UK Baby Names Data

Full listing of UK baby names occurring more than three times per year between 1974 and 2020, and rankings of baby name popularity by decade from 1904 to 1994.

ukbabynames

This package contains five datasets:

• ewbabynames: For each year from 1996 to 2020, the number of children of each sex given each name in England and Wales. All names with more than 3 uses are included. Provided by the UK Office of National Statistics.

• nibabynames: For each year from 1997 to 2020, the number of children of each sex given each name in Northern Ireland. Provided by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.

• scotbabynames: For each year from 1974 to 2020, the number of children of each sex given each name in Scotland. Provided by the National Records of Scotland.

• ukbabynames: Each of the above datasets is bound into one dataset with an added nation column based on which dataset it came from.

• rankings: A longitudinal dataset containing the top-100 baby girl and top-100 baby boy names over the period 1904 to 1994, only in England and Wales.

It is inspired by Hadley Wickham’s babynames package.

Installation

You can install the released version of ukbabynames from CRAN with:

install.packages("ukbabynames")

You can install the development version of openintro from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mine-cetinkaya-rundel/ukbabynames")