Baby names
Data sources & licences
Every name in the SoftBump explorer comes from an official birth registry published under an open-data licence. Meanings and origins for the ~200 most popular picks are curated by hand from widely-cited etymological references.
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United States
- Producer
- Social Security Administration
- Period
- 1880 – 2008
- Licence
- Public domain (US federal government)
- Source
- https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/
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England & Wales
- Producer
- Office for National Statistics
- Period
- 1996 – 2021
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
- Source
- https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesinenglandandwalesfrom1996
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France
- Producer
- INSEE — Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques
- Period
- 1900 – 2022
- Licence
- Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0
- Source
- https://www.data.gouv.fr/datasets/fichier-des-prenoms-depuis-1900
Names appearing in more than one registry are shown with the flags of every country where they've been recorded. Popularity is a combined rank across all sources.