 לפי מין וקבוצת אוכלוסייה, שם פרטי ושנת לידה » (current names of persons born 1949-2024 by sex and population group, first name and year of birth). Population group as labelled by CBS: Druze (דרוזים); sheets « בנות דרוזיות » and « בנים דרוזים ». Release text (11_25_391b.pdf), verbatim: « הנתונים בהודעה זו מבוססים על קובץ מרשם האוכלוסין המעודכן לאפריל 2025. » « שמותיהם של חלק מילידי 2024 (2.2% מכלל האוכלוסייה ו-2.6% מהיהודים) לא הופיעו במרשם התושבים עד למועד הפקת הקובץ (אפריל 2025). » « הנתונים שבהודעה מתייחסים לשם הפרטי הראשון אלא אם כן נכתב אחרת. » « הדת נקבעה בהתאם למופיע במרשם האוכלוסין. » (Population Register file as of April 2025; first given name; religion as recorded in the Population Register.) Counts are current names in the register of persons born in each year, not names registered at birth.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). Thousands separators in the total column are removed when parsing.
Suppression:: Cells published as '..' are kept as valueStatus "suppressed" with count null (never zero). The meaning of '..' and the inclusion threshold are not stated in the workbook or in the release text read (11_25_391b.pdf); every listed name has a total of at least 5 across the period (see notes). Cells published as 0 are not emitted: for a name listed in this dataset, a missing year means CBS published 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in table 1; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex within this population group over published counts only ('..' cells excluded).
Spelling policy:: Hebrew-script spellings kept exactly as published (no niqqud). Release text, verbatim: « השמות עברו תהליך של טיוב שבו אוחדו שמות זהים שנכתבו באיות שונה תחת האיות הנפוץ יותר. למשל השמות אביגייל ו-אביגיל נספרו כ-אביגיל. אך השמות יונתן ויהונתן נספרו בנפרד כיוון שהם נהגים בצורה שונה. » « שמות שונים הנכתבים בצורה זהה (ללא סימני ניקוד), מופיעים כשם אחד » (CBS merges identical names written in different spellings under the more common spelling; different names written identically without niqqud appear as one name). « אם השם הפרטי מופיע כשתי מילים מחוברות במקף (למשל: מנחם-מנדל), הוא ייחשב כשם אחד. » Sex: sheets labelled בנות (girls)→F, בנים (boys)→M. Transliteration is a separate, later step.
Licence:: CBS-Open-License (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Open License; commercial use permitted)
Release:: 2025-12-08 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 37b9783487d5de49…
Landing page:: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/Pages/2025/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99-2024.aspx

One dataset per CBS population group (Jews, Muslims, Christian Arabs, Druze); groups are presented exactly as CBS labels them, must never be summed, and say nothing about any individual's identity. The archived 'Other' group (1985-2021) is not in this workbook.
Measurement: current first names in the Population Register (April 2025) of persons born in each year — not names given at birth; names can change and older cohorts reflect today's register (whether persons born abroad, deceased or emigrated are included is not stated in the text read). 'resident-population' is the closest MeasurementType; no exact type exists.
Spellings are CBS-harmonised (variant spellings merged); homographs without niqqud are merged. Spellings are kept verbatim, including one published with a leading apostrophe ("'ג'ורג'").
The 'סך הכל' (total) column is not imported: for names with no '..' cells it is larger than the sum of the 1949-2024 cells, and its scope is not stated.
'..' cells are withheld values of unstated meaning (see suppressionRule).
2024 is incomplete: 2.2% of persons born in 2024 had no name in the register by April 2025 (release text).
No denominators imported.

Israel CBS — current first names of persons born 1949-2024, population group: Jews (יהודים) (release 391/2025, table 1)

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) · Israel · 1949–2024 · status: imported · 305,700 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Workbook title, verbatim: « השמות הנוכחיים של ילידי 1949-2024 לפי מין וקבוצת אוכלוסייה, שם פרטי ושנת לידה » (current names of persons born 1949-2024 by sex and population group, first name and year of birth). Population group as labelled by CBS: Jews (יהודים); sheets « בנות יהודיות » and « בנים יהודים ». Release text (11_25_391b.pdf), verbatim: « הנתונים בהודעה זו מבוססים על קובץ מרשם האוכלוסין המעודכן לאפריל 2025. » « שמותיהם של חלק מילידי 2024 (2.2% מכלל האוכלוסייה ו-2.6% מהיהודים) לא הופיעו במרשם התושבים עד למועד הפקת הקובץ (אפריל 2025). » « הנתונים שבהודעה מתייחסים לשם הפרטי הראשון אלא אם כן נכתב אחרת. » « הדת נקבעה בהתאם למופיע במרשם האוכלוסין. » (Population Register file as of April 2025; first given name; religion as recorded in the Population Register.) Counts are current names in the register of persons born in each year, not names registered at birth.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). Thousands separators in the total column are removed when parsing.
Suppression:: Cells published as '..' are kept as valueStatus "suppressed" with count null (never zero). The meaning of '..' and the inclusion threshold are not stated in the workbook or in the release text read (11_25_391b.pdf); every listed name has a total of at least 5 across the period (see notes). Cells published as 0 are not emitted: for a name listed in this dataset, a missing year means CBS published 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in table 1; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex within this population group over published counts only ('..' cells excluded).
Spelling policy:: Hebrew-script spellings kept exactly as published (no niqqud). Release text, verbatim: « השמות עברו תהליך של טיוב שבו אוחדו שמות זהים שנכתבו באיות שונה תחת האיות הנפוץ יותר. למשל השמות אביגייל ו-אביגיל נספרו כ-אביגיל. אך השמות יונתן ויהונתן נספרו בנפרד כיוון שהם נהגים בצורה שונה. » « שמות שונים הנכתבים בצורה זהה (ללא סימני ניקוד), מופיעים כשם אחד » (CBS merges identical names written in different spellings under the more common spelling; different names written identically without niqqud appear as one name). « אם השם הפרטי מופיע כשתי מילים מחוברות במקף (למשל: מנחם-מנדל), הוא ייחשב כשם אחד. » Sex: sheets labelled בנות (girls)→F, בנים (boys)→M. Transliteration is a separate, later step.
Licence:: CBS-Open-License (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Open License; commercial use permitted)
Release:: 2025-12-08 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 37b9783487d5de49…
Landing page:: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/Pages/2025/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99-2024.aspx

One dataset per CBS population group (Jews, Muslims, Christian Arabs, Druze); groups are presented exactly as CBS labels them, must never be summed, and say nothing about any individual's identity. The archived 'Other' group (1985-2021) is not in this workbook.
Measurement: current first names in the Population Register (April 2025) of persons born in each year — not names given at birth; names can change and older cohorts reflect today's register (whether persons born abroad, deceased or emigrated are included is not stated in the text read). 'resident-population' is the closest MeasurementType; no exact type exists.
Spellings are CBS-harmonised (variant spellings merged); homographs without niqqud are merged. Spellings are kept verbatim, including one published with a leading apostrophe ("'ג'ורג'").
The 'סך הכל' (total) column is not imported: for names with no '..' cells it is larger than the sum of the 1949-2024 cells, and its scope is not stated.
'..' cells are withheld values of unstated meaning (see suppressionRule).
2024 is incomplete: 2.2% of persons born in 2024 had no name in the register by April 2025 (release text).
No denominators imported.

Israel CBS — current first names of persons born 1949-2024, population group: Muslims (מוסלמים) (release 391/2025, table 1)

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) · Israel · 1949–2024 · status: imported · 171,030 rows parsed, 1 rejected

Universe:: Workbook title, verbatim: « השמות הנוכחיים של ילידי 1949-2024 לפי מין וקבוצת אוכלוסייה, שם פרטי ושנת לידה » (current names of persons born 1949-2024 by sex and population group, first name and year of birth). Population group as labelled by CBS: Muslims (מוסלמים); sheets « בנות מוסלמיות » and « בנים מוסלמים ». Release text (11_25_391b.pdf), verbatim: « הנתונים בהודעה זו מבוססים על קובץ מרשם האוכלוסין המעודכן לאפריל 2025. » « שמותיהם של חלק מילידי 2024 (2.2% מכלל האוכלוסייה ו-2.6% מהיהודים) לא הופיעו במרשם התושבים עד למועד הפקת הקובץ (אפריל 2025). » « הנתונים שבהודעה מתייחסים לשם הפרטי הראשון אלא אם כן נכתב אחרת. » « הדת נקבעה בהתאם למופיע במרשם האוכלוסין. » (Population Register file as of April 2025; first given name; religion as recorded in the Population Register.) Counts are current names in the register of persons born in each year, not names registered at birth.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). Thousands separators in the total column are removed when parsing.
Suppression:: Cells published as '..' are kept as valueStatus "suppressed" with count null (never zero). The meaning of '..' and the inclusion threshold are not stated in the workbook or in the release text read (11_25_391b.pdf); every listed name has a total of at least 5 across the period (see notes). Cells published as 0 are not emitted: for a name listed in this dataset, a missing year means CBS published 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in table 1; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex within this population group over published counts only ('..' cells excluded).
Spelling policy:: Hebrew-script spellings kept exactly as published (no niqqud). Release text, verbatim: « השמות עברו תהליך של טיוב שבו אוחדו שמות זהים שנכתבו באיות שונה תחת האיות הנפוץ יותר. למשל השמות אביגייל ו-אביגיל נספרו כ-אביגיל. אך השמות יונתן ויהונתן נספרו בנפרד כיוון שהם נהגים בצורה שונה. » « שמות שונים הנכתבים בצורה זהה (ללא סימני ניקוד), מופיעים כשם אחד » (CBS merges identical names written in different spellings under the more common spelling; different names written identically without niqqud appear as one name). « אם השם הפרטי מופיע כשתי מילים מחוברות במקף (למשל: מנחם-מנדל), הוא ייחשב כשם אחד. » Sex: sheets labelled בנות (girls)→F, בנים (boys)→M. Transliteration is a separate, later step.
Licence:: CBS-Open-License (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Open License; commercial use permitted)
Release:: 2025-12-08 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 37b9783487d5de49…
Landing page:: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/Pages/2025/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99-2024.aspx

One dataset per CBS population group (Jews, Muslims, Christian Arabs, Druze); groups are presented exactly as CBS labels them, must never be summed, and say nothing about any individual's identity. The archived 'Other' group (1985-2021) is not in this workbook.
Measurement: current first names in the Population Register (April 2025) of persons born in each year — not names given at birth; names can change and older cohorts reflect today's register (whether persons born abroad, deceased or emigrated are included is not stated in the text read). 'resident-population' is the closest MeasurementType; no exact type exists.
Spellings are CBS-harmonised (variant spellings merged); homographs without niqqud are merged. Spellings are kept verbatim, including one published with a leading apostrophe ("'ג'ורג'").
The 'סך הכל' (total) column is not imported: for names with no '..' cells it is larger than the sum of the 1949-2024 cells, and its scope is not stated.
'..' cells are withheld values of unstated meaning (see suppressionRule).
2024 is incomplete: 2.2% of persons born in 2024 had no name in the register by April 2025 (release text).
No denominators imported.

Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025

Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · Ireland · 1964–2025 · status: imported · 82,952 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: First given names on Irish birth registrations; CSO tables VSA50 (boys) and VSA60 (girls). From 2017, births registered during the calendar year.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: CSO publishes names with three or more occurrences. Null cells are not emitted; absence is unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: Published ranks from VSA50C02 and VSA60C02 retained unchanged, including ties.
Spelling policy:: Published Unicode names retained exactly, including accents and initial punctuation. Accents are distinguished in the CSO series from 2018.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://data.cso.ie/table/VSA50

Accent handling changed in 2018; pre-2018 and later spellings are not necessarily directly comparable.
Additional forenames are not counted. No denominator is inferred from the published name rows.

Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland (VSA50 and VSA60), CC BY 4.0. Reformatted by NameStoria; counts and published ranks unchanged.

New Zealand — DIA published top 100 baby first names per sex, 1954–2025

Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), New Zealand · New Zealand · 1954–2025 · status: imported · 14,398 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: DIA's published annual top-100 boys' and girls' first-name tables, 1954–2025. Published PDF snapshot, January 2026; not the separate full historical spreadsheet release.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Published top 100 per sex/year only. Names outside these lists remain unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: Printed PDF row ranks 1–100 retained unchanged, including distinct sequential positions when counts are equal. Not recomputed as competition ranks.
Spelling policy:: Published spellings retained, including accents and compounds. Boys' and girls' tables remain separate. Names and counts are paired by PDF coordinates; clipped repeated columns require a complete counterpart on the next page.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.dia.govt.nz/press.nsf/d77da9b523f12931cc256ac5000d19b6/f07609fb62889341cc258e310039e07a!OpenDocument

A truncated top-100 PDF series, not the full 1900-onwards spreadsheet. These releases can reflect different publication snapshots.
The source does not supply compatible denominators in the imported tables; none inferred from the top-100 sums.
January 2026 PDF snapshot; later historical spreadsheet revisions are not silently merged into it.
The boys table prints Michael twice in 1988 (rank 2: 741; rank 100: 52). Both conflicting cells are excluded without guessing a correction. See data/manifests/stats3-nz-source-exclusions.json; absence remains unknown.

Source: Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand, Top 100 boys' names and Top 100 girls' names, 1954–2025, CC BY 4.0. PDF table coordinates extracted by NameStoria; published names, counts and printed ranks retained.

Denmark — grouped top baby names, 1985–2025

Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) · Denmark · 1985–2025 · status: imported · 3,700 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Statistics Denmark's top 25 girls' and boys' first-name spelling groups in 1985–1992 and top 50 from 1993 per birth year, based on CPR registrations. Before 1996, Danish citizens only.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Exact numbers are not shown for names held by fewer than three persons. These top lists are truncated; absence is not zero.
Ranking:: Published top-25 (1985–1992) and top-50 (1993 onwards) ranks retained unchanged.
Spelling policy:: Different spellings are grouped together and shown using the most common spelling. Every observation is marked grouped; counts must not be interpreted as individual-spelling totals.
Licence:: Statistics Denmark attribution terms (commercial and non-commercial reuse permitted)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-til-nyfoedte

Top 25 per sex in 1985–1992 and top 50 from 1993; not an exhaustive national name list.
Grouped spelling counts differ from the ungrouped name-search series.
Before 1996, only Danish citizens are covered. No denominators imported.

Source: Statistics Denmark. Published spelling groups, counts and ranks retained; tables reformatted by NameStoria.

Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03

Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · Finland · 2026–2026 · status: imported · 17,139 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Current first given names of living Finnish citizens residing in Finland or abroad in the Population Information System as of 2026-08-03; extracted 2026-08-04. Foreign citizens, deceased persons and former names excluded. Only the first-name sheets are used.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Names occurring fewer than five times are omitted. Absence is unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Unicode spelling and accents retained exactly; first names are not combined with all-forename or middle-name sheets.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: 2026-08-04 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.avoindata.fi/data/en_GB/dataset/none

Citizenship-based population snapshot includes citizens living abroad and excludes foreign citizens living in Finland. It is not the full resident population or a newborn ranking.
resident-population is the nearest available measurement category; the exact citizenship and geography scope is stated in the title and universe.
The year is the register snapshot year, not a birth year. No denominators imported.

Source: DVV / Population Information System, extracted 2026-08-04, CC BY 4.0. NameStoria reformats first-name counts and computes ranks.

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · Switzerland · 2000–2025 · status: imported · 102,183 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking:: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.
Spelling policy:: Name labels resolved from each flow's official first-name codelist and retained exactly, with Unicode accents. No language-region counts combined.
Licence:: opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/weibliche-vornamen-der-neugeborenen-nach-sprachregion-und-kanton1

Coverage is the published first-name codelist, not an exhaustive registry of every spelling.
Only national geography 8100 is imported. No denominators imported.
Resource rights verified 2026-10-15 from official CKAN metadata and terms through web retrieval; see data/manifests/stats3-swiss-rights.json. Dataset-level licence is null but resource rights specify OPEN-BY.

Source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Female and male first names of newborns by language region and canton (BEVNAT), SDMX flows DF_BEVNAT_PRENOMS_1 and _2. https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/weibliche-vornamen-der-neugeborenen-nach-sprachregion-und-kanton1 . Tables reformatted by NameStoria; published counts and ranks retained.

Spain — national top 100 newborn names per sex, 2002–2024

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · Spain · 2002–2024 · status: imported · 4,600 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Names of newborns from INE birth statistics, national TOTAL sheet only. Regional tables are not added to national counts.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only the published top 100 names per sex and year are covered; names outside the lists remain unknown.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Published uppercase Unicode spellings retained exactly, including compound names. No accents are added or inferred.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: 2025-11-19 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177009&menu=resultados&idp=1254735572981

A truncated top-100 series, not a complete list of registered names.
Ranks are computed from the published counts, preserving ties, rather than treating alphabetical order within ties as distinct ranks.
Published national sex/year TOTAL rows provide compatible denominators; no totals inferred from name rows.

Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es. Latest birth table: 2024; catalogue update 2025-11-19. CC BY 4.0. Counts retained; ranks computed by NameStoria.

Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · Spain · 2025–2025 · status: imported · 63,440 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Annual population census at 2025-01-01; all published national first-name frequencies of at least 20 residents. A snapshot of current residents, not historical birth registrations.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only names held by at least 20 residents nationally are published. Missing names remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Published uppercase Unicode spellings retained exactly, including compound names. No accents are added or inferred.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: 2026-04-23 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177009&menu=resultados&idp=1254735572981

The observation year is the census snapshot year. These counts must not be mixed with annual newborn totals.
The workbook's Orden column is a row order; competition ranks are computed from counts so ties share a rank.
Average ages are not imported. No population denominator imported.

Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es. Updated 2026-04-23; reference date 2025-01-01. CC BY 4.0. Counts retained; ranks computed by NameStoria.

Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national

Insee (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques) · France (France métropolitaine et départements-régions d'outre-mer; avant 2012 France hors Mayotte) · 1900–2025 · status: imported · 724,645 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: First given name (« PRENOM : premier prénom ») of persons registered at birth in the French civil register, as held in the RNIPP. Page wording: « prénoms attribués aux enfants nés en France entre 1900 et 2025 (les données avant 2012 ne concernent que France hors Mayotte) »; « personnes nées en France métropolitaine et dans les départements-régions d'outre-mer ». Birth observations, not a living-population count.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: « VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Suppression:: Publication threshold (landing page): « Un prénom est diffusé s'il a été attribué au moins 3 fois à des personnes de sexe féminin ou à des personnes de sexe masculin : au niveau national : pour une année de naissance donnée [...] Les prénoms ne remplissant pas ces conditions ne sont pas diffusés. [...] L'absence d'un croisement sexe x prénom x année x zone géographique ne signifie donc pas forcément qu'il n'existe pas dans les données de l'état civil, mais qu'il comporte deux occurrences ou moins. » A missing sex/name/year row therefore means ≤ 2 occurrences, never 0. This release contains no grouped rare-names row (older releases used `_PRENOMS_RARES`); the spelling RARES present in the file is a real name (« le prénom d'origine roumaine « Rareș » apparaît en tant que « RARES » »).
Ranking:: « RANG : rang calculé à partir des effectifs non arrondis selon le sexe, l'année de naissance et la zone géographique ; en cas d'égalité sur les valeurs non arrondies, un tri aléatoire est appliqué. » Ranks are published by INSEE from unrounded counts and are preserved verbatim; NameStoria never recomputes them from the rounded counts. Ranks are unique within a sex/year (random tie-break by INSEE).
Spelling policy:: Uppercase spellings as published. « Ils comportent, dans la limite des contraintes techniques de saisie ou de traitement de données, les accents et apostrophes. » « Les prénoms diffusés font l'objet de corrections élémentaires : suppression du prénom ANONYME ou d'espaces incongrus (par exemple, C LAUDINE). » « L'alphabet utilisé pour l'écriture des prénoms doit être celui qui sert à l'écriture du français [...] (par exemple, le « ñ » ou le « ș ») » are not allowed. Compound-name rule: a one-letter first item (or a two-letter first item never seen alone since 1900) is joined with the next item (e.g. N DEYE). Sex codes mapped by NameStoria: SEXE 1 → M, 2 → F.
Licence:: LO-2.0
Release:: 2026-07-16 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Checksum:: 4c3662bbc75a021a…
Landing page:: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8595130?sommaire=8595113

Rates per million not computed: no compatible denominator imported (the file carries no total-births figure; INSEE publishes births separately in « Les naissances en 2025 et en séries longues », not imported or verified here).
Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5; small counts (5, 10) are therefore ±2 of the true value and the sum of published counts is not the number of births.
Names given ≤ 2 times in a sex/year are not published; absence is not zero.
Years before 2012 exclude Mayotte (« les données avant 2012 ne concernent que France hors Mayotte »). Geography is harmonised to the latest vintage (« diffusées selon la géographie du dernier millésime »); for the national file the page notes that Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin (collectivités d'outre-mer since 2007) are no longer included with Guadeloupe.
« L'exhaustivité des prénoms n'est pas garantie sur toute la période, notamment pour les années antérieures à 1946. » Residual entry errors exist; some names may reflect post-birth name changes. 1900–2021 counts are from the RNIPP as at 31/12/2024, 2022–2025 counts as at 31/12/2025.
Only the first given name is counted; compound-name detection follows INSEE's rule and may split or join names imperfectly.
Only Latin-script manifest names were matched; matching is NFC-uppercase with an accent-insensitive fallback and is recorded per spelling in the fixture.
Top lists cover 34 years (5-year steps 1900–2025 plus each of the last ten years) at top-100 per sex; they are not present for other years.
The licence (Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0, Etalab) is stated on the INSEE site-wide legal notice, not on the dataset page itself.

Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, édition 2026 (données mises à jour le 16/07/2026)

Italy — Istat published top 50 registered newborn names per sex, 1999–2024

Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat) · Italy · 1999–2024 · status: imported · 2,600 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Names of newborn children entered in Italian population registers, Istat survey Iscritti in anagrafe per nascita. The counter's published national top 50 per sex and year; not every registered name.
Measurement:: births-registered-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding. API percentages are not imported or inverted into denominators.
Suppression:: The public counter displays positive counts below five as <5. This import contains only the top-50 lists, whose counts are checked to be at least five. Names outside the selected lists remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Exact uppercase publisher spellings retained, including accents, compounds and apostrophes. Apostrophe spellings such as NICOLO' are not silently changed to accented forms. Catalogue links use NFC uppercase matching without removing accents.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.istat.it/dati/calcolatori/contanomi/

National top 50 per sex/year only, rather than the full registry or every name-search result.
Istat states that these names are processed for public information and that writing/transcription errors or name/sex incompatibilities are not statistically corrected. Labels remain source-reported.
The JSONP wrapper is parsed as JSON without executing source code. Queries use the public counter's own year and top-50 controls.
No compatible denominators are supplied in these responses; none are inferred from percentages or top-list sums.

Source: Istat, Conta nomi, Iscritti in anagrafe per nascita. CC BY 4.0. NameStoria retains published names and counts and computes competition ranks from them.

Hungary — KSH published top 50 newborn first names, 2000 and 2025

Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), from Ministry of Interior register data · Hungary · 2000–2025 · status: imported · 199 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: The two birth years 2000 and 2025 in KSH's published top-50 boys' and girls' name infographic. The 2025 first-position counts were cross-checked against the linked ministry registry workbook; one conflicting count is excluded.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only the published top 50 for two birth years are covered. Other names, intervening years and the excluded conflicting count remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: Printed KSH positions 1–50 retained, including separate sequential ranks when counts are tied. Not recomputed as competition ranks.
Spelling policy:: Accents and distinct Hungarian spellings retained. PDF presentation ligatures (e.g. ﬁ) are expanded to letters; Szofia, Szófia and Zsófia remain distinct names.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.ksh.hu/nepesseg-es-nepmozgalom

Only 2000 and 2025 are imported, not a continuous 2000–2025 series.
Dominik at boys rank 1 in 2025 is excluded: KSH prints 1,267 while the linked registry workbook prints 1,019. No correction or sum is guessed. See data/manifests/stats3-hungary-source-conflict.json. Other 99 KSH 2025 counts agree with the first-position registry column.
The source licence covers KSH's published infographic. The ministry workbook is used for validation only; no separate ministry dataset is republished under an assumed KSH licence.
No compatible denominators imported; no totals inferred from the truncated name lists.

Source: Központi Statisztikai Hivatal (KSH), Az 50 leggyakrabban választott fiú és lány utónév a 2000-ben és 2025-ben született gyermekek körében, based on Belügyminisztérium register data. CC BY 4.0. NameStoria extracts table columns, expands PDF font ligatures and excludes one documented conflicting count.

NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)

Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · Northern Ireland · 1997–2025 · status: imported · 100,417 rows parsed, 51 rejected

Universe:: Definitions sheet, verbatim: « Date of Registration and Date of Occurrence » « These results are based on an analysis of the first names recorded on births registered within the given registration year with the General Register Office, Northern Ireland. » « The analysis is carried out on births to both resident and non-resident mothers registered within the given time period. » Cover sheet: « Data presented in this spreadsheet is final and details first forenames for births registered in Northern Ireland during 2025. »
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: Definitions sheet, verbatim: « Totals for names with a count of less than 3 have been supressed. » « - indicates a value of zero whereas .. indicates a value of less than 3 » Names published as '..' are emitted with valueStatus "suppressed" and count null; '-' (zero) cells are not emitted, so a year absent for a listed name means NISRA published zero for it, and a name absent from the list entirely was not registered in 1997-2025.
Ranking:: Rank as published in Tables 1/2 (and cross-checked against Tables 3/4), preserved verbatim; never recomputed. Definitions sheet: « Names with equal counts have been placed in alphabetical order. » Tied counts share a rank in the published tables (see notes for the observed pattern).
Spelling policy:: Exact published spelling (title case). Definitions sheet, verbatim: « Different spellings of a name have been treated as separate names, e.g. Amelia and Amelija. » « Names containing accents have been recorded without those accents, e.g. Séan is recorded as Sean. » NISRA therefore strips accents. Sex codes: Tables 1/3 (boys)→M, Tables 2/4 (girls)→F.
Licence:: OGL-UK-3.0
Release:: 2026-04-16 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: e6f3058b2fd8de65…
Landing page:: https://www.nisra.gov.uk/publications/baby-names-2025

Northern Ireland only (region GB-NIR). This is not the United Kingdom; England and Wales (ONS) and Scotland (NRS) publish separately and must never be summed with this dataset.
Year is the year of registration, not of birth.
Accents are removed by NISRA (Séan recorded as Sean).
Names with a count below 3 appear as '..' (suppressed, count unknown); they are never zero.
No denominators imported (the bulletin tables were not parsed).

Source: NISRA : Website: www.nisra.gov.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0)

National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025

National Records of Scotland (NRS) · Scotland · 1974–2025 · status: imported · 74,331 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: metadata.csv (zip), verbatim: « Baby name statistics are compiled from first names recorded in the ‘child’s forename(s)’ part of the entry of the registration of the birth » « The statistics are based only on births which were registered up to 9 April 2026. » « Baby name statistics refer to the births registered in Scotland. » « All births which occur in Scotland should be registered in Scotland, even if the people involved are residents of other countries. » « These figures do not include any names that were given to babies who were stillborn. » « Baby names statistics do not include names given to babies of Scottish residents where the birth occurred outwith Scotland. » Publication date: « The data table was originally published at 9.30am on Tuesday 26 May 2026 »
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: metadata.csv, verbatim: « Names with a count of 2 or less in total within Scotland have been suppressed (an exemption applies under Section 38 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002) in order to protect the confidentiality of individuals. » Methodology PDF: « As of 2024, we have reviewed the baby names methodology and no longer release names given to fewer than three babies. » Absence of a name means 2 or fewer (or not registered by the cut-off), never 0.
Ranking:: Rank as published in the Rank column, preserved verbatim; never recomputed. metadata.csv: « Births where the name of the baby is not stated are excluded from all the ranks. » Tie handling is not described in words; the notes record the observed pattern.
Spelling policy:: Exact published spelling (title case as produced by NRS). metadata.csv, verbatim: « The statistics are based on the exact spelling of the name given on the birth certificate. » « Accents were ignored, so (for example) ‘Chloe’, ‘Chloé’, ‘Chloë’. ‘Chloè’ and ‘Chlöe’ are all counted as the same name: ‘Chloe’. » (metadata.csv is Windows-1252 encoded and decoded as such). NRS therefore strips accents. Methodology: names are processed in upper case and converted to 'proper case', so e.g. McKenzie appears as 'Mckenzie'; only the first space-delimited word of the forename field is counted (hyphenated names count as one). Sex codes: Boy→M, Girl→F.
Licence:: OGL-UK-3.0
Release:: 2026-05-26 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: e1dd892b576f75cc…
Landing page:: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications/babies-first-names-2025/

Scotland only (region GB-SCT). This is not the United Kingdom; England and Wales (ONS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) publish separately and must never be summed with this dataset.
Accents are ignored by NRS (Chloé counted as Chloe); case is reconstructed by NRS ('Mckenzie').
Only the first space-delimited word of the forename field is counted ('Da Silva' → 'Da'); the full lists may include entries that are not names.
Forename field truncated at 15 characters for 1974-1995 registrations and 30 characters for 1996-2016 (methodology).
Names given to fewer than three babies are not published (from the 2024 methodology review, applied to the whole 1974-2025 list in this release).
Counts relate to births registered by the spring cut-off; late registrations are not included.
Denominators are Table 8 'All babies', which NRS bases on the full list including names given to fewer than three babies (note 6).

NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages — Popular Baby Names (annual top 100 per gender), 1952-2025

NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (via data.nsw.gov.au) · New South Wales · 1952–2025 · status: imported · 14,801 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: 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. »
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: 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.
Licence:: CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution; version not stated on the record)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 1335e7311868520e…
Landing page:: https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/popular-baby-names-from-1952

New South Wales only (region AU-NSW); not Australia.
Top-100 lists only: names outside the annual top 100 are not published, so long-tail trends are not available.
Lists are 'based on the names registered in the previous calendar year' (record description): the year is a registration year.
Licence version not stated on the record (CC BY, unversioned).
No denominators published.

Source: NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Popular Baby Names 1952 to 2025, data.nsw.gov.au, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution

Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)

Office for National Statistics (ONS) · England and Wales · 2025–2025 · status: imported · 14,200 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Cover sheet, verbatim: « Baby name statistics are compiled from first names recorded when live births are registered in England and Wales as part of civil registration, a legal requirement. » « The statistics are based only on live births which occurred in the calendar year, as there is no public register of stillbirths. » « Babies born in England and Wales to women whose usual residence is outside England and Wales are included in the statistics for England and Wales as a whole, but excluded from any sub-division of England and Wales. » « The statistics are based on the exact spelling of the name given on the birth certificate. Grouping names with similar pronunciation would change the rankings. Exact names are given so users can group if they wish. » Table 6 counts exclude births where the mother's usual residence was outside England and Wales and where the name was not stated (note 3).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated on the workbook; counts are published as integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: Note 6, verbatim: « Names with a count of 2 or less have been redacted using S40 of the Freedom of Information Act in order to protect the confidentiality of individuals. » Absence of a name therefore means a count of 2 or less (or not stated), never 0.
Ranking:: Rank as published in Table 6 (and Table 1 for the top 100), preserved verbatim; NameStoria never recomputes ranks. Tie handling observed in this edition: tied counts share a rank and the following rank is skipped (e.g. 59, 59, 61). The published ranks are not reconstructible from the listed counts alone: the notes diagnostic shows that from a certain rank downward each published rank is one greater than a competition rank computed from Table 6, which indicates ONS ranked a list containing at least one name not shown in Table 6 (reason not stated on the sheet). Note 1, verbatim: « These rankings have been produced using the exact spelling of the name given at birth registration. Similar names with different spellings have been counted separately. »
Spelling policy:: Exact spelling as given on the birth certificate (note 1; cover sheet: « The statistics are based on the exact spelling of the name given on the birth certificate. Grouping names with similar pronunciation would change the rankings. »). Title-case ASCII spellings as published; hyphenated compound names appear as single spellings. Sex codes mapped by NameStoria: boys workbook → M, girls workbook → F.
Licence:: OGL-UK-3.0
Release:: 2026-07-09 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Checksum:: 268af7c74e917211…
Landing page:: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsboys

England and Wales only (region GB-EAW). This is not the United Kingdom: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not included.
Single-year edition (2025); earlier editions have different workbook layouts and are not imported.
Rates per million not computed: no compatible denominator imported (Table 4/5 'All Names' totals exist but include births where the name was not stated (note 4) and use a different exclusion rule from Table 6; not imported or verified).
Names with a count of 2 or less are redacted (note 6); absence is not zero.
Births to mothers usually resident outside England and Wales are included in the England and Wales totals but excluded from sub-national tables (cover sheet); sub-national tables (England, Wales, regions, areas, month, mother's age) are not imported and must never be summed.
Only Latin-script manifest names were matched; matching is case-insensitive on NFC with an accent-insensitive fallback and is recorded per spelling in the fixture.
Top lists: top 100 per sex for 2025 only.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013

Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · Ontario · 1917–2013 · status: imported · 157,816 rows parsed, 2 rejected

Universe:: First names from births registered in Ontario, male and female files. Historical archive only; not Canada's national population.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer frequencies retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Official dataset description: Counts of fewer than 5 names were suppressed for privacy. Absent observations are not zeros.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in these CSVs; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips.
Spelling policy:: Uppercase publisher spellings retained, including diacritics. Male file decoded as Windows-1252; female file uses the observed CP850 accented characters. Sex follows the source file.
Licence:: OGL-ON-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/ontario-top-baby-names-male

Historical coverage ends in 2013. The current 1913/1917–2024 files still return HTTP 504; this archive is not presented as the latest release.
Two malformed female source rows have letters displaced into the frequency column and are rejected rather than reconstructed.
No compatible denominators imported.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Source: Government of Ontario.

Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)

Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · Ontario · 1913–2023 · status: imported · 177,068 rows parsed, 2 rejected

Universe:: First names from births registered in Ontario; female records start in 1913 and male records in 1917. Not national Canadian statistics.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Integer published frequencies retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Counts of fewer than 5 names were suppressed for privacy. Missing observations are unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: The redistribution has no rank column; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips.
Spelling policy:: The redistribution uses title case and trims publisher padding. Those spellings are retained as provided. Historical validation uses uppercase NFC plus trimming only; no accents are removed and no sex categories are inferred.
Licence:: OGL-ON-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 5029a039ef2f94f7…
Landing page:: https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/ontario-top-baby-names-male

Snapshot ends in 2023; it is not the currently unavailable 2024 release.
The 173,873 historical observations through 2022 were checked against unmodified publisher-file copies, with no count differences or missing keys. The additional 2023 rows rely on the redistributor's source attribution.
Two historical observations spell a name as Lo¤C; they match the reference but are rejected as corrupted spellings, without guessing a replacement.
Neither mirror can be verified byte-for-byte against the currently unavailable Ontario origin. No compatible denominators imported.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Redistribution: helloharun/Ontario-Baby-First-Names-Analysis; historical validation files: 5HT2C/ontario-baby-name-parser.

Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce — first given names of children, PESEL register, 2000-2025 (national)

Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (Ministry of Digital Affairs), Poland — PESEL register; published on dane.gov.pl · Poland · 2000–2025 · status: imported · 35,598 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Dataset description, verbatim: « Lista imion (pierwszych i drugich) nadawanych dzieciom w Polsce z podziałem na płeć. Przedmiotowe dane zostały opracowane na podstawie informacji zgromadzonych w rejestrze PESEL. Do roku 2012 imiona z liczbą wystąpień poniżej 5 nie były umieszczane na liście, od 2013 r. granicą tą jest liczba 2. » Only the first given name ("imię pierwsze") tables at national level are imported; the 2020 file title reads « Wykaz imion męskich nadanych dzieciom urodzonym w 2020 r. wg pola imię pierwsze, statystyka ogólna dla całej Polski » (children born in the year, first-name field, whole of Poland).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated by the publisher; counts are published as integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: Verbatim from the dataset description: « Do roku 2012 imiona z liczbą wystąpień poniżej 5 nie były umieszczane na liście, od 2013 r. granicą tą jest liczba 2. » (Until 2012 names with fewer than 5 occurrences were not listed; from 2013 the limit is 2.) Absence of a name is therefore 'below threshold', never 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex over the listed names only.
Spelling policy:: Spellings are kept exactly as published: the PESEL tables publish names in upper case with Polish diacritics preserved (e.g. MIKOŁAJ, ŁUKASZ). The publisher does not document any further normalisation. Sex codes mapped by NameStoria: combined file M→M, K (kobieta)→F; annual files MĘŻCZYZNA→M, KOBIETA→F.
Licence:: CC0-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 471d8ff99756f303…
Landing page:: https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/219,imiona-nadawane-dzieciom-w-polsce

First given names only; second names (imię drugie) are published separately and not imported.
National level only; voivodeship and registry-office tables exist and are not imported (and must never be summed with this table).
Threshold change in 2013 (5 → 2): the long tail is not comparable across 2012/2013.
2000-2019 come from the combined multi-year file; 2020 onward from the annual files of the year (the latest annual files, published in January of the following year). The 2019 annual files are used only for a cross-check (see notes).
The register can be updated after publication; each annual file is a snapshot at its publication date.
No denominators are published with these tables; rates are not computed.

Źródło: Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, rejestr PESEL, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0; attribution not required, given as courtesy)

South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017

Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · South Australia · 1944–2017 · status: imported · 229,958 rows parsed, 2,067 rejected

Universe:: Dataset record, verbatim: « List of male and female baby names in South Australia from 1944 to 2024. The annual data for baby names is published January/February each year. » Files used: the 1944-2013 archive (female_/male_cyYYYY_top.csv) and the 2014-2017 per-year CSVs (2016: the 'amended' files).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; amounts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: No threshold is stated by the publisher. The lists include names with an Amount of 1 (see notes), i.e. no minimum-count suppression is visible; whether the lists are complete is not stated (the linked metadata document returned an error). Absence of a name is 'not listed', never zero.
Ranking:: Position as published, preserved verbatim; never recomputed. A leading '=' marks a tie (stored as the number after '='); see notes for the observed pattern.
Spelling policy:: Spellings kept as published: upper case; diacritics appear only where the publisher kept them (see the character inventory in notes; some files are Windows-1252 encoded and are decoded as such). Whether the publisher strips diacritics is not stated. Registration artefacts in the early lists (e.g. '(NOT', 'J;AMI', '"BABY"') are rejected and logged, not imported. Sex codes from the file names/titles: male→M, female→F.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: b8f80517145f7952…
Landing page:: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/popular-baby-names

South Australia only (region AU-SA); not Australia.
Covers 1944-2017 only; from 2018 the publisher releases top-100 lists, which are a separate dataset (sa-au-top100-*) and must not be read as a continuation of this one.
2029 rows repeat a spelling already listed for the same year and sex with a different amount and position (e.g. JOHN 1944: 477 at position 1 and 2 at position =192). The publisher does not explain this (possibly distinct registered forms collapsed by upper-casing or diacritic loss). Only the first, highest-amount row is imported; the others are in the rejected log, so these spellings' counts may be understated.
Placeholder entries published as names (e.g. BABY, UNNAMED) are kept as published; they are not given names.
Whether years are birth or registration years is not stated on the record.
No denominators imported (TOTAL footer rows appear only in some files; see notes).

Source: Attorney-General's Department, South Australia — Popular Baby Names, data.sa.gov.au, licensed under CC BY 4.0

South Australia — Top 100 Baby Names per sex, 2018-2025

Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · South Australia · 2018–2025 · status: imported · 1,606 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Dataset record, verbatim: « List of male and female baby names in South Australia from 1944 to 2024. The annual data for baby names is published January/February each year. » Files used: 'Top 100 Baby Names YYYY - Male/Female' (2018 onward).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; amounts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: Only the top 100 per sex is published (ties can extend or shorten the list around position 100). A name absent from a year's list was not in that year's top 100: count unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: Position as published, preserved verbatim; never recomputed. A leading '=' marks a tie (stored as the number after '='); see notes for the observed pattern.
Spelling policy:: Spellings kept as published: upper case; diacritics appear only where the publisher kept them (see the character inventory in notes; some files are Windows-1252 encoded and are decoded as such). Whether the publisher strips diacritics is not stated. Registration artefacts in the early lists (e.g. '(NOT', 'J;AMI', '"BABY"') are rejected and logged, not imported. Sex codes from the file names/titles: male→M, female→F.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 6bc120c5ca245a54…
Landing page:: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/popular-baby-names

South Australia only (region AU-SA); not Australia.
Top-100 lists only; for 1944-2017 see the separate full-list dataset (sa-au-1944-2017).
Placeholder entries published as names (e.g. BABY, UNNAMED) are kept as published; they are not given names.
Whether years are birth or registration years is not stated on the record.
No denominators imported (TOTAL footer rows appear only in some files; see notes).

Source: Attorney-General's Department, South Australia — Popular Baby Names, data.sa.gov.au, licensed under CC BY 4.0

Sweden — grouped top 100 newborn calling names, 1998–2022

Statistics Sweden (SCB) · Sweden · 1998–2022 · status: imported · 5,014 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Newborns by naming year and their calling name (tilltalsnamn), SCB TAB619/BE0001T05AR. A calling name need not be the first name in registration order; this series is kept separate from other publishers' first-position counts.
Measurement:: births-calling-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Null/.. cells are not published outside the top 100. Missing observations stay unknown. Duplicate top-ten categories are excluded in favour of top-100 categories.
Ranking:: Published ranks retained, including ties. Not recomputed from alphabetical order.
Spelling policy:: SCB combines spelling variants and labels each group with the most common spelling in the whole population. Every observation is marked grouped; counts do not represent that spelling alone.
Licence:: CC0-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/sv/ssd/START__BE__BE0001__BE0001D/BE0001T05AR/

Historical series ending in 2022; this is not the latest Swedish newborn release. Later Skatteverket data has not been merged into it.
Newborn calling names and grouped spellings differ from first-position, individual-spelling series.
SCB labels this table as not part of Sweden's certified official statistics category, although SCB publishes it.
No compatible denominators supplied in these tables; none inferred.

Source: Statistics Sweden (SCB), TAB619, updated 2023-01-31. Published grouped counts and ranks retained; reformatted by NameStoria.

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · United States · 1880–2025 · status: imported · 2,181,032 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Measurement:: ssa-card-applications
Rounding:: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.
Spelling policy:: SSA spellings retained exactly; no accent folding, spelling-group merging or gender reassignment.
Licence:: CC0-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: dd977bb365a903fa…
Landing page:: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

The official ZIP returned HTTP 403 from this environment; this release uses a pinned, explicitly attributed redistribution.
The redistribution cannot be verified byte-for-byte against the blocked official ZIP. Its published ETL retains counts and adds ranks; the 2025 top five per sex were checked against SSA's publication.
No compatible denominators imported; early-year coverage is incomplete.

Source: US Social Security Administration. CC0 redistribution: nkrishnaswami/us-ssa-baby-names-national (Hugging Face).

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Statistics Norway (SSB) · Norway · 1945–2025 · status: imported · 91,581 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Individual spellings retained exactly as labelled by SSB; not the spelling groups in the headline top-ten table.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.ssb.no/en/statbank1/table/10467

Only names published in table 10467 are covered; this is not a list of every name ever registered.
Count observations begin in 1945. The table advertises years from 1880, but earlier count cells are unavailable; percentage-only history is not imported.
No compatible birth denominators imported. Historical coverage and missing cells follow the publisher.

Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467. Ranks computed by NameStoria; individual spelling counts retained.

Belgium — published top 100 newborn first names, 2023–2025

Statbel (Statistics Belgium) · Belgium · 2023–2025 · status: imported · 603 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Girls and boys born in Belgium in 2023, 2024 and 2025, as labelled in Statbel's national Top 100 table. Includes boundary ties.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Statbel publishes frequencies of at least five; this import is additionally truncated to the website's top-100 lists. Missing names are unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: Published competition ranks and boundary ties retained unchanged; top-ten or alphabetical positions are not substituted for ranks.
Spelling policy:: Exact table spellings retained, including accents. Distinct spellings such as Leon and Léon remain separate.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/population/family-names-and-first-names/first-names-boys-and-girls

Only 2023–2025 national top-100 tables imported; the 1995-onwards workbooks remain pending because their download responses require a CAPTCHA.
Source is a checksum-verified rendered browser DOM table snapshot, not a downloaded XLSX or original HTTP response. HTTP status remains undocumented/null in its provenance.
Public table capture and licence review are documented; no automated CAPTCHA solving or copied browser credentials used.
No compatible national birth denominators supplied in the captured table; none inferred from top-100 sums.

Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics – Statistics Belgium), national Top 100 table. CC BY 4.0. Rendered table captured and reformatted by NameStoria; published names, counts and ranks unchanged.

Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)

Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · Austria · 1984–2025 · status: imported · 201,352 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Metadata page, verbatim: « Erste Vornamen Neugeborener nach Geburtsjahr, Geschlecht und politischem Bezirk ab 1984: 1984 bis 2009 nur Babys mit österreichischer Staatsbürgerschaft; ab 2010 alle Babys. Die regionale Zuordnung zum politischen Bezirk erfolgt nach dem Wohnort der Mutter zum Zeitpunkt der Geburt. » English title on the page: « First names by year of birth, sex and administrative district: 1984-2009 only babys with austrian nationality; from 2010 onwards all babys. » Attribute F-ANZAHL_LGEB: « Anzahl Lebendgeborene » (number of live births).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). National counts are computed by NameStoria as the sum of the published district rows plus the GEH row for the same name/sex/year (the file has no national total row); see notes for the overlap check.
Suppression:: Metadata page, verbatim: « Bei Vornamen, die pro Jahr seltener als vier Mal vorkommen, wird nur die Anzahl pro Jahr für Österreich angezeigt. » (« For first names that occur less than four times per year, only the number per year for Austria is displayed. ») These rows carry district code GEH. No name is withheld at national level, so national counts are complete as published.
Ranking:: No ranks are published; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex over the national counts.
Spelling policy:: Spellings kept exactly as published in F-VORNAME_NORMALISIERT (« Vorname normalisiert »): mixed case. Statistik Austria publishes a normalised spelling and does not document the normalisation on the metadata page; the published character set contains only ASCII letters, hyphen and the German umlauts ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü (no other diacritics: e.g. Chloe, Rene appear without accents), so other diacritics appear to be stripped by the publisher. The normalised form must not be treated as the registered orthography. Sex codes: 1 (männlich)→M, 2 (weiblich)→F.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: 2026-07-09 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 49c277575ff669e5…
Landing page:: https://data.statistik.gv.at/web/meta.jsp?dataset=OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1

Universe change in 2010: 1984-2009 Austrian-citizen babies only, from 2010 all babies (break in series).
Spellings are the publisher's normalised form (diacritics other than umlauts absent); distinct registered spellings may be merged.
National counts are sums of the district partition plus the national-only GEH rows (within one file of one publisher); district-level data is not imported.
District allocation is by the mother's residence; whether births to mothers resident abroad are included is not stated on the metadata page (unverified).
No denominators are published in this dataset; rates are not computed.

Datenquelle: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at

Rules we apply

A birth-name series is not a living-population count, and a national dataset is not a worldwide estimate.
Published values and ranks are preserved as released. We never recompute an official rank from rounded counts.
A missing year is a gap, never a zero. Absence from a published file can mean suppression, truncation or no coverage.
Rates per million are shown only when a compatible published denominator matches the region, recorded category and year. Scotland's NRS series includes these totals; other series may have none.
A spelling may carry several unrelated etymologies; statistics count the spelling and are never split between them.
Transliterations are search aids. They never merge records or prove derivation.
Popularity labels always name their region and year. There is no global rarity score.
Pages are generated from source records. No meaning, date or quote is written in without a citation.

Measured coverage

Name records: 659,211
With sourced meaning or etymology: 9,705
With IPA: 42,430
With cleared audio: 10,681
Language contexts: 642
Writing systems: 41
Datasets imported: 31
Reviewed claims: 0

Languages and scripts in the catalogue

Japanese (156132), Spanish (63441), Ancient Greek (61670), Danish (25120), Greek (23105), Russian (23039), Finnish (20543), English (18551), French (10987), Slovene (6522), Korean (6464), Italian (5600), Polish (5494), Dutch (4168), Albanian (3981), German (3970), Turkish (3770), Icelandic (3671), Serbian (3660), Chinese (3522), Portuguese (3402), Arabic (3089), Sediq (2683), Norwegian (2441), Atayal (2220), Faroese (1856), Latin (1763), Swedish (1689), Estonian (1643), Czech (1274), Latvian (1250), Hungarian (1248), Catalan (1217), Armenian (1215), Bulgarian (1186), Taroko (1120), Old English (1113), Hindi (1111), Cebuano (1103), Ukrainian (1100), Tao (Yami) (1094), Rukai (1055), Bengali (1041), Old Czech (1038), Kazakh (1021), Serbo-Croatian (1016), Puyuma (961), Lithuanian (916), Ingush (905), Slovak (753), Persian (733), Tatar (719), Basque (713), Tagalog (678), Hebrew (667), Romanian (664), Indonesian (634), Welsh (557), Macedonian (548), Old High German (514), Amis (508), Belarusian (506), Galician (481), Walloon (477), Yoruba (467), Azerbaijani (453), Vietnamese (439), Gaulish (435), Hawaiian (394), Norman (393), Kalaallisut (391), Breton (351), Irish (342), Norwegian Bokmål (337), Norwegian Nynorsk (316), Occitan (292), Esperanto (277), Croatian (277), Saisiyat (273), Malayalam (270), Gujarati (269), Igbo (255), Portuguese (Brazil) (253), Old Norse (251), Assyrian Neo-Aramaic (249), Sakizaya (247), Telugu (245), Georgian (244), Lundayeh (233), Urdu (228), Tamil (226), Scottish Gaelic (223), Ligurian (Monaco) (220), Coptic (218), Marathi (212), Old French (205), Bashkir (204), Farefare (202), Uzbek (193), Gallo (189), Old Persian (179), Ancient Egyptian (179), Thao (170), Hausa (166), Asturian (165), Manx (163), Tajik (158), Classical Armenian (157), Wymysorys (152), Mongolian (145), Afrikaans (139), Uyghur (131), Māori (128), Western Frisian (123), Yiddish (122), Tibetan (121), Middle English (118), Ottoman Turkish (117), Ingrian (116), Malay (112), Northern Sami (112), Ruthenian (112), Ugaritic (111), Khiamniungan Naga (107), Aragonese (106), Buriat (106), Scots (100), Burmese (99), Northern Kurdish (97), Sanskrit (96), Bunun (95), Sicilian (92), Proto-Germanic (92), Punjabi (90), Old Occitan (89), Kyrgyz (86), Swahili (82), Ibibio (80), East Central German (79), Tocharian B (77), Old Saxon (76), Classical Syriac (74), Old Dutch (73), Old Irish (68), Abkhazian (68), Thai (67), Kulon-Pazeh (66), Upper Sorbian (64), Tupinambá (60), Pirahã (56), Gothic (55), Ona (55), Idoma (51), Khmer (51), Kannada (51), Kanakanabu (50), Gallo-Italic of Sicily (50), Kurdish (50), Gāndhārī (49), Turkmen (48), Interlingua (IALA) (48), Saaroa (47), Old Galician-Portuguese (47), Emilian (47), Shelta (47), Kashubian (46), Proto-West Germanic (46), Church Slavic (45), Old Novgorodian (44), Adyghe (43), Proto-Norse (43), Middle French (42), Proto-Celtic (42), Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE) (42), Old Nubian (42), Tausug (41), Mycenaean Greek (40), Yámana (37), Old Median (36), Dagbani (36), Primitive Irish (36), Bosnian (35), Corsican (35), Isoko (34), Javanese (34), Old East Slavic (34), Old Uighur (34), Hanunoo (33), Luxembourgish (33), Old Spanish (33), Proto-Brythonic (33), Konkani (macrolanguage) (32), Ubykh (31), Vandalic (31), Oriya (macrolanguage) (31), Mirandese (30), Chakma (30), Maltese (29), Old Swedish (29), Rusyn (29), Efik (28), English (United States) (28), Sandawe (28), Byzantine Greek (28), Proto-Slavic (27), Pushto (27), Kashmiri (27), Parthian (26), Limburgan (25), Soninke (25), Nepali (macrolanguage) (25), Swiss German (24), Yaul (24), Fon (24), Sylheti (24), Oromo (22), Classical Nahuatl (22), Tsou (22), Bavarian (22), Chagatai (22), Zaza (21), Low German (21), Fijian (21), Lombard (21), Sinhala (21), Bactrian (21), Amharic (20), Baoulé (20), Old Slovak (20), Sindhi (20), Sardinian (19), Cornish (19), Palenquero (19), Old Ruthenian (19), Iberian (18), Skolt Sami (18), Waray (Philippines) (18), Maranao (18), Thracian (18), Tosk Albanian (18), Neapolitan (18), Sranan Tongo (17), Romansh (17), Egyptian Arabic (17), Middle Armenian (17), Akkadian (16), Swiss German (France) (16), Haitian (15), Ewe (14), Arpitan (14), Venetian (14), Manipuri (14), Spanish (Latin America and the Caribbean) (14), Tachawit (14), Akkala Sami (14), Somali (13), Middle Irish (13), Guanche (13), Siraya (13), Lavukaleve (13), Pahlavi (13), Etruscan (13), Russian (pre-reform orthography) (13), Dhivehi (13), Polabian (12), Assamese (12), Afar (12), Cimbrian (12), Manchu (12), Cherokee (12), Middle High German (11), Tiv (11), Zulu (11), Malagasy (11), Mohawk (11), Romany (11), Xhosa (11), Macedo-Romanian (11), Ido (11), Lao (11), Biblical Hebrew (11), Anglo-Norman (10), Middle Dutch (10), Moroccan Arabic (10), Old Georgian (10), Hunsrik (9), Akan (9), Igala (9), Gun (9), Tuvalu (9), French (Belgium) (9), Lower Sorbian (9), Leonese (9), Southern Sotho (9), Chuvash (9), Classical Mongolian (9), Oscan (8), Bambara (8), Friulian (8), Old Welsh (8), Romagnol (8), Proto-Iranian (8), Shona (8), Occitan (Gascon) (8), Cuneiform Luwian (8), Northern Mansi (8), Central Kurdish (8), Hijazi Arabic (8), Paiwan (7), Kavalan (7), German (Austria) (7), Middle Welsh (7), Western Abnaki (7), Ojibwa (7), Phrygian (7), Zeeuws (7), Kikuyu (7), Tonga (Tonga Islands) (7), Chechen (7), Avestan (7), Belarusian (Belarusian in Taraskievica orthography) (7), Maithili (7), Faliscan (7), Aghwan (7), Mandarin Chinese (7), Picard (6), Old Turkish (6), English (India) (6), Filipino (6), Istriot (6), Proto-Scythian (6), Pali (6), Central Bikol (6), Kom (Cameroon) (6), Waigali (6), Phoenician (6), Tahitian (6), Punic (6), Chichewa (6), Ladino (6), Samoan (6), Hlai (6), Tuvinian (6), Laz (6), Mazanderani (6), Lepontic (6), Pennsylvania German (5), Inuktitut (5), Old Breton (5), Maguindanaon (5), Ligurian (5), Western Armenian (5), Tumbuka (5), Old Catalan (5), Crimean Tatar (5), Proto-Italic (5), Malay (macrolanguage) (Malaysia) (5), Quechua (5), Navajo (5), Unami (5), Old Leonese (5), Kongo (5), Dutch (Belgium) (5), Fingallian (5), Mi'kmaq (5), Galatian (5), Kumyk (5), Abaza (5), Yakut (5), Levantine Arabic (5), Pictish (5), Lisu (5), Umbrian (5), Yue Chinese (5), Gen (4), Ga (4), Latgalian (4), Dalmatian (4), Balinese (4), Occitan (Provençal) (4), Wolof (4), Budza (4), Jamamadí (4), Occitan (Languedocien) (4), Swati (4), Meroitic (4), English (United Kingdom) (4), Pampanga (4), Urhobo (4), Mapudungun (4), Piemontese (4), Kwak'wala (4), Rade (4), Kinyarwanda (4), Kono (Sierra Leone) (4), Kabardian (4), Erzya (4), Gulf Arabic (4), Turoyo (4), Bishnupriya (4), Noric (4), Sherbro (3), Poitevin-Saintongeais (3), Kangean (3), English (Philippines) (3), Jersey Dutch (3), Moro (3), Seselwa Creole French (3), Karelian (3), Kabuverdianu (3), Angevin (3), Lorrain (3), Sassarese Sardinian (3), Fulah (3), Old Polish (3), Nhengatu (3), French (Canada) (3), Iloko (3), Silesian (3), English (Canada) (3), Sundanese (3), Proto-Hellenic (3), English (Australia) (3), Ladin (3), Inari Sami (3), Adioukrou (3), Dzongkha (3), Demotic Egyptian (3), Catalan (Valencian) (3), Murui Huitoto (3), Potawatomi (3), Chiquitano (3), Twi (3), Neo-Latin (3), Old Egyptian (3), Tachelhit (3), Lingala (3), Bini (3), Sumerian (3), Central Atlas Tamazight (3), Elymian (3), Avaric (3), Philistine (3), Bhojpuri (3), Old Telugu (3), Old Japanese (3), South Picene (3), Min Nan Chinese (2), Nauru (2), Kabyle (2), Arbëreshë Albanian (2), Common Brittonic (2), Vlaams (2), Kui (Indonesia) (2), Nobiin (2), Aymara (2), Kawi (2), Proto-Sarmatian (2), Batak Toba (2), Interlingue (2), Novial (2), Sierra de Juárez Zapotec (2), Bura-Pabir (2), Medieval Latin (2), Brithenig (2), Volscian (2), Dacian (2), Jèrriais and Guernésiais (Jersey) (2), Montenegrin (2), Lakota (2), Frankish (2), Masai (2), Niuean (2), Guadeloupean Creole French (Martinique) (2), Jamtish (2), Minangkabau (2), Rarotongan (2), Tunisian Arabic (2), Straits Salish (2), Mam (2), Pitcairn-Norfolk (2), Central Franconian (2), Veps (2), Votic (2), South Slavey (2), Rhine Franconian (2), Kaxuiâna (2), Tokelau (2), Pontic (2), Udmurt (2), Russia Buriat (2), Old Anatolian Turkish (2), Tigrinya (2), Kurtokha (2), Middle Mongolian (2), Lydian (2), Venetic (2), Pre-Samnite (2), Itene (1), Halkomelem (1), Upper Guinea Crioulo (1), Adangme (1), Franc-Comtois (1), Tyap (1), Crow (1), Guarani (1), Isthmus Zapotec (1), Jamaican Creole English (1), Saraiki (1), Tocharian A (1), Langobardic (1), Inupiaq (1), Chavacano (1), Slavomolisano (1), North Ndebele (1), Waiwai (1), Marsian (1), Chibcha (1), Rundi (1), Tarantino (1), High Valyrian (1), Solon (1), Liv (1), Lingua Franca Nova (1), Bukiyip (1), Motlav (1), Middle Breton (1), Sindarin (1), Gallo-Italic of Basilicata (1), Dan (1), Italiot Greek (1), Low German (Germany) (1), Vlax Romani (1), Min Dong Chinese (1), Northern Frisian (1), Hiligaynon (1), Rapanui (1), Extremaduran (1), Achinese (1), Fiji Hindi (1), Malawi Lomwe (1), Lambya (1), Ganda (1), Sango (1), Marshallese (1), Plautdietsch (1), Dothraki (1), Kenyang (1), Akebu (1), Nigerian Pidgin (1), San Juan Quiahije Chatino (1), Dutch (Suriname) (1), Aka-Bo (1), Morisyen (1), Trinidadian Creole English (1), Old Frisian (1), Cumbric (1), Chadian Arabic (1), Slovincian (1), Aleut (1), Mali (1), Algerian Arabic (1), Ewondo (1), Nǁng (1), Cree (1), Occitan (Limousin) (1), Karirí-Xocó (1), Judeo-Tat (1), 'Are'are (1), Comanche (1), Tewa (USA) (1), Paelignian (1), Cañari (1), Heiltsuk (1), Atakapa (1), Luo (Kenya and Tanzania) (1), Pawnee (1), Betawi (1), Chipewyan (1), Makasar (1), Okanagan (1), Lyélé (1), Proto-Sogdic (1), Kalabari (1), Ghanaian Pidgin English (1), Illyrian (1), Gela (1), Tswana (1), Louisiana Creole (1), Jarawa (India) (1), Mbosi (1), Pacific Gulf Yupik (1), East Futuna (1), Wallisian (1), Carolinian (1), Galibi Carib (1), Zhuang (1), Tonga (Nyasa) (1), Tetela (1), Ngazidja Comorian (1), Messapic (1), Alanic (1), Greek (Cyprus) (1), Bolgarian (1), Nogai (1), Lak (1), Yazgulyam (1), Mari (Russia) (1), Rutul (1), Moksha (1), Southern Altai (1), Yagnobi (1), Lezghian (1), Udi (1), Iron Ossetic (1), Chinese Pidgin Russian (1), Mingrelian (1), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (ca. 200-1200 CE) (1), Yevanic (1), Lishana Deni (1), Knaanic (1), Karaim (1), Iranian Persian (1), Southern Kurdish (1), Khowar (1), Classical Mandaic (1), N'Ko (1), Standard Moroccan Tamazight (1), Old Gujarati (1), Old Bengali (1), Old Kannada (1), Niya Prakrit (1), Sherpa (1), Rohingya (1), Madurese (1), Xibe (1), Lycian (1), Carian (1), Minaean (1), Elamite (1), Central Okinawan (1), Chinese (Taiwan, Province of China) (1)

Latin (345631), Han (150195), Greek (84198), Cyrillic (31471), Hebrew (20068), Hiragana (7054), Hangul (6517), Arabic (3875), Katakana (3263), Unknown (2423), Armenian (1360), Devanagari (1337), Beng (679), Georgian (346), Thai (303), Taml (246), Japanese (34), Telu (27), Mlym (26), Guru (25), Knda (22), Ethiopic (19), Orya (15), Tibt (15), Gujr (14), Sinh (13), Hrkt (12), Syrc (3), Laoo (3), Cher (3), Brah (2), Mymr (2), Khmr (2), Copt (1), Armi (1), Sylo (1), Olck (1), Cans (1), Runr (1), Goth (1), Egyp (1)

Source registry

All candidates evaluated so far, including those we decided not to use. Nothing is marked production-approved.

Source	Role	Decision	Rights
Wikidata: names and linked entities	Linguistic identity and relationships	First-wave import candidate	CC0 structured data; linked text and media have separate rights.
Kaikki / Wiktextract / Wiktionary	Etymology, lexical forms, pronunciation metadata	First-wave import candidate	Retain the applicable Wiktionary edition/revision licence and attribution; extraction-software licensing is separate.
Wikimedia Commons	Human pronunciation recordings and contextual images	First-wave asset candidate	File-specific rights and attribution must be recorded before publishing.
EDRDG JMnedict / ENAMDICT	Japanese written names, readings, classifications	First-wave specialist import candidate	EDRDG publishes CC BY-SA 4.0 terms allowing commercial use with conditions; verify the selected distribution and components.
US Social Security Administration	US naming observations	First-wave statistics candidate	Record the applicable agency reuse terms; no specific licence ID assigned in this audit.
France INSEE: Fichier des prénoms	Birth names, national/regional/departmental	First-wave statistics candidate	Open-data publication documented; exact release-level reuse terms still need to be recorded.
ONS England and Wales	Registered baby-name counts and ranks	First-wave statistics candidate	Dataset pages display Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated.
Statistics Canada: 17-10-0147-01	Canadian first names at birth	First-wave statistics candidate	Statistics Canada Open Licence supports reuse subject to its conditions, including attribution and no re-identification.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es. Updated 2026-04-23; reference date 2025-01-01. CC BY 4.0. Counts retained; ranks computed by NameStoria.
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland (VSA50 and VSA60), CC BY 4.0. Reformatted by NameStoria; counts and published ranks unchanged.
Statistics Norway (SSB)	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467. Ranks computed by NameStoria; individual spelling counts retained.
Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik)	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	Statistics Denmark attribution terms (commercial and non-commercial reuse permitted); Source: Statistics Denmark. Published spelling groups, counts and ranks retained; tables reformatted by NameStoria.
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: DVV / Population Information System, extracted 2026-08-04, CC BY 4.0. NameStoria reformats first-name counts and computes ranks.
Brazil IBGE Names API v2	Census-derived historical name frequencies	Second-wave candidate; vintage check required	Verify applicable API/data terms and current-release coverage before production.
Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources	Historical given-name attestations	Reference/permission candidate, not approved bulk source	Commercial bulk-reuse permission was not established.
Oxford Lexicon of Greek Personal Names	Ancient Greek attestations and historical bearers	Reference/permission candidate, not approved bulk source	Commercial reuse of the selected data was not established.
Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries	Scholarly lexical roots and historical/literary names	Edition-specific specialist research candidate	Licence and underlying-work rights must be checked separately for each selected edition.
Meertens Nederlandse Voornamenbank	Dutch names, population and historical context	Reference/partnership candidate	Do not assume reuse permission for the database or third-party dictionary explanations.
Europeana APIs and collections	Historical objects, records, and images	Second-wave metadata and rights-filtered enrichment	Metadata is CC0; digital objects and previews have item-specific rights.
Library of Congress JSON/YAML API	Archival and digitized-object discovery	Second-wave research candidate	Individual object rights must be assessed; API access is not blanket media permission.
Natural Earth	Base map geometry only	First-wave visual infrastructure candidate	Public-domain base-map data.
Harvard China Biographical Database	Chinese historical people and naming information	Hold: explicit permission required	Official licensing page contains noncommercial/exclusive-commercial restrictions.
philipperemy/name-dataset	Social-network-derived names	Excluded	Unacceptable provenance for the proposed ingestion plan.
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution); Source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Female and male first names of newborns by language region and canton (BEVNAT), SDMX flows DF_BEVNAT_PRENOMS_1 and _2. https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/weibliche-vornamen-der-neugeborenen-nach-sprachregion-und-kanton1 . Tables reformatted by NameStoria; published counts and ranks retained.
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-3.0-DE; BerlinOnline GmbH, auf Basis von Daten des Berliner Landesamtes für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO). https://github.com/berlin/haeufige-vornamen-berlin, revision 34ce79c5eccb7bc1f24087a7a3edb1a100bf39e4. NameStoria aggregates published position-1 counts and computes ranks.
Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), New Zealand	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand, Top 100 boys' names and Top 100 girls' names, 1954–2025, CC BY 4.0. PDF table coordinates extracted by NameStoria; published names, counts and printed ranks retained.
Statistics Sweden (SCB)	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC0-1.0; Source: Statistics Sweden (SCB), TAB619, updated 2023-01-31. Published grouped counts and ranks retained; reformatted by NameStoria.
Statbel (Statistics Belgium)	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography, population and coverage gaps	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics – Statistics Belgium), national Top 100 table. CC BY 4.0. Rendered table captured and reformatted by NameStoria; published names, counts and ranks unchanged.
Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), from Ministry of Interior register data	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography, population and coverage gaps	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Központi Statisztikai Hivatal (KSH), Az 50 leggyakrabban választott fiú és lány utónév a 2000-ben és 2025-ben született gyermekek körében, based on Belügyminisztérium register data. CC BY 4.0. NameStoria extracts table columns, expands PDF font ligatures and excludes one documented conflicting count.
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat)	Published national registered newborn name observations	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Istat, Conta nomi, Iscritti in anagrafe per nascita. CC BY 4.0. NameStoria retains published names and counts and computes competition ranks from them.
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (Armstat)	Published national registered newborn name observations	Imported statistics source	Armstat PX table metadata: COPYRIGHT=NO (no standard licence version stated); Source: Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (Armstat), ArmStatBank tables PS-pp-11 and PS-pp-9, 2003–2025. Both source PX files explicitly state COPYRIGHT=NO. NameStoria reformats the data, trims surrounding label spaces and computes ranks over the published positive counts.
Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado (IRN), Portugal	Annual Top 20 given-name registrations, 2017–2023	Imported statistics source	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (publisher does not specify a version); Source: Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado, Registo de Nomes (Masculino) and Registo de Nomes (Feminino), dados.justica.gov.pt. Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, as labelled by the publisher. NameStoria reformats the tables and computes competition ranks; source spellings and counts are unchanged. The adapted statistics tables retain the publisher’s attribution and share-alike terms.
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands	Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025	Imported statistics source	Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated; see data/manifests/stats3-svb-rights.json; assessment is explicitly an inference, not a publisher-issued CC licence.

Media credits

10,681 names carry rights-cleared recordings; each name page lists the creator and licence of its own files. A sample:

File:Gur-A-%C9%9Btareg%C9%9B.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aad.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aadje.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aafje.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aafke.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q9027_(swe)-Moonhouse-Aage.wav — Speaker: Moonhouse; Recorder: Moonhouse, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aagje.ogg — GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aagtje.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-aal.ogg — GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aalbert.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aalbrecht.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aalderik.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:De-Aalderk.ogg — Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aaldert.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aaldrik.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aalrik.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:De-Aaners.ogg — Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aard.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aardse.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aarnout.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:De-Aaron.ogg — Arnim Faryn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:De-Aaron2.ogg — Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-Aaron_(alt).wav — Speaker: Naomi Persephone Amethyst; Recorder: NaomiAmethyst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Naomi Persephone Amethyst; Recorder: NaomiAmethyst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Vealhurl; Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:En-Aaron.ogg — Yndtbt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q150_(fra)-Lepticed7-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Lepticed7; Recorder: Lepticed7, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q150_(fra)-Mecanautes-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Mecanautes; Recorder: Mecanautes, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Pl-Aaron.ogg — Wyksztalcioch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Grendelkhan-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Grendelkhan; Recorder: Grendelkhan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q150_(fra)-Le_Commissaire-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Le Commissaire; Recorder: Le Commissaire, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q188_(deu)-Mukeber-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Mukeber; Recorder: Mukeber, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-A%C3%A4ron.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aart.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q9027_(swe)-Moonhouse-Aasa.wav — Speaker: Moonhouse; Recorder: Moonhouse, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:LL-Q9027_(swe)-Moonhouse-Aase.wav — Speaker: Moonhouse; Recorder: Moonhouse, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:De-Aase.ogg — Arnim Faryn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:De-Aase2.ogg — Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Nl-Aat.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Hu-Aba.ogg — Panda10, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Gur-Aba%27ambire.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Gur-Aba%27ambila.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Gur-Aba%27ampika.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Gur-Aba%27amp%C9%94ka.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
File:Gur-Aba%27anemah.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Corrections

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Linguistic sources

WikidataCC0 1.0

Name identities, language contexts (P407), writing systems (P282), native labels, gendered forms (P1560), transliterations (P2440), name days, and links to pronunciation files. “Said to be the same as” (P460) is shown as a weak link, never as equivalence.

English Wiktionary via Kaikki / wiktextractCC BY-SA 4.0 (text)

Given-name senses only: meanings, etymology text, IPA and recordings. Each sense keeps its entry language, edition, and licence. We never import every proper noun.

Wikimedia CommonsPer file

Human pronunciation recordings. A file is published only when its licence and attribution were retrieved from the file page; otherwise it stays unpublished.

JMnedict (EDRDG)CC BY-SA 4.0

Japanese given names: written forms and kana readings, classified feminine, masculine or given. Readings are search aids, not etymologies; no meaning is derived from them. File date is recorded with every record and refreshed per the EDRDG licence.

Other Wiktionary editions via Kaikki / wiktextractCC BY-SA 4.0 (text)

Given-name evidence from twelve editions, including French, German, Greek and Japanese. Entry language and edition are recorded separately; ambiguous matches remain unpublished for review.

Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)Public domain

Historical scholarship, explicitly labelled with its date. These notes preserve a nineteenth-century author's account and do not establish a modern etymology.

Editorial review—

Nothing in the current catalogue is marked “Reviewed”. All claims are labelled “Source-reported” until a named reviewer records a check.

Official statistics

Armenia — Armstat published registered newborn names, 2003–2025

Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (Armstat) · Armenia · 2003–2025 · status: imported · 3,718 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: National newborn names recorded in civil-status birth acts, Armstat boys table PS-pp-11 and girls table PS-pp-9. Historical named categories in the publisher's most-frequent-name tables; not a complete register of all names. The source quality declaration describes its purpose as the 50 most frequently used names per sex.
Measurement:: births-registered-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts and sex-specific total-birth rows retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Null cells are unavailable/unpublished and are omitted without converting them to zero. Explicit numeric zeros in the API are retained as observed, unranked values. Names outside the published categories remain unknown.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips, over selected published positive counts only. Explicit zero observations remain unranked.
Spelling policy:: Armenian-script labels retained without transliteration or accent folding. Surrounding whitespace is trimmed (the boys label for Լեո has a leading space); raw labels remain in source files. English transliterations are not substituted for the Armenian spellings.
Licence:: Armstat PX table metadata: COPYRIGHT=NO (no standard licence version stated)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://statbank.armstat.am/pxweb/hy/ArmStatBank/ArmStatBank__2%20Population%20and%20social%20processes__28%20Population/PS-pp-11-2025.px/

Selected most-frequent-name categories and their available historical counts, not every name registered in Armenia. Computed tail ranks describe only those published categories.
46 denominators come from the two tables' explicit sex/year total-birth rows, not sums of selected names.
Both source PX files declare COPYRIGHT=NO; no CC0 or other standardized licence is inferred from that flag.
Armstat's JSON-stat metadata marks the table's official-statistics category false; the actual publisher remains Armstat.
No given-name position is inferred beyond the publisher's registered-name field; source definitions are preserved in the quality declaration.

British Columbia — 100 Years of Popular Baby Names (first names used 5 or more times), 1926-2025

Government of British Columbia, Vital Statistics Agency · British Columbia · 1926–2025 · status: imported · 90,461 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: 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).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: 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.
Licence:: OGL-BC (Open Government License - British Columbia; version not stated on the page)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 335c4dcbbc2b38d7…
Landing page:: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/life-events/statistics-reports/bc-s-most-popular-baby-names

British Columbia only (region CA-BC); not Canada.
Names used fewer than 5 times in a year are not presented (shown as 0 in the CSV).
Whether 'given name' means first given name only, and whether years are birth or registration years, is not stated on the page ('first names given to boys born in B.C.' suggests birth year, first name).
The CSV TOTAL column is not imported; no denominators are published.
Licence version unstated on the page.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government License – British Columbia (source: B.C. Vital Statistics Agency).

Berlin — published first-given-name registration counts, 2017–2023

BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data · Berlin · 2017–2023 · status: imported · 22,508 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Published counts for first-position given names of newborn children registered at Berlin's twelve district registry offices. Disjoint common district counts and the citywide pool of district-singleton counts are added; anonymous unique-name totals are excluded.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: District counts of one are moved to a separate pool and combined by spelling/sex/position; pooled counts of one remain anonymous and cannot be assigned to names. Published subtotals can omit singleton contributions even for names published elsewhere. Missing contributions are unknown, never inferred as zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips; ranks describe published position-1 subtotals, not a complete unsuppressed register.
Spelling policy:: Exact Unicode spellings retained; only position 1 is used. Position is not evidence of the calling name. Earlier 2012–2016 files without name positions are not mixed into this series.
Licence:: CC-BY-3.0-DE
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://github.com/berlin/haeufige-vornamen-berlin

Berlin regional coverage only; not national German popularity.
These are sums of published counts, potentially below unsuppressed totals because some district-singleton contributions remain anonymous.
National names and omitted singleton spellings cannot be inferred from these lists. No denominators imported.
Pinned government-linked repository revision 34ce79c5eccb7bc1f24087a7a3edb1a100bf39e4; latest available year there is 2023.

Israel CBS — current first names of persons born 1949-2024, population group: Christian Arabs (נוצרים-ערבים) (release 391/2025, table 1)

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) · Israel · 1949–2024 · status: imported · 49,415 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Workbook title, verbatim: « השמות הנוכחיים של ילידי 1949-2024 לפי מין וקבוצת אוכלוסייה, שם פרטי ושנת לידה » (current names of persons born 1949-2024 by sex and population group, first name and year of birth). Population group as labelled by CBS: Christian Arabs (נוצרים-ערבים); sheets « בנות נוצריות-ערביות » and « בנים נוצרים-ערבים ». Release text (11_25_391b.pdf), verbatim: « הנתונים בהודעה זו מבוססים על קובץ מרשם האוכלוסין המעודכן לאפריל 2025. » « שמותיהם של חלק מילידי 2024 (2.2% מכלל האוכלוסייה ו-2.6% מהיהודים) לא הופיעו במרשם התושבים עד למועד הפקת הקובץ (אפריל 2025). » « הנתונים שבהודעה מתייחסים לשם הפרטי הראשון אלא אם כן נכתב אחרת. » « הדת נקבעה בהתאם למופיע במרשם האוכלוסין. » (Population Register file as of April 2025; first given name; religion as recorded in the Population Register.) Counts are current names in the register of persons born in each year, not names registered at birth.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). Thousands separators in the total column are removed when parsing.
Suppression:: Cells published as '..' are kept as valueStatus "suppressed" with count null (never zero). The meaning of '..' and the inclusion threshold are not stated in the workbook or in the release text read (11_25_391b.pdf); every listed name has a total of at least 5 across the period (see notes). Cells published as 0 are not emitted: for a name listed in this dataset, a missing year means CBS published 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in table 1; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex within this population group over published counts only ('..' cells excluded).
Spelling policy:: Hebrew-script spellings kept exactly as published (no niqqud). Release text, verbatim: « השמות עברו תהליך של טיוב שבו אוחדו שמות זהים שנכתבו באיות שונה תחת האיות הנפוץ יותר. למשל השמות אביגייל ו-אביגיל נספרו כ-אביגיל. אך השמות יונתן ויהונתן נספרו בנפרד כיוון שהם נהגים בצורה שונה. » « שמות שונים הנכתבים בצורה זהה (ללא סימני ניקוד), מופיעים כשם אחד » (CBS merges identical names written in different spellings under the more common spelling; different names written identically without niqqud appear as one name). « אם השם הפרטי מופיע כשתי מילים מחוברות במקף (למשל: מנחם-מנדל), הוא ייחשב כשם אחד. » Sex: sheets labelled בנות (girls)→F, בנים (boys)→M. Transliteration is a separate, later step.
Licence:: CBS-Open-License (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Open License; commercial use permitted)
Release:: 2025-12-08 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 37b9783487d5de49…
Landing page:: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/Pages/2025/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99-2024.aspx

One dataset per CBS population group (Jews, Muslims, Christian Arabs, Druze); groups are presented exactly as CBS labels them, must never be summed, and say nothing about any individual's identity. The archived 'Other' group (1985-2021) is not in this workbook.
Measurement: current first names in the Population Register (April 2025) of persons born in each year — not names given at birth; names can change and older cohorts reflect today's register (whether persons born abroad, deceased or emigrated are included is not stated in the text read). 'resident-population' is the closest MeasurementType; no exact type exists.
Spellings are CBS-harmonised (variant spellings merged); homographs without niqqud are merged. Spellings are kept verbatim, including one published with a leading apostrophe ("'ג'ורג'").
The 'סך הכל' (total) column is not imported: for names with no '..' cells it is larger than the sum of the 1949-2024 cells, and its scope is not stated.
'..' cells are withheld values of unstated meaning (see suppressionRule).
2024 is incomplete: 2.2% of persons born in 2024 had no name in the register by April 2025 (release text).
No denominators imported.

Israel CBS — current first names of persons born 1949-2024, population group: Druze (דרוזים) (release 391/2025, table 1)

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) · Israel · 1949–2024 · status: imported · 46,779 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Workbook title, verbatim: « השמות הנוכחיים של ילידי 1949-2024 לפי מין וקבוצת אוכלוסייה, שם פרטי ושנת לידה » (current names of persons born 1949-2024 by sex and population group, first name and year of birth). Population group as labelled by CBS: Druze (דרוזים); sheets « בנות דרוזיות » and « בנים דרוזים ». Release text (11_25_391b.pdf), verbatim: « הנתונים בהודעה זו מבוססים על קובץ מרשם האוכלוסין המעודכן לאפריל 2025. » « שמותיהם של חלק מילידי 2024 (2.2% מכלל האוכלוסייה ו-2.6% מהיהודים) לא הופיעו במרשם התושבים עד למועד הפקת הקובץ (אפריל 2025). » « הנתונים שבהודעה מתייחסים לשם הפרטי הראשון אלא אם כן נכתב אחרת. » « הדת נקבעה בהתאם למופיע במרשם האוכלוסין. » (Population Register file as of April 2025; first given name; religion as recorded in the Population Register.) Counts are current names in the register of persons born in each year, not names registered at birth.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). Thousands separators in the total column are removed when parsing.
Suppression:: Cells published as '..' are kept as valueStatus "suppressed" with count null (never zero). The meaning of '..' and the inclusion threshold are not stated in the workbook or in the release text read (11_25_391b.pdf); every listed name has a total of at least 5 across the period (see notes). Cells published as 0 are not emitted: for a name listed in this dataset, a missing year means CBS published 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in table 1; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex within this population group over published counts only ('..' cells excluded).
Spelling policy:: Hebrew-script spellings kept exactly as published (no niqqud). Release text, verbatim: « השמות עברו תהליך של טיוב שבו אוחדו שמות זהים שנכתבו באיות שונה תחת האיות הנפוץ יותר. למשל השמות אביגייל ו-אביגיל נספרו כ-אביגיל. אך השמות יונתן ויהונתן נספרו בנפרד כיוון שהם נהגים בצורה שונה. » « שמות שונים הנכתבים בצורה זהה (ללא סימני ניקוד), מופיעים כשם אחד » (CBS merges identical names written in different spellings under the more common spelling; different names written identically without niqqud appear as one name). « אם השם הפרטי מופיע כשתי מילים מחוברות במקף (למשל: מנחם-מנדל), הוא ייחשב כשם אחד. » Sex: sheets labelled בנות (girls)→F, בנים (boys)→M. Transliteration is a separate, later step.
Licence:: CBS-Open-License (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Open License; commercial use permitted)
Release:: 2025-12-08 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 37b9783487d5de49…
Landing page:: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/Pages/2025/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99-2024.aspx

One dataset per CBS population group (Jews, Muslims, Christian Arabs, Druze); groups are presented exactly as CBS labels them, must never be summed, and say nothing about any individual's identity. The archived 'Other' group (1985-2021) is not in this workbook.
Measurement: current first names in the Population Register (April 2025) of persons born in each year — not names given at birth; names can change and older cohorts reflect today's register (whether persons born abroad, deceased or emigrated are included is not stated in the text read). 'resident-population' is the closest MeasurementType; no exact type exists.
Spellings are CBS-harmonised (variant spellings merged); homographs without niqqud are merged. Spellings are kept verbatim, including one published with a leading apostrophe ("'ג'ורג'").
The 'סך הכל' (total) column is not imported: for names with no '..' cells it is larger than the sum of the 1949-2024 cells, and its scope is not stated.
'..' cells are withheld values of unstated meaning (see suppressionRule).
2024 is incomplete: 2.2% of persons born in 2024 had no name in the register by April 2025 (release text).
No denominators imported.

Israel CBS — current first names of persons born 1949-2024, population group: Jews (יהודים) (release 391/2025, table 1)

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) · Israel · 1949–2024 · status: imported · 305,700 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Workbook title, verbatim: « השמות הנוכחיים של ילידי 1949-2024 לפי מין וקבוצת אוכלוסייה, שם פרטי ושנת לידה » (current names of persons born 1949-2024 by sex and population group, first name and year of birth). Population group as labelled by CBS: Jews (יהודים); sheets « בנות יהודיות » and « בנים יהודים ». Release text (11_25_391b.pdf), verbatim: « הנתונים בהודעה זו מבוססים על קובץ מרשם האוכלוסין המעודכן לאפריל 2025. » « שמותיהם של חלק מילידי 2024 (2.2% מכלל האוכלוסייה ו-2.6% מהיהודים) לא הופיעו במרשם התושבים עד למועד הפקת הקובץ (אפריל 2025). » « הנתונים שבהודעה מתייחסים לשם הפרטי הראשון אלא אם כן נכתב אחרת. » « הדת נקבעה בהתאם למופיע במרשם האוכלוסין. » (Population Register file as of April 2025; first given name; religion as recorded in the Population Register.) Counts are current names in the register of persons born in each year, not names registered at birth.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). Thousands separators in the total column are removed when parsing.
Suppression:: Cells published as '..' are kept as valueStatus "suppressed" with count null (never zero). The meaning of '..' and the inclusion threshold are not stated in the workbook or in the release text read (11_25_391b.pdf); every listed name has a total of at least 5 across the period (see notes). Cells published as 0 are not emitted: for a name listed in this dataset, a missing year means CBS published 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in table 1; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex within this population group over published counts only ('..' cells excluded).
Spelling policy:: Hebrew-script spellings kept exactly as published (no niqqud). Release text, verbatim: « השמות עברו תהליך של טיוב שבו אוחדו שמות זהים שנכתבו באיות שונה תחת האיות הנפוץ יותר. למשל השמות אביגייל ו-אביגיל נספרו כ-אביגיל. אך השמות יונתן ויהונתן נספרו בנפרד כיוון שהם נהגים בצורה שונה. » « שמות שונים הנכתבים בצורה זהה (ללא סימני ניקוד), מופיעים כשם אחד » (CBS merges identical names written in different spellings under the more common spelling; different names written identically without niqqud appear as one name). « אם השם הפרטי מופיע כשתי מילים מחוברות במקף (למשל: מנחם-מנדל), הוא ייחשב כשם אחד. » Sex: sheets labelled בנות (girls)→F, בנים (boys)→M. Transliteration is a separate, later step.
Licence:: CBS-Open-License (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Open License; commercial use permitted)
Release:: 2025-12-08 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 37b9783487d5de49…
Landing page:: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/Pages/2025/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99-2024.aspx

One dataset per CBS population group (Jews, Muslims, Christian Arabs, Druze); groups are presented exactly as CBS labels them, must never be summed, and say nothing about any individual's identity. The archived 'Other' group (1985-2021) is not in this workbook.
Measurement: current first names in the Population Register (April 2025) of persons born in each year — not names given at birth; names can change and older cohorts reflect today's register (whether persons born abroad, deceased or emigrated are included is not stated in the text read). 'resident-population' is the closest MeasurementType; no exact type exists.
Spellings are CBS-harmonised (variant spellings merged); homographs without niqqud are merged. Spellings are kept verbatim, including one published with a leading apostrophe ("'ג'ורג'").
The 'סך הכל' (total) column is not imported: for names with no '..' cells it is larger than the sum of the 1949-2024 cells, and its scope is not stated.
'..' cells are withheld values of unstated meaning (see suppressionRule).
2024 is incomplete: 2.2% of persons born in 2024 had no name in the register by April 2025 (release text).
No denominators imported.

Israel CBS — current first names of persons born 1949-2024, population group: Muslims (מוסלמים) (release 391/2025, table 1)

Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel (הלשכה המרכזית לסטטיסטיקה) · Israel · 1949–2024 · status: imported · 171,030 rows parsed, 1 rejected

Universe:: Workbook title, verbatim: « השמות הנוכחיים של ילידי 1949-2024 לפי מין וקבוצת אוכלוסייה, שם פרטי ושנת לידה » (current names of persons born 1949-2024 by sex and population group, first name and year of birth). Population group as labelled by CBS: Muslims (מוסלמים); sheets « בנות מוסלמיות » and « בנים מוסלמים ». Release text (11_25_391b.pdf), verbatim: « הנתונים בהודעה זו מבוססים על קובץ מרשם האוכלוסין המעודכן לאפריל 2025. » « שמותיהם של חלק מילידי 2024 (2.2% מכלל האוכלוסייה ו-2.6% מהיהודים) לא הופיעו במרשם התושבים עד למועד הפקת הקובץ (אפריל 2025). » « הנתונים שבהודעה מתייחסים לשם הפרטי הראשון אלא אם כן נכתב אחרת. » « הדת נקבעה בהתאם למופיע במרשם האוכלוסין. » (Population Register file as of April 2025; first given name; religion as recorded in the Population Register.) Counts are current names in the register of persons born in each year, not names registered at birth.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). Thousands separators in the total column are removed when parsing.
Suppression:: Cells published as '..' are kept as valueStatus "suppressed" with count null (never zero). The meaning of '..' and the inclusion threshold are not stated in the workbook or in the release text read (11_25_391b.pdf); every listed name has a total of at least 5 across the period (see notes). Cells published as 0 are not emitted: for a name listed in this dataset, a missing year means CBS published 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in table 1; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex within this population group over published counts only ('..' cells excluded).
Spelling policy:: Hebrew-script spellings kept exactly as published (no niqqud). Release text, verbatim: « השמות עברו תהליך של טיוב שבו אוחדו שמות זהים שנכתבו באיות שונה תחת האיות הנפוץ יותר. למשל השמות אביגייל ו-אביגיל נספרו כ-אביגיל. אך השמות יונתן ויהונתן נספרו בנפרד כיוון שהם נהגים בצורה שונה. » « שמות שונים הנכתבים בצורה זהה (ללא סימני ניקוד), מופיעים כשם אחד » (CBS merges identical names written in different spellings under the more common spelling; different names written identically without niqqud appear as one name). « אם השם הפרטי מופיע כשתי מילים מחוברות במקף (למשל: מנחם-מנדל), הוא ייחשב כשם אחד. » Sex: sheets labelled בנות (girls)→F, בנים (boys)→M. Transliteration is a separate, later step.
Licence:: CBS-Open-License (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics Open License; commercial use permitted)
Release:: 2025-12-08 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 37b9783487d5de49…
Landing page:: https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/Pages/2025/%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%95-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%93%D7%99-2024.aspx

One dataset per CBS population group (Jews, Muslims, Christian Arabs, Druze); groups are presented exactly as CBS labels them, must never be summed, and say nothing about any individual's identity. The archived 'Other' group (1985-2021) is not in this workbook.
Measurement: current first names in the Population Register (April 2025) of persons born in each year — not names given at birth; names can change and older cohorts reflect today's register (whether persons born abroad, deceased or emigrated are included is not stated in the text read). 'resident-population' is the closest MeasurementType; no exact type exists.
Spellings are CBS-harmonised (variant spellings merged); homographs without niqqud are merged. Spellings are kept verbatim, including one published with a leading apostrophe ("'ג'ורג'").
The 'סך הכל' (total) column is not imported: for names with no '..' cells it is larger than the sum of the 1949-2024 cells, and its scope is not stated.
'..' cells are withheld values of unstated meaning (see suppressionRule).
2024 is incomplete: 2.2% of persons born in 2024 had no name in the register by April 2025 (release text).
No denominators imported.

Ireland — babies' first names with three or more occurrences, 1964–2025

Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · Ireland · 1964–2025 · status: imported · 82,952 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: First given names on Irish birth registrations; CSO tables VSA50 (boys) and VSA60 (girls). From 2017, births registered during the calendar year.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: CSO publishes names with three or more occurrences. Null cells are not emitted; absence is unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: Published ranks from VSA50C02 and VSA60C02 retained unchanged, including ties.
Spelling policy:: Published Unicode names retained exactly, including accents and initial punctuation. Accents are distinguished in the CSO series from 2018.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://data.cso.ie/table/VSA50

Accent handling changed in 2018; pre-2018 and later spellings are not necessarily directly comparable.
Additional forenames are not counted. No denominator is inferred from the published name rows.

Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland (VSA50 and VSA60), CC BY 4.0. Reformatted by NameStoria; counts and published ranks unchanged.

New Zealand — DIA published top 100 baby first names per sex, 1954–2025

Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), New Zealand · New Zealand · 1954–2025 · status: imported · 14,398 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: DIA's published annual top-100 boys' and girls' first-name tables, 1954–2025. Published PDF snapshot, January 2026; not the separate full historical spreadsheet release.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Published top 100 per sex/year only. Names outside these lists remain unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: Printed PDF row ranks 1–100 retained unchanged, including distinct sequential positions when counts are equal. Not recomputed as competition ranks.
Spelling policy:: Published spellings retained, including accents and compounds. Boys' and girls' tables remain separate. Names and counts are paired by PDF coordinates; clipped repeated columns require a complete counterpart on the next page.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.dia.govt.nz/press.nsf/d77da9b523f12931cc256ac5000d19b6/f07609fb62889341cc258e310039e07a!OpenDocument

A truncated top-100 PDF series, not the full 1900-onwards spreadsheet. These releases can reflect different publication snapshots.
The source does not supply compatible denominators in the imported tables; none inferred from the top-100 sums.
January 2026 PDF snapshot; later historical spreadsheet revisions are not silently merged into it.
The boys table prints Michael twice in 1988 (rank 2: 741; rank 100: 52). Both conflicting cells are excluded without guessing a correction. See data/manifests/stats3-nz-source-exclusions.json; absence remains unknown.

Denmark — grouped top baby names, 1985–2025

Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik) · Denmark · 1985–2025 · status: imported · 3,700 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Statistics Denmark's top 25 girls' and boys' first-name spelling groups in 1985–1992 and top 50 from 1993 per birth year, based on CPR registrations. Before 1996, Danish citizens only.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Exact numbers are not shown for names held by fewer than three persons. These top lists are truncated; absence is not zero.
Ranking:: Published top-25 (1985–1992) and top-50 (1993 onwards) ranks retained unchanged.
Spelling policy:: Different spellings are grouped together and shown using the most common spelling. Every observation is marked grouped; counts must not be interpreted as individual-spelling totals.
Licence:: Statistics Denmark attribution terms (commercial and non-commercial reuse permitted)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/borgere/navne/navne-til-nyfoedte

Top 25 per sex in 1985–1992 and top 50 from 1993; not an exhaustive national name list.
Grouped spelling counts differ from the ungrouped name-search series.
Before 1996, only Danish citizens are covered. No denominators imported.

Source: Statistics Denmark. Published spelling groups, counts and ranks retained; tables reformatted by NameStoria.

Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03

Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · Finland · 2026–2026 · status: imported · 17,139 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Current first given names of living Finnish citizens residing in Finland or abroad in the Population Information System as of 2026-08-03; extracted 2026-08-04. Foreign citizens, deceased persons and former names excluded. Only the first-name sheets are used.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Names occurring fewer than five times are omitted. Absence is unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Unicode spelling and accents retained exactly; first names are not combined with all-forename or middle-name sheets.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: 2026-08-04 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.avoindata.fi/data/en_GB/dataset/none

Citizenship-based population snapshot includes citizens living abroad and excludes foreign citizens living in Finland. It is not the full resident population or a newborn ranking.
resident-population is the nearest available measurement category; the exact citizenship and geography scope is stated in the title and universe.
The year is the register snapshot year, not a birth year. No denominators imported.

Source: DVV / Population Information System, extracted 2026-08-04, CC BY 4.0. NameStoria reformats first-name counts and computes ranks.

Switzerland — published first names of newborns, 2000–2025

Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland · Switzerland · 2000–2025 · status: imported · 102,183 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Annual first given names of newborns, BEVNAT live-birth statistics, national geography 8100 only. Infostar civil-register data. Regional rows are not added to national totals.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only names and cells published in the FSO flows are covered. Literal zero cells are not emitted; absence in NameStoria must not be treated as a complete national zero-frequency claim.
Ranking:: FSO RANK observations retained unchanged; zero rank/count pairs omitted.
Spelling policy:: Name labels resolved from each flow's official first-name codelist and retained exactly, with Unicode accents. No language-region counts combined.
Licence:: opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/weibliche-vornamen-der-neugeborenen-nach-sprachregion-und-kanton1

Coverage is the published first-name codelist, not an exhaustive registry of every spelling.
Only national geography 8100 is imported. No denominators imported.
Resource rights verified 2026-10-15 from official CKAN metadata and terms through web retrieval; see data/manifests/stats3-swiss-rights.json. Dataset-level licence is null but resource rights specify OPEN-BY.

Spain — national top 100 newborn names per sex, 2002–2024

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · Spain · 2002–2024 · status: imported · 4,600 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Names of newborns from INE birth statistics, national TOTAL sheet only. Regional tables are not added to national counts.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only the published top 100 names per sex and year are covered; names outside the lists remain unknown.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Published uppercase Unicode spellings retained exactly, including compound names. No accents are added or inferred.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: 2025-11-19 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177009&menu=resultados&idp=1254735572981

A truncated top-100 series, not a complete list of registered names.
Ranks are computed from the published counts, preserving ties, rather than treating alphabetical order within ties as distinct ranks.
Published national sex/year TOTAL rows provide compatible denominators; no totals inferred from name rows.

Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es. Latest birth table: 2024; catalogue update 2025-11-19. CC BY 4.0. Counts retained; ranks computed by NameStoria.

Spain — first names of residents, census snapshot 2025-01-01

Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain · Spain · 2025–2025 · status: imported · 63,440 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Annual population census at 2025-01-01; all published national first-name frequencies of at least 20 residents. A snapshot of current residents, not historical birth registrations.
Measurement:: resident-population
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only names held by at least 20 residents nationally are published. Missing names remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Published uppercase Unicode spellings retained exactly, including compound names. No accents are added or inferred.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: 2026-04-23 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177009&menu=resultados&idp=1254735572981

The observation year is the census snapshot year. These counts must not be mixed with annual newborn totals.
The workbook's Orden column is a row order; competition ranks are computed from counts so ties share a rank.
Average ages are not imported. No population denominator imported.

Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es. Updated 2026-04-23; reference date 2025-01-01. CC BY 4.0. Counts retained; ranks computed by NameStoria.

Fichier des prénoms — édition 2026 (naissances 1900 à 2025), fichier national

Universe:: First given name (« PRENOM : premier prénom ») of persons registered at birth in the French civil register, as held in the RNIPP. Page wording: « prénoms attribués aux enfants nés en France entre 1900 et 2025 (les données avant 2012 ne concernent que France hors Mayotte) »; « personnes nées en France métropolitaine et dans les départements-régions d'outre-mer ». Birth observations, not a living-population count.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: « VALEUR : fréquence arrondie au multiple de 5 le plus proche ». « La mise en place de cet arrondi, à partir de la diffusion de juillet 2025, est motivée par la variabilité de quelques unités d'une année à l'autre des fréquences et par la mise en œuvre des obligations relatives au secret statistique. » « En raison des arrondis, la somme des effectifs départementaux peut différer des effectifs régionaux ou nationaux. » Every observation is therefore valueStatus=rounded (verified: 0 rows with a count that is not a multiple of 5).
Suppression:: Publication threshold (landing page): « Un prénom est diffusé s'il a été attribué au moins 3 fois à des personnes de sexe féminin ou à des personnes de sexe masculin : au niveau national : pour une année de naissance donnée [...] Les prénoms ne remplissant pas ces conditions ne sont pas diffusés. [...] L'absence d'un croisement sexe x prénom x année x zone géographique ne signifie donc pas forcément qu'il n'existe pas dans les données de l'état civil, mais qu'il comporte deux occurrences ou moins. » A missing sex/name/year row therefore means ≤ 2 occurrences, never 0. This release contains no grouped rare-names row (older releases used `_PRENOMS_RARES`); the spelling RARES present in the file is a real name (« le prénom d'origine roumaine « Rareș » apparaît en tant que « RARES » »).
Ranking:: « RANG : rang calculé à partir des effectifs non arrondis selon le sexe, l'année de naissance et la zone géographique ; en cas d'égalité sur les valeurs non arrondies, un tri aléatoire est appliqué. » Ranks are published by INSEE from unrounded counts and are preserved verbatim; NameStoria never recomputes them from the rounded counts. Ranks are unique within a sex/year (random tie-break by INSEE).
Spelling policy:: Uppercase spellings as published. « Ils comportent, dans la limite des contraintes techniques de saisie ou de traitement de données, les accents et apostrophes. » « Les prénoms diffusés font l'objet de corrections élémentaires : suppression du prénom ANONYME ou d'espaces incongrus (par exemple, C LAUDINE). » « L'alphabet utilisé pour l'écriture des prénoms doit être celui qui sert à l'écriture du français [...] (par exemple, le « ñ » ou le « ș ») » are not allowed. Compound-name rule: a one-letter first item (or a two-letter first item never seen alone since 1900) is joined with the next item (e.g. N DEYE). Sex codes mapped by NameStoria: SEXE 1 → M, 2 → F.
Licence:: LO-2.0
Release:: 2026-07-16 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Checksum:: 4c3662bbc75a021a…
Landing page:: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8595130?sommaire=8595113

Rates per million not computed: no compatible denominator imported (the file carries no total-births figure; INSEE publishes births separately in « Les naissances en 2025 et en séries longues », not imported or verified here).
Counts are rounded to the nearest multiple of 5; small counts (5, 10) are therefore ±2 of the true value and the sum of published counts is not the number of births.
Names given ≤ 2 times in a sex/year are not published; absence is not zero.
Years before 2012 exclude Mayotte (« les données avant 2012 ne concernent que France hors Mayotte »). Geography is harmonised to the latest vintage (« diffusées selon la géographie du dernier millésime »); for the national file the page notes that Saint-Barthélemy and Saint-Martin (collectivités d'outre-mer since 2007) are no longer included with Guadeloupe.
« L'exhaustivité des prénoms n'est pas garantie sur toute la période, notamment pour les années antérieures à 1946. » Residual entry errors exist; some names may reflect post-birth name changes. 1900–2021 counts are from the RNIPP as at 31/12/2024, 2022–2025 counts as at 31/12/2025.
Only the first given name is counted; compound-name detection follows INSEE's rule and may split or join names imperfectly.
Only Latin-script manifest names were matched; matching is NFC-uppercase with an accent-insensitive fallback and is recorded per spelling in the fixture.
Top lists cover 34 years (5-year steps 1900–2025 plus each of the last ten years) at top-100 per sex; they are not present for other years.
The licence (Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0, Etalab) is stated on the INSEE site-wide legal notice, not on the dataset page itself.

Source : Insee, Fichier des prénoms, édition 2026 (données mises à jour le 16/07/2026)

Italy — Istat published top 50 registered newborn names per sex, 1999–2024

Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat) · Italy · 1999–2024 · status: imported · 2,600 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Names of newborn children entered in Italian population registers, Istat survey Iscritti in anagrafe per nascita. The counter's published national top 50 per sex and year; not every registered name.
Measurement:: births-registered-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding. API percentages are not imported or inverted into denominators.
Suppression:: The public counter displays positive counts below five as <5. This import contains only the top-50 lists, whose counts are checked to be at least five. Names outside the selected lists remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Exact uppercase publisher spellings retained, including accents, compounds and apostrophes. Apostrophe spellings such as NICOLO' are not silently changed to accented forms. Catalogue links use NFC uppercase matching without removing accents.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.istat.it/dati/calcolatori/contanomi/

National top 50 per sex/year only, rather than the full registry or every name-search result.
Istat states that these names are processed for public information and that writing/transcription errors or name/sex incompatibilities are not statistically corrected. Labels remain source-reported.
The JSONP wrapper is parsed as JSON without executing source code. Queries use the public counter's own year and top-50 controls.
No compatible denominators are supplied in these responses; none are inferred from percentages or top-list sums.

Source: Istat, Conta nomi, Iscritti in anagrafe per nascita. CC BY 4.0. NameStoria retains published names and counts and computes competition ranks from them.

Hungary — KSH published top 50 newborn first names, 2000 and 2025

Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), from Ministry of Interior register data · Hungary · 2000–2025 · status: imported · 199 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: The two birth years 2000 and 2025 in KSH's published top-50 boys' and girls' name infographic. The 2025 first-position counts were cross-checked against the linked ministry registry workbook; one conflicting count is excluded.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only the published top 50 for two birth years are covered. Other names, intervening years and the excluded conflicting count remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: Printed KSH positions 1–50 retained, including separate sequential ranks when counts are tied. Not recomputed as competition ranks.
Spelling policy:: Accents and distinct Hungarian spellings retained. PDF presentation ligatures (e.g. ﬁ) are expanded to letters; Szofia, Szófia and Zsófia remain distinct names.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.ksh.hu/nepesseg-es-nepmozgalom

Only 2000 and 2025 are imported, not a continuous 2000–2025 series.
Dominik at boys rank 1 in 2025 is excluded: KSH prints 1,267 while the linked registry workbook prints 1,019. No correction or sum is guessed. See data/manifests/stats3-hungary-source-conflict.json. Other 99 KSH 2025 counts agree with the first-position registry column.
The source licence covers KSH's published infographic. The ministry workbook is used for validation only; no separate ministry dataset is republished under an assumed KSH licence.
No compatible denominators imported; no totals inferred from the truncated name lists.

NISRA — First Forenames Given to Babies Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2025 (full list)

Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) · Northern Ireland · 1997–2025 · status: imported · 100,417 rows parsed, 51 rejected

Universe:: Definitions sheet, verbatim: « Date of Registration and Date of Occurrence » « These results are based on an analysis of the first names recorded on births registered within the given registration year with the General Register Office, Northern Ireland. » « The analysis is carried out on births to both resident and non-resident mothers registered within the given time period. » Cover sheet: « Data presented in this spreadsheet is final and details first forenames for births registered in Northern Ireland during 2025. »
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: Definitions sheet, verbatim: « Totals for names with a count of less than 3 have been supressed. » « - indicates a value of zero whereas .. indicates a value of less than 3 » Names published as '..' are emitted with valueStatus "suppressed" and count null; '-' (zero) cells are not emitted, so a year absent for a listed name means NISRA published zero for it, and a name absent from the list entirely was not registered in 1997-2025.
Ranking:: Rank as published in Tables 1/2 (and cross-checked against Tables 3/4), preserved verbatim; never recomputed. Definitions sheet: « Names with equal counts have been placed in alphabetical order. » Tied counts share a rank in the published tables (see notes for the observed pattern).
Spelling policy:: Exact published spelling (title case). Definitions sheet, verbatim: « Different spellings of a name have been treated as separate names, e.g. Amelia and Amelija. » « Names containing accents have been recorded without those accents, e.g. Séan is recorded as Sean. » NISRA therefore strips accents. Sex codes: Tables 1/3 (boys)→M, Tables 2/4 (girls)→F.
Licence:: OGL-UK-3.0
Release:: 2026-04-16 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: e6f3058b2fd8de65…
Landing page:: https://www.nisra.gov.uk/publications/baby-names-2025

Northern Ireland only (region GB-NIR). This is not the United Kingdom; England and Wales (ONS) and Scotland (NRS) publish separately and must never be summed with this dataset.
Year is the year of registration, not of birth.
Accents are removed by NISRA (Séan recorded as Sean).
Names with a count below 3 appear as '..' (suppressed, count unknown); they are never zero.
No denominators imported (the bulletin tables were not parsed).

Source: NISRA : Website: www.nisra.gov.uk (Open Government Licence v3.0)

National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names: all first forenames given to 3 or more babies, Scotland, 1974-2025

National Records of Scotland (NRS) · Scotland · 1974–2025 · status: imported · 74,331 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: metadata.csv (zip), verbatim: « Baby name statistics are compiled from first names recorded in the ‘child’s forename(s)’ part of the entry of the registration of the birth » « The statistics are based only on births which were registered up to 9 April 2026. » « Baby name statistics refer to the births registered in Scotland. » « All births which occur in Scotland should be registered in Scotland, even if the people involved are residents of other countries. » « These figures do not include any names that were given to babies who were stillborn. » « Baby names statistics do not include names given to babies of Scottish residents where the birth occurred outwith Scotland. » Publication date: « The data table was originally published at 9.30am on Tuesday 26 May 2026 »
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: metadata.csv, verbatim: « Names with a count of 2 or less in total within Scotland have been suppressed (an exemption applies under Section 38 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002) in order to protect the confidentiality of individuals. » Methodology PDF: « As of 2024, we have reviewed the baby names methodology and no longer release names given to fewer than three babies. » Absence of a name means 2 or fewer (or not registered by the cut-off), never 0.
Ranking:: Rank as published in the Rank column, preserved verbatim; never recomputed. metadata.csv: « Births where the name of the baby is not stated are excluded from all the ranks. » Tie handling is not described in words; the notes record the observed pattern.
Spelling policy:: Exact published spelling (title case as produced by NRS). metadata.csv, verbatim: « The statistics are based on the exact spelling of the name given on the birth certificate. » « Accents were ignored, so (for example) ‘Chloe’, ‘Chloé’, ‘Chloë’. ‘Chloè’ and ‘Chlöe’ are all counted as the same name: ‘Chloe’. » (metadata.csv is Windows-1252 encoded and decoded as such). NRS therefore strips accents. Methodology: names are processed in upper case and converted to 'proper case', so e.g. McKenzie appears as 'Mckenzie'; only the first space-delimited word of the forename field is counted (hyphenated names count as one). Sex codes: Boy→M, Girl→F.
Licence:: OGL-UK-3.0
Release:: 2026-05-26 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: e1dd892b576f75cc…
Landing page:: https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/publications/babies-first-names-2025/

Scotland only (region GB-SCT). This is not the United Kingdom; England and Wales (ONS) and Northern Ireland (NISRA) publish separately and must never be summed with this dataset.
Accents are ignored by NRS (Chloé counted as Chloe); case is reconstructed by NRS ('Mckenzie').
Only the first space-delimited word of the forename field is counted ('Da Silva' → 'Da'); the full lists may include entries that are not names.
Forename field truncated at 15 characters for 1974-1995 registrations and 30 characters for 1996-2016 (methodology).
Names given to fewer than three babies are not published (from the 2024 methodology review, applied to the whole 1974-2025 list in this release).
Counts relate to births registered by the spring cut-off; late registrations are not included.
Denominators are Table 8 'All babies', which NRS bases on the full list including names given to fewer than three babies (note 6).

NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages — Popular Baby Names (annual top 100 per gender), 1952-2025

NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (via data.nsw.gov.au) · New South Wales · 1952–2025 · status: imported · 14,801 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: 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. »
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: 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.
Licence:: CC-BY (Creative Commons Attribution; version not stated on the record)
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 1335e7311868520e…
Landing page:: https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/popular-baby-names-from-1952

New South Wales only (region AU-NSW); not Australia.
Top-100 lists only: names outside the annual top 100 are not published, so long-tail trends are not available.
Lists are 'based on the names registered in the previous calendar year' (record description): the year is a registration year.
Licence version not stated on the record (CC BY, unversioned).
No denominators published.

Source: NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Popular Baby Names 1952 to 2025, data.nsw.gov.au, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution

Baby names in England and Wales: 2025 (boys and girls workbooks, Table 6: all published names)

Office for National Statistics (ONS) · England and Wales · 2025–2025 · status: imported · 14,200 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Cover sheet, verbatim: « Baby name statistics are compiled from first names recorded when live births are registered in England and Wales as part of civil registration, a legal requirement. » « The statistics are based only on live births which occurred in the calendar year, as there is no public register of stillbirths. » « Babies born in England and Wales to women whose usual residence is outside England and Wales are included in the statistics for England and Wales as a whole, but excluded from any sub-division of England and Wales. » « The statistics are based on the exact spelling of the name given on the birth certificate. Grouping names with similar pronunciation would change the rankings. Exact names are given so users can group if they wish. » Table 6 counts exclude births where the mother's usual residence was outside England and Wales and where the name was not stated (note 3).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated on the workbook; counts are published as integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: Note 6, verbatim: « Names with a count of 2 or less have been redacted using S40 of the Freedom of Information Act in order to protect the confidentiality of individuals. » Absence of a name therefore means a count of 2 or less (or not stated), never 0.
Ranking:: Rank as published in Table 6 (and Table 1 for the top 100), preserved verbatim; NameStoria never recomputes ranks. Tie handling observed in this edition: tied counts share a rank and the following rank is skipped (e.g. 59, 59, 61). The published ranks are not reconstructible from the listed counts alone: the notes diagnostic shows that from a certain rank downward each published rank is one greater than a competition rank computed from Table 6, which indicates ONS ranked a list containing at least one name not shown in Table 6 (reason not stated on the sheet). Note 1, verbatim: « These rankings have been produced using the exact spelling of the name given at birth registration. Similar names with different spellings have been counted separately. »
Spelling policy:: Exact spelling as given on the birth certificate (note 1; cover sheet: « The statistics are based on the exact spelling of the name given on the birth certificate. Grouping names with similar pronunciation would change the rankings. »). Title-case ASCII spellings as published; hyphenated compound names appear as single spellings. Sex codes mapped by NameStoria: boys workbook → M, girls workbook → F.
Licence:: OGL-UK-3.0
Release:: 2026-07-09 · retrieved 2026-10-14
Checksum:: 268af7c74e917211…
Landing page:: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesenglandandwalesbabynamesstatisticsboys

England and Wales only (region GB-EAW). This is not the United Kingdom: Scotland and Northern Ireland publish separately and are not included.
Single-year edition (2025); earlier editions have different workbook layouts and are not imported.
Rates per million not computed: no compatible denominator imported (Table 4/5 'All Names' totals exist but include births where the name was not stated (note 4) and use a different exclusion rule from Table 6; not imported or verified).
Names with a count of 2 or less are redacted (note 6); absence is not zero.
Births to mothers usually resident outside England and Wales are included in the England and Wales totals but excluded from sub-national tables (cover sheet); sub-national tables (England, Wales, regions, areas, month, mother's age) are not imported and must never be summed.
Only Latin-script manifest names were matched; matching is case-insensitive on NFC with an accent-insensitive fallback and is recorded per spelling in the fixture.
Top lists: top 100 per sex for 2025 only.

Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Ontario top baby names, historical archive 1917–2013

Government of Ontario (Office of the Registrar General) · Ontario · 1917–2013 · status: imported · 157,816 rows parsed, 2 rejected

Universe:: First names from births registered in Ontario, male and female files. Historical archive only; not Canada's national population.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer frequencies retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Official dataset description: Counts of fewer than 5 names were suppressed for privacy. Absent observations are not zeros.
Ranking:: No ranks are published in these CSVs; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips.
Spelling policy:: Uppercase publisher spellings retained, including diacritics. Male file decoded as Windows-1252; female file uses the observed CP850 accented characters. Sex follows the source file.
Licence:: OGL-ON-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/ontario-top-baby-names-male

Historical coverage ends in 2013. The current 1913/1917–2024 files still return HTTP 504; this archive is not presented as the latest release.
Two malformed female source rows have letters displaced into the frequency column and are rejected rather than reconstructed.
No compatible denominators imported.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Source: Government of Ontario.

Ontario first baby names, 1913–2023 (verified redistribution)

Government of Ontario; redistributed by helloharun · Ontario · 1913–2023 · status: imported · 177,068 rows parsed, 2 rejected

Universe:: First names from births registered in Ontario; female records start in 1913 and male records in 1917. Not national Canadian statistics.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Integer published frequencies retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Counts of fewer than 5 names were suppressed for privacy. Missing observations are unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: The redistribution has no rank column; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips.
Spelling policy:: The redistribution uses title case and trims publisher padding. Those spellings are retained as provided. Historical validation uses uppercase NFC plus trimming only; no accents are removed and no sex categories are inferred.
Licence:: OGL-ON-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 5029a039ef2f94f7…
Landing page:: https://data.ontario.ca/en/dataset/ontario-top-baby-names-male

Snapshot ends in 2023; it is not the currently unavailable 2024 release.
The 173,873 historical observations through 2022 were checked against unmodified publisher-file copies, with no count differences or missing keys. The additional 2023 rows rely on the redistributor's source attribution.
Two historical observations spell a name as Lo¤C; they match the reference but are rejected as corrupted spellings, without guessing a replacement.
Neither mirror can be verified byte-for-byte against the currently unavailable Ontario origin. No compatible denominators imported.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Ontario. Redistribution: helloharun/Ontario-Baby-First-Names-Analysis; historical validation files: 5HT2C/ontario-baby-name-parser.

Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce — first given names of children, PESEL register, 2000-2025 (national)

Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji (Ministry of Digital Affairs), Poland — PESEL register; published on dane.gov.pl · Poland · 2000–2025 · status: imported · 35,598 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Dataset description, verbatim: « Lista imion (pierwszych i drugich) nadawanych dzieciom w Polsce z podziałem na płeć. Przedmiotowe dane zostały opracowane na podstawie informacji zgromadzonych w rejestrze PESEL. Do roku 2012 imiona z liczbą wystąpień poniżej 5 nie były umieszczane na liście, od 2013 r. granicą tą jest liczba 2. » Only the first given name ("imię pierwsze") tables at national level are imported; the 2020 file title reads « Wykaz imion męskich nadanych dzieciom urodzonym w 2020 r. wg pola imię pierwsze, statystyka ogólna dla całej Polski » (children born in the year, first-name field, whole of Poland).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated by the publisher; counts are published as integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: Verbatim from the dataset description: « Do roku 2012 imiona z liczbą wystąpień poniżej 5 nie były umieszczane na liście, od 2013 r. granicą tą jest liczba 2. » (Until 2012 names with fewer than 5 occurrences were not listed; from 2013 the limit is 2.) Absence of a name is therefore 'below threshold', never 0.
Ranking:: No ranks are published; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex over the listed names only.
Spelling policy:: Spellings are kept exactly as published: the PESEL tables publish names in upper case with Polish diacritics preserved (e.g. MIKOŁAJ, ŁUKASZ). The publisher does not document any further normalisation. Sex codes mapped by NameStoria: combined file M→M, K (kobieta)→F; annual files MĘŻCZYZNA→M, KOBIETA→F.
Licence:: CC0-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 471d8ff99756f303…
Landing page:: https://dane.gov.pl/pl/dataset/219,imiona-nadawane-dzieciom-w-polsce

First given names only; second names (imię drugie) are published separately and not imported.
National level only; voivodeship and registry-office tables exist and are not imported (and must never be summed with this table).
Threshold change in 2013 (5 → 2): the long tail is not comparable across 2012/2013.
2000-2019 come from the combined multi-year file; 2020 onward from the annual files of the year (the latest annual files, published in January of the following year). The 2019 annual files are used only for a cross-check (see notes).
The register can be updated after publication; each annual file is a snapshot at its publication date.
No denominators are published with these tables; rates are not computed.

Źródło: Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji, rejestr PESEL, dane.gov.pl (CC0 1.0; attribution not required, given as courtesy)

South Australia — Popular Baby Names, per-year lists including names given once, 1944-2017

Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · South Australia · 1944–2017 · status: imported · 229,958 rows parsed, 2,067 rejected

Universe:: Dataset record, verbatim: « List of male and female baby names in South Australia from 1944 to 2024. The annual data for baby names is published January/February each year. » Files used: the 1944-2013 archive (female_/male_cyYYYY_top.csv) and the 2014-2017 per-year CSVs (2016: the 'amended' files).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; amounts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: No threshold is stated by the publisher. The lists include names with an Amount of 1 (see notes), i.e. no minimum-count suppression is visible; whether the lists are complete is not stated (the linked metadata document returned an error). Absence of a name is 'not listed', never zero.
Ranking:: Position as published, preserved verbatim; never recomputed. A leading '=' marks a tie (stored as the number after '='); see notes for the observed pattern.
Spelling policy:: Spellings kept as published: upper case; diacritics appear only where the publisher kept them (see the character inventory in notes; some files are Windows-1252 encoded and are decoded as such). Whether the publisher strips diacritics is not stated. Registration artefacts in the early lists (e.g. '(NOT', 'J;AMI', '"BABY"') are rejected and logged, not imported. Sex codes from the file names/titles: male→M, female→F.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: b8f80517145f7952…
Landing page:: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/popular-baby-names

South Australia only (region AU-SA); not Australia.
Covers 1944-2017 only; from 2018 the publisher releases top-100 lists, which are a separate dataset (sa-au-top100-*) and must not be read as a continuation of this one.
2029 rows repeat a spelling already listed for the same year and sex with a different amount and position (e.g. JOHN 1944: 477 at position 1 and 2 at position =192). The publisher does not explain this (possibly distinct registered forms collapsed by upper-casing or diacritic loss). Only the first, highest-amount row is imported; the others are in the rejected log, so these spellings' counts may be understated.
Placeholder entries published as names (e.g. BABY, UNNAMED) are kept as published; they are not given names.
Whether years are birth or registration years is not stated on the record.
No denominators imported (TOTAL footer rows appear only in some files; see notes).

Source: Attorney-General's Department, South Australia — Popular Baby Names, data.sa.gov.au, licensed under CC BY 4.0

South Australia — Top 100 Baby Names per sex, 2018-2025

Attorney-General's Department, South Australia (via data.sa.gov.au) · South Australia · 2018–2025 · status: imported · 1,606 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Dataset record, verbatim: « List of male and female baby names in South Australia from 1944 to 2024. The annual data for baby names is published January/February each year. » Files used: 'Top 100 Baby Names YYYY - Male/Female' (2018 onward).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; amounts are integers (valueStatus=observed).
Suppression:: Only the top 100 per sex is published (ties can extend or shorten the list around position 100). A name absent from a year's list was not in that year's top 100: count unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: Position as published, preserved verbatim; never recomputed. A leading '=' marks a tie (stored as the number after '='); see notes for the observed pattern.
Spelling policy:: Spellings kept as published: upper case; diacritics appear only where the publisher kept them (see the character inventory in notes; some files are Windows-1252 encoded and are decoded as such). Whether the publisher strips diacritics is not stated. Registration artefacts in the early lists (e.g. '(NOT', 'J;AMI', '"BABY"') are rejected and logged, not imported. Sex codes from the file names/titles: male→M, female→F.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 6bc120c5ca245a54…
Landing page:: https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/popular-baby-names

South Australia only (region AU-SA); not Australia.
Top-100 lists only; for 1944-2017 see the separate full-list dataset (sa-au-1944-2017).
Placeholder entries published as names (e.g. BABY, UNNAMED) are kept as published; they are not given names.
Whether years are birth or registration years is not stated on the record.
No denominators imported (TOTAL footer rows appear only in some files; see notes).

Source: Attorney-General's Department, South Australia — Popular Baby Names, data.sa.gov.au, licensed under CC BY 4.0

Sweden — grouped top 100 newborn calling names, 1998–2022

Statistics Sweden (SCB) · Sweden · 1998–2022 · status: imported · 5,014 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Newborns by naming year and their calling name (tilltalsnamn), SCB TAB619/BE0001T05AR. A calling name need not be the first name in registration order; this series is kept separate from other publishers' first-position counts.
Measurement:: births-calling-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Null/.. cells are not published outside the top 100. Missing observations stay unknown. Duplicate top-ten categories are excluded in favour of top-100 categories.
Ranking:: Published ranks retained, including ties. Not recomputed from alphabetical order.
Spelling policy:: SCB combines spelling variants and labels each group with the most common spelling in the whole population. Every observation is marked grouped; counts do not represent that spelling alone.
Licence:: CC0-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se/pxweb/sv/ssd/START__BE__BE0001__BE0001D/BE0001T05AR/

Historical series ending in 2022; this is not the latest Swedish newborn release. Later Skatteverket data has not been merged into it.
Newborn calling names and grouped spellings differ from first-position, individual-spelling series.
SCB labels this table as not part of Sweden's certified official statistics category, although SCB publishes it.
No compatible denominators supplied in these tables; none inferred.

Source: Statistics Sweden (SCB), TAB619, updated 2023-01-31. Published grouped counts and ranks retained; reformatted by NameStoria.

SSA national baby names, 1880–2025 (CC0 redistribution)

US Social Security Administration; redistributed by nkrishnaswami · United States · 1880–2025 · status: imported · 2,181,032 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: US national Social Security card applications by name, sex and birth year; not a complete birth registry, especially before 1937.
Measurement:: ssa-card-applications
Rounding:: Integer application counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Only names with at least 5 occurrences in a year and sex are included. Missing observations are not zeros.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. The mirror's derived rank column is not used.
Spelling policy:: SSA spellings retained exactly; no accent folding, spelling-group merging or gender reassignment.
Licence:: CC0-1.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: dd977bb365a903fa…
Landing page:: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

The official ZIP returned HTTP 403 from this environment; this release uses a pinned, explicitly attributed redistribution.
The redistribution cannot be verified byte-for-byte against the blocked official ZIP. Its published ETL retains counts and adds ranks; the 2025 top five per sex were checked against SSA's publication.
No compatible denominators imported; early-year coverage is incomplete.

Source: US Social Security Administration. CC0 redistribution: nkrishnaswami/us-ssa-baby-names-national (Hugging Face).

Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025

Statistics Norway (SSB) · Norway · 1945–2025 · status: imported · 91,581 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Born persons for the individual girls' and boys' names published in SSB table 10467.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: SSB API: '.' means category not applicable; '..' means data not available. Null cells are not emitted and remain unknown, never zero.
Ranking:: computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips
Spelling policy:: Individual spellings retained exactly as labelled by SSB; not the spelling groups in the headline top-ten table.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://www.ssb.no/en/statbank1/table/10467

Only names published in table 10467 are covered; this is not a list of every name ever registered.
Count observations begin in 1945. The table advertises years from 1880, but earlier count cells are unavailable; percentage-only history is not imported.
No compatible birth denominators imported. Historical coverage and missing cells follow the publisher.

Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467. Ranks computed by NameStoria; individual spelling counts retained.

Belgium — published top 100 newborn first names, 2023–2025

Statbel (Statistics Belgium) · Belgium · 2023–2025 · status: imported · 603 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Girls and boys born in Belgium in 2023, 2024 and 2025, as labelled in Statbel's national Top 100 table. Includes boundary ties.
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Suppression:: Statbel publishes frequencies of at least five; this import is additionally truncated to the website's top-100 lists. Missing names are unknown, not zero.
Ranking:: Published competition ranks and boundary ties retained unchanged; top-ten or alphabetical positions are not substituted for ranks.
Spelling policy:: Exact table spellings retained, including accents. Distinct spellings such as Leon and Léon remain separate.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: unknown · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: not recorded
Landing page:: https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/population/family-names-and-first-names/first-names-boys-and-girls

Only 2023–2025 national top-100 tables imported; the 1995-onwards workbooks remain pending because their download responses require a CAPTCHA.
Source is a checksum-verified rendered browser DOM table snapshot, not a downloaded XLSX or original HTTP response. HTTP status remains undocumented/null in its provenance.
Public table capture and licence review are documented; no automated CAPTCHA solving or copied browser credentials used.
No compatible national birth denominators supplied in the captured table; none inferred from top-100 sums.

Statistik Austria — Vornamen (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1): first names of live births, Austria, 1984-2025 (national counts from district rows)

Statistik Austria (Bundesanstalt Statistik Österreich) · Austria · 1984–2025 · status: imported · 201,352 rows parsed, 0 rejected

Universe:: Metadata page, verbatim: « Erste Vornamen Neugeborener nach Geburtsjahr, Geschlecht und politischem Bezirk ab 1984: 1984 bis 2009 nur Babys mit österreichischer Staatsbürgerschaft; ab 2010 alle Babys. Die regionale Zuordnung zum politischen Bezirk erfolgt nach dem Wohnort der Mutter zum Zeitpunkt der Geburt. » English title on the page: « First names by year of birth, sex and administrative district: 1984-2009 only babys with austrian nationality; from 2010 onwards all babys. » Attribute F-ANZAHL_LGEB: « Anzahl Lebendgeborene » (number of live births).
Measurement:: births-first-given-name
Rounding:: No rounding stated; counts are integers (valueStatus=observed). National counts are computed by NameStoria as the sum of the published district rows plus the GEH row for the same name/sex/year (the file has no national total row); see notes for the overlap check.
Suppression:: Metadata page, verbatim: « Bei Vornamen, die pro Jahr seltener als vier Mal vorkommen, wird nur die Anzahl pro Jahr für Österreich angezeigt. » (« For first names that occur less than four times per year, only the number per year for Austria is displayed. ») These rows carry district code GEH. No name is withheld at national level, so national counts are complete as published.
Ranking:: No ranks are published; computed by NameStoria from published counts; ties share a rank, next rank skips. Computed per year and sex over the national counts.
Spelling policy:: Spellings kept exactly as published in F-VORNAME_NORMALISIERT (« Vorname normalisiert »): mixed case. Statistik Austria publishes a normalised spelling and does not document the normalisation on the metadata page; the published character set contains only ASCII letters, hyphen and the German umlauts ä ö ü Ä Ö Ü (no other diacritics: e.g. Chloe, Rene appear without accents), so other diacritics appear to be stripped by the publisher. The normalised form must not be treated as the registered orthography. Sex codes: 1 (männlich)→M, 2 (weiblich)→F.
Licence:: CC-BY-4.0
Release:: 2026-07-09 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Checksum:: 49c277575ff669e5…
Landing page:: https://data.statistik.gv.at/web/meta.jsp?dataset=OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1

Universe change in 2010: 1984-2009 Austrian-citizen babies only, from 2010 all babies (break in series).
Spellings are the publisher's normalised form (diacritics other than umlauts absent); distinct registered spellings may be merged.
National counts are sums of the district partition plus the national-only GEH rows (within one file of one publisher); district-level data is not imported.
District allocation is by the mother's residence; whether births to mothers resident abroad are included is not stated on the metadata page (unverified).
No denominators are published in this dataset; rates are not computed.

Datenquelle: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at

Rules we apply

A birth-name series is not a living-population count, and a national dataset is not a worldwide estimate.

Published values and ranks are preserved as released. We never recompute an official rank from rounded counts.

A missing year is a gap, never a zero. Absence from a published file can mean suppression, truncation or no coverage.

Rates per million are shown only when a compatible published denominator matches the region, recorded category and year. Scotland's NRS series includes these totals; other series may have none.

A spelling may carry several unrelated etymologies; statistics count the spelling and are never split between them.

Transliterations are search aids. They never merge records or prove derivation.

Popularity labels always name their region and year. There is no global rarity score.

Pages are generated from source records. No meaning, date or quote is written in without a citation.

Measured coverage

Name records

659,211

With sourced meaning or etymology

9,705

With IPA

42,430

With cleared audio

10,681

Language contexts

642

Writing systems

Datasets imported

Reviewed claims

Languages and scripts in the catalogue

Source registry

All candidates evaluated so far, including those we decided not to use. Nothing is marked production-approved.

Source	Role	Decision	Rights
Wikidata: names and linked entities	Linguistic identity and relationships	First-wave import candidate	CC0 structured data; linked text and media have separate rights.
Kaikki / Wiktextract / Wiktionary	Etymology, lexical forms, pronunciation metadata	First-wave import candidate	Retain the applicable Wiktionary edition/revision licence and attribution; extraction-software licensing is separate.
Wikimedia Commons	Human pronunciation recordings and contextual images	First-wave asset candidate	File-specific rights and attribution must be recorded before publishing.
EDRDG JMnedict / ENAMDICT	Japanese written names, readings, classifications	First-wave specialist import candidate	EDRDG publishes CC BY-SA 4.0 terms allowing commercial use with conditions; verify the selected distribution and components.
US Social Security Administration	US naming observations	First-wave statistics candidate	Record the applicable agency reuse terms; no specific licence ID assigned in this audit.
France INSEE: Fichier des prénoms	Birth names, national/regional/departmental	First-wave statistics candidate	Open-data publication documented; exact release-level reuse terms still need to be recorded.
ONS England and Wales	Registered baby-name counts and ranks	First-wave statistics candidate	Dataset pages display Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated.
Statistics Canada: 17-10-0147-01	Canadian first names at birth	First-wave statistics candidate	Statistics Canada Open Licence supports reuse subject to its conditions, including attribution and no re-identification.
Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), Spain	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Elaboración propia con datos extraídos del sitio web del INE: www.ine.es. Updated 2026-04-23; reference date 2025-01-01. CC BY 4.0. Counts retained; ranks computed by NameStoria.
Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Central Statistics Office, Ireland (VSA50 and VSA60), CC BY 4.0. Reformatted by NameStoria; counts and published ranks unchanged.
Statistics Norway (SSB)	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467. Ranks computed by NameStoria; individual spelling counts retained.
Statistics Denmark (Danmarks Statistik)	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	Statistics Denmark attribution terms (commercial and non-commercial reuse permitted); Source: Statistics Denmark. Published spelling groups, counts and ranks retained; tables reformatted by NameStoria.
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: DVV / Population Information System, extracted 2026-08-04, CC BY 4.0. NameStoria reformats first-name counts and computes ranks.
Brazil IBGE Names API v2	Census-derived historical name frequencies	Second-wave candidate; vintage check required	Verify applicable API/data terms and current-release coverage before production.
Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources	Historical given-name attestations	Reference/permission candidate, not approved bulk source	Commercial bulk-reuse permission was not established.
Oxford Lexicon of Greek Personal Names	Ancient Greek attestations and historical bearers	Reference/permission candidate, not approved bulk source	Commercial reuse of the selected data was not established.
Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries	Scholarly lexical roots and historical/literary names	Edition-specific specialist research candidate	Licence and underlying-work rights must be checked separately for each selected edition.
Meertens Nederlandse Voornamenbank	Dutch names, population and historical context	Reference/partnership candidate	Do not assume reuse permission for the database or third-party dictionary explanations.
Europeana APIs and collections	Historical objects, records, and images	Second-wave metadata and rights-filtered enrichment	Metadata is CC0; digital objects and previews have item-specific rights.
Library of Congress JSON/YAML API	Archival and digitized-object discovery	Second-wave research candidate	Individual object rights must be assessed; API access is not blanket media permission.
Natural Earth	Base map geometry only	First-wave visual infrastructure candidate	Public-domain base-map data.
Harvard China Biographical Database	Chinese historical people and naming information	Hold: explicit permission required	Official licensing page contains noncommercial/exclusive-commercial restrictions.
philipperemy/name-dataset	Social-network-derived names	Excluded	Unacceptable provenance for the proposed ingestion plan.
Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Switzerland	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	opendata.swiss OPEN-BY (commercial and non-commercial reuse with source attribution); Source: Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Female and male first names of newborns by language region and canton (BEVNAT), SDMX flows DF_BEVNAT_PRENOMS_1 and _2. https://opendata.swiss/en/dataset/weibliche-vornamen-der-neugeborenen-nach-sprachregion-und-kanton1 . Tables reformatted by NameStoria; published counts and ranks retained.
BerlinOnline GmbH, based on Berlin LABO civil-registry data	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-3.0-DE; BerlinOnline GmbH, auf Basis von Daten des Berliner Landesamtes für Bürger- und Ordnungsangelegenheiten (LABO). https://github.com/berlin/haeufige-vornamen-berlin, revision 34ce79c5eccb7bc1f24087a7a3edb1a100bf39e4. NameStoria aggregates published position-1 counts and computes ranks.
Department of Internal Affairs (DIA), New Zealand	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Department of Internal Affairs, New Zealand, Top 100 boys' names and Top 100 girls' names, 1954–2025, CC BY 4.0. PDF table coordinates extracted by NameStoria; published names, counts and printed ranks retained.
Statistics Sweden (SCB)	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography and population scope	Imported statistics source	CC0-1.0; Source: Statistics Sweden (SCB), TAB619, updated 2023-01-31. Published grouped counts and ranks retained; reformatted by NameStoria.
Statbel (Statistics Belgium)	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography, population and coverage gaps	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Statbel (Directorate-General Statistics – Statistics Belgium), national Top 100 table. CC BY 4.0. Rendered table captured and reformatted by NameStoria; published names, counts and ranks unchanged.
Hungarian Central Statistical Office (KSH), from Ministry of Interior register data	Published name-popularity observations with explicit geography, population and coverage gaps	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Központi Statisztikai Hivatal (KSH), Az 50 leggyakrabban választott fiú és lány utónév a 2000-ben és 2025-ben született gyermekek körében, based on Belügyminisztérium register data. CC BY 4.0. NameStoria extracts table columns, expands PDF font ligatures and excludes one documented conflicting count.
Istituto Nazionale di Statistica (Istat)	Published national registered newborn name observations	Imported statistics source	CC-BY-4.0; Source: Istat, Conta nomi, Iscritti in anagrafe per nascita. CC BY 4.0. NameStoria retains published names and counts and computes competition ranks from them.
Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (Armstat)	Published national registered newborn name observations	Imported statistics source	Armstat PX table metadata: COPYRIGHT=NO (no standard licence version stated); Source: Statistical Committee of the Republic of Armenia (Armstat), ArmStatBank tables PS-pp-11 and PS-pp-9, 2003–2025. Both source PX files explicitly state COPYRIGHT=NO. NameStoria reformats the data, trims surrounding label spaces and computes ranks over the published positive counts.
Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado (IRN), Portugal	Annual Top 20 given-name registrations, 2017–2023	Imported statistics source	Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (publisher does not specify a version); Source: Instituto dos Registos e do Notariado, Registo de Nomes (Masculino) and Registo de Nomes (Feminino), dados.justica.gov.pt. Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike, as labelled by the publisher. NameStoria reformats the tables and computes competition ranks; source spellings and counts are unchanged. The adapted statistics tables retain the publisher’s attribution and share-alike terms.
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands	Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025	Imported statistics source	Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated; see data/manifests/stats3-svb-rights.json; assessment is explicitly an inference, not a publisher-issued CC licence.

Media credits

10,681 names carry rights-cleared recordings; each name page lists the creator and licence of its own files. A sample:

File:Gur-A-%C9%9Btareg%C9%9B.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aad.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aadje.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aafje.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aafke.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q9027_(swe)-Moonhouse-Aage.wav — Speaker: Moonhouse; Recorder: Moonhouse, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aagje.ogg — GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aagtje.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-aal.ogg — GerardM, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aalbert.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aalbrecht.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aalderik.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:De-Aalderk.ogg — Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aaldert.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aaldrik.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aalrik.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:De-Aaners.ogg — Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aard.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aardse.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aarnout.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:De-Aaron.ogg — Arnim Faryn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:De-Aaron2.ogg — Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-Aaron_(alt).wav — Speaker: Naomi Persephone Amethyst; Recorder: NaomiAmethyst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Naomi Persephone Amethyst; Recorder: NaomiAmethyst, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Vealhurl; Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:En-Aaron.ogg — Yndtbt, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q150_(fra)-Lepticed7-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Lepticed7; Recorder: Lepticed7, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q150_(fra)-Mecanautes-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Mecanautes; Recorder: Mecanautes, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Pl-Aaron.ogg — Wyksztalcioch, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q1860_(eng)-Grendelkhan-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Grendelkhan; Recorder: Grendelkhan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q150_(fra)-Le_Commissaire-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Le Commissaire; Recorder: Le Commissaire, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q188_(deu)-Mukeber-Aaron.wav — Speaker: Mukeber; Recorder: Mukeber, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-A%C3%A4ron.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aart.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q9027_(swe)-Moonhouse-Aasa.wav — Speaker: Moonhouse; Recorder: Moonhouse, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q9027_(swe)-Moonhouse-Aase.wav — Speaker: Moonhouse; Recorder: Moonhouse, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:De-Aase.ogg — Arnim Faryn, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:De-Aase2.ogg — Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Nl-Aat.ogg — Marcel Coenders, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Hu-Aba.ogg — Panda10, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Gur-Aba%27ambire.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Gur-Aba%27ambila.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Gur-Aba%27ampika.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Gur-Aba%27amp%C9%94ka.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Gur-Aba%27anemah.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Gur-Aba%27an%C9%9B.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Gur-Aba%27ar%C9%9B.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:De-Abachum.ogg — Jeuwre, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q809_(pol)-Jest_Spoczko-Abachum.wav — Speaker: Jest Spoczko; Recorder: Jest Spoczko, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:LL-Q652_(ita)-XANA000-Abacucco.wav — Speaker: XANA000; Recorder: XANA000, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Pl-Abakuk.ogg — user Equadus (inactive global account), CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

File:Gur-Abazigera.ogg — Akolpoka, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Map geometry: Natural Earth (public domain) via the world-atlas package; geometry vintage is recorded in the repository.

The decorative coastal landscape on the homepage was created with OpenAI ImageGen. It is an illustration of the site’s theme, rather than evidence about a name or place.