A longitudinal dataset containing the top-100 baby girl and top-100 baby boy names over the period 1904 to 1994.
Format
A data frame with 1,900 observations on 4 variables.
- name
A name.
- year
A year (1904-1994). Rankings are based upon births within that decade.
- rank
Rank of the name within decade.
- sex
Sex,
Mfor male andFfor female.
Source
Office of National Statistics. 2016. Top 100 Baby Names Historical Data.
Details
The data are released by the Office of National Statistics under the Open Government License v3.0.