Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications. National data 1880 onwards and state data 1910 onwards, released annually each May. Public domain. Names with fewer than five occurrences in a year are withheld nationally, and the same threshold applies within each state.
Office for National Statistics, baby names for England and Wales. 1996 to 2025, published annually. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. These are full lists rather than a top thousand: every name given to three or more babies in a year is included, which is why British name pages often show figures the American ones cannot.
National Records of Scotland, babies' first names. 1974 to 2020, full lists. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Central Statistics Office, Irish babies' names. 1998 to 2019, the names reaching the top of each year rather than a full list. Contains Irish Public Sector Information licensed under CC BY 4.0.
INSEE, fichier des prénoms. 1900 to 2025, every first name given to at least three babies, which makes it the deepest European series here. Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0.
Statistics Norway, table 10467. Births by first name, every name given to at least four babies in a year. Licensed under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data 2.0.
US Census Bureau, 2010 surname file: every surname held by a hundred people or more, public domain. Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary: a public-domain phonetic lexicon of North American English, which we convert from ARPAbet to IPA.
Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Spain and Italy all publish name statistics under open licences, but none of them exposes a stable file URL we could fetch without a person clicking through the site first, so they are not here yet. Germany and the Netherlands have no open national statistic at all: any German figures we publish will be licensed from the private compilers who collect them, and labelled as such. Ireland Statistics Office, 1964 onwards. France: INSEE fichier des prénoms, 1900 onwards. Sweden: Statistics Sweden. Norway: Statistics Norway. Denmark: Statistics Denmark. Belgium: Statbel. Spain: INE. Italy: ISTAT.
Germany has no official national name statistic. Any German figures published here will be licensed from the private compilers who collect them, and labelled as such.
Meanings and origins are written by our editors from standard onomastic scholarship. They are not copied from another names website.