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Browse the Data Behind Every Name

Baby Names
Baby Name History
Data Science
Feature Launch
August 17, 2026

Every popularity number Namey shows you traces back to an official government birth register. Our new datasets pages make those sources browsable, instead of leaving them buried behind the numbers.

Browse the Datasets

Six Registers, Six Stories

  • Ireland — Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ireland · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Explore Irish baby name popularity from 1964 to 2021, drawn from annual birth registration statistics published by Ireland's CSO.
  • England & Wales — Office for National Statistics (ONS) · Open Government Licence v3.0. Explore baby name popularity in England and Wales from 1996 to 2021, based on live birth registrations published by the ONS.Covers England and Wales only — Scottish births are registered separately by National Records of Scotland (see the Scotland dataset).
  • United States — US Social Security Administration (SSA) · Public domain (US Government work). Explore American baby name popularity from 1880 to 2014, based on Social Security card applications collected by the SSA.
  • France — INSEE — Fichier des prénoms · Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0. Explore French baby name popularity from 1900 to 2018, drawn from INSEE's Fichier des prénoms birth registration dataset.
  • Norway — Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467 · Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD). Explore Norwegian baby name popularity from 1880 to 2024, sourced from Statistics Norway's official population statistics.
  • Scotland — National Records of Scotland — Babies' First Names · Open Government Licence v3.0. Explore Scottish baby name popularity from 1974 to 2025, based on birth registration data from National Records of Scotland.
  • Austria — Statistics Austria (Statistik Austria) · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Explore Austrian baby name popularity from 1984 to 2025, based on birth statistics published by Statistics Austria.From 1984 to 2009 the data covers babies with Austrian citizenship only; from 2010 onwards it covers all babies born in Austria. Names given fewer than four times in a year are reported at national level only.

What Each Dataset Page Shows

Every dataset page is built from the same set of live statistics:

  • The first and last year of coverage
  • The number of distinct names recorded
  • Total births recorded, split by boys and girls
  • A births-per-year chart showing the two curves side by side
  • The top 50 boys' and girls' names for the whole period
  • The date the dataset was last imported

Provenance Matters

Coverage boundaries are real. The ONS dataset covers England and Wales only — Scottish births are registered separately by National Records of Scotland, which is why Namey lists Scotland as its own dataset.

The US figures come from Social Security card applications rather than birth certificates, so the earliest years under-count births that weren't promptly registered for a Social Security number.

Every source is openly licensed, and we print the licence right on each page so you can see exactly what you're allowed to do with the data.

Always Current

These numbers aren't a static snapshot — they're computed live from the imported data, so re-importing a dataset immediately updates the page. Head over to /datasets to explore all six sources, or read our earlier post, Sourcing Name Data, for more on where this data comes from.