All data comes with limitations. In the case of baby names, many countries will only publish a limited dataset. For example, in the UK, any birth name with an occurence of two or less in a year is not published due to privacy reasons.
Belgium | 1995-2022 "Remark: we provide figures only as from a frequency of 5." Source: Statbel |
Canada | 1991-2022 "" Source: Statistics Canada |
England and Wales | 1996-2022 "Names with a count of 2 or less in total within England and Wales have been redacted using S40 of the Freedom of Information Act in order to protect the confidentiality of individuals. This is consistent with the disclosure control methodology used for our birth statistics." Source: ONS |
France | 1900-2022 "Over the period from 1900 to 2022, the first name was assigned at least 20 times to female people and/or at least 20 times to male people" Source: INSEE |
Italy | 2020-2022 "" Source: |
Netherlands | 2017-2022 "To protect privacy, you will only find names that appear 25 times or more." Source: Sociale Verzekeringsbank |
New Zealand | 1900-2022 "Where a name has less than 10 instances in a particular year, the name will not be included in the data for that year. Due to this, total volumes will be less than the total birth registrations in that year." Source: data.govt.nz |
Northern Ireland | 1997-2022 "" Source: NISRA |
Norway | 1945-2022 "Figures under 4 persons are not published." Source: Statistik Sentralbyra |
Poland | 2000-2022 "" Source: Otwarte Dane |
Republic of Ireland | 1964-2022 "" Source: Central Statistics Office |
Scotland | 1974-2020 "" Source: NRS |
Slovenia | 1992-2022 "The names of live births above a certain threshold, which has been 5 or more names since 1995, are shown." Source: SiStat |
Spain | 2002-2022 "100 most frequent names of newborns" Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica |
Sweden | 1998-2022 "For the period 2004 and forward, includes first names normally used with at least two persons with this name of the same sex among newborns named that year. For the period 1998-2003, includes first names normally used with at least ten persons with this name of the same sex among newborns named that year. Each spelling variant of a name is presented as a unique name." Source: Statistik Databasen |
United States of America | 1880-2021 "" Source: SSA |