UK Baby Names

This package contains two datasets provided by the UK Office of National Statistics:

• ukbabynames: For each year from 1996 to 2015, the number of children of each sex given each name. All names with more than 3 uses are included.

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

It is inspired by Hadley Wickham’s babynames package.

Installation

ukbabynames is on CRAN. To install the latest version, simply use:

install.packages("ukbabynames")

To install the latest development version of ukbabynames from GitHub:

# latest (potentially unstable) version from GitHub
if (!require("ghit")) {
    install.packages("ghit")
}
ghit::install_github("leeper/ukbabynames")