SOURCES.md

Sources

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source	rows	countries	license	retrieved	homepage
ar-names	893,425	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://datos.gob.ar/dataset/otros-nombres-personas-fisicas
ar-surnames	136,757	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://datos.gob.ar/dataset/distribucion-de-apellidos-en-argentina
at-names	63,858	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://data.statistik.gv.at/web/meta.jsp?dataset=OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1
au-nsw	2,203	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/popular-baby-names-from-1952
au-sa	94,520	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/popular-baby-names
be-names	120,877	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://statbel.fgov.be/en/open-data
br-2022	393,844	1	IBGE public data; scraped dump by alexsantee/nomes_do_brasil_2022 (MIT code)	2026-10-26	https://censo2022.ibge.gov.br/nomes/
brazil	111,413	1	CC BY-SA 4.0 (Brasil.IO); source data IBGE	2026-10-26	https://brasil.io/dataset/genero-nomes/
ca-ab	74,575	1	Open Government Licence – Alberta	2026-10-26	https://open.alberta.ca/dataset/frequency-and-ranking-of-baby-names-by-year-and-gender
ca-bc	16,701	1	Open Government Licence – British Columbia	2026-10-26	https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/dataset/most-popular-girl-names-for-the-past-100-years
ca-on	33,361	1	Open Government Licence – Ontario	2026-10-26	https://data.ontario.ca/dataset/ontario-top-baby-names-female
ca-qc	15,345	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://www.donneesquebec.ca/recherche/dataset/banque-de-prenoms-filles
census	162,244	1	Public domain (US federal government work)	2026-10-26	https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html
ch-names	552,469	1	opendata.swiss terms_by (open use, must provide the source)	2026-10-26	https://opendata.swiss/en/organization/bundesamt-fur-statistik-bfs
cl-names	92,237	1	CC0 1.0 (compilation); data from Registro Civil e Identificación	2026-10-26	https://github.com/rivaquiroga/guaguas
de-cities	9,007	1	Berlin: CC BY 3.0 DE; Cologne: dl-zero-de/2.0	2026-10-26	https://github.com/berlin/haeufige-vornamen-berlin
es-names	63,206	1	CC BY 4.0 (INE)	2026-10-26	https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177009&menu=resultados&idp=1254735572981
es-surnames	85,852	1	CC BY 4.0 (INE)	2026-10-26	https://www.ine.es/dyngs/INEbase/operacion.htm?c=Estadistica_C&cid=1254736177009&menu=resultados&idp=1254735572981
faker	89,097	67	MIT (Faker contributors)	2026-10-26	https://github.com/joke2k/faker
fi-names	40,388	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://avoindata.suomi.fi/data/fi/dataset/none
fr-insee	150,864	1	Licence Ouverte 2.0	2026-10-26	https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8595130
fr-surnames	216,568	1	Licence Ouverte 2.0	2026-10-26	https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/3536630
gb-ew	91,355	1	Open Government Licence v3.0	2026-10-26	https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/datasets/babynamesinenglandandwalesfrom1996
gb-nir	6,743	1	Open Government Licence	2026-10-26	https://www.nisra.gov.uk/statistics/births-deaths-and-marriages/baby-names
gb-sct	16,085	1	Open Government Licence	2026-10-26	https://nrscotland.gov.uk/publications/
ie-cso	17,499	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://data.gov.ie/dataset/vsa50-boys-names-in-ireland-with-3-or-more-occurrences
jmnedict	342,713	1	CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG licence)	2026-10-26	https://www.edrdg.org/enamdict/enamdict_doc.html
kaikki	207,077	0	CC BY-SA 4.0 + GFDL (Wiktionary); extraction by Tatu Ylonen (wiktextract)	2026-10-26	https://kaikki.org/dictionary/rawdata.html
mimesis	99,654	47	MIT (Mimesis contributors)	2026-10-26	https://github.com/lk-geimfari/mimesis
no-ssb	24,781	1	CC BY 4.0	2026-10-26	https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/navn/statistikk/navn
nz	11,786	1	Figure.NZ re-publication of DIA data; licence not verified — check before redistributing	2026-10-26	https://catalogue.data.govt.nz/dataset/baby-name-popularity-over-time
pl-pesel	73,669	1	CC0 1.0	2026-10-26	https://dane.gov.pl/en/dataset/1667
popular	4,957	116	CC0 1.0 (compilation); underlying lists from Wikipedia	2026-10-26	https://github.com/sigpwned/popular-names-by-country-dataset
se-scb	124,029	1	CC0 1.0	2026-10-26	https://www.scb.se/be0001
ssa	412,996	1	Public domain (US federal government work)	2026-10-26	https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html
tw-surnames	2,694	1	Open Government Data License, version 1.0 (Taiwan) — per data.gov.tw	2026-10-26	https://data.gov.tw/
us-firstname-race	4,250	1	CC0 1.0	2026-10-26	https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/TYJKEZ
wikidata	2,331,123	816	CC0 1.0	2026-10-26	https://www.wikidata.org/

Per-source notes (from fetch manifests):

• ar-names — Argentina — registered given names 1922–2015 (RENAPER via datos.gob.ar). {"coverage": "every given name registered per year, incl. compound names (no sex column)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• ar-surnames — Argentina — surnames of residents, Dec 2021 (RENAPER). {"coverage": "~137k surnames, counts summed over provinces (≥10 per province)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• at-names — Austria — first given names of live births 1984–latest (Statistik Austria). {"coverage": "every first given name by sex and year (rare names pooled nationally)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• au-nsw — Australia (NSW) — popular baby names 1952–latest (top 100 per sex). {"coverage": "top 100 given names per sex and year", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• au-sa — Australia (South Australia) — baby names 1944–2013. {"coverage": "full given-name lists per sex and year", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• be-names — Belgium — first names and surnames of the population (Statbel). {"coverage": "per-municipality counts (≥5 per cell) summed nationally; slight undercount of rare names", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• br-2022 — Brazil — Censo 2022 'Nomes no Brasil' (IBGE), national given names and surnames. {"coverage": "~128k given names (by sex) and ~200k surnames, ≥20 people each", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• brazil — Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 first names). {"coverage": "Brazilian given names with counts by sex (2010 census, all ages)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• ca-ab — Canada (Alberta) — frequency and ranking of baby names 1980–latest. {"coverage": "every given name by sex and year (no suppression)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• ca-bc — Canada (British Columbia) — names of the past 100 years. {"coverage": "given names by sex and year 1924–2023 (counts <5 shown as 0)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• ca-on — Canada (Ontario) — baby names 1913–latest. {"coverage": "given names by sex and year (counts ≥5)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• ca-qc — Canada (Québec) — Banque de prénoms (Retraite Québec). {"coverage": "given names by year 1980–latest (counts <5 suppressed); see note on shared counts", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• census — US Census Bureau — 2010 surnames. {"coverage": "162k US surnames occurring ≥100 times, with counts and race/ethnicity shares", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• ch-names — Switzerland — first names by birth year and surnames of the resident population (BFS). {"coverage": "given names by sex and birth year 1915–latest; surnames by language region", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• cl-names — Chile — given names 1920–2021 (Registro Civil, via the guaguas R package). {"coverage": "every name registered per year, by sex", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• de-cities — Germany — newborn first names from city open data (Berlin 2012–2023, Cologne 2019–2022). {"coverage": "no national statistics exist; two large cities as a proxy (Berlin by district, summed)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• es-names — Spain — given names of residents with frequency ≥20 (INE). {"coverage": "~63k given names (incl. compound) by sex, with mean age; accents restored at build", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• es-surnames — Spain — surnames of residents with frequency ≥20 (INE). {"coverage": "~86k surnames; count = times used as first + second surname", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• faker — Faker person providers. {"coverage": "~85 locales; curated lists, a few with frequency weights", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null, "faker_version": "40.43.0", "locales": 86}
• fi-names — Finland — first names and surnames of Finnish citizens (DVV). {"coverage": "first given names by sex (≥5 holders) and surnames (≥20)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• fr-insee — France — Fichier des prénoms (INSEE), 1900–latest. {"coverage": "first given name of every birth by sex and year (counts rounded to 5)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null, "url": "https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/8595130/prenoms-2025-nat_csv.zip"}
• fr-surnames — France — surnames by birth decade 1891–2000 (INSEE, discontinued file). {"coverage": "219k surnames given ≥30 times, counts per birth decade (accents stripped upstream)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• gb-ew — England & Wales — baby names 1996–latest (ONS). {"coverage": "all given names with ≥3 births per year, by sex", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• gb-nir — Northern Ireland — full baby name list 1997–latest (NISRA). {"coverage": "given names by sex and registration year (counts <3 suppressed)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null, "url": "https://www.nisra.gov.uk/files/nisra/documents/2026-04/Full_Name_List_NI_97_25.xlsx"}
• gb-sct — Scotland — all names given to babies 1974–latest (NRS). {"coverage": "given names with ≥3 per year, by sex (accents stripped upstream)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null, "url": "https://nrscotland.gov.uk/media/0ytjopcq/all-names-given-to-babies-between-1974-to-2025.zip"}
• ie-cso — Ireland — boys' and girls' names with ≥3 occurrences 1964–latest (CSO VSA50/VSA60). {"coverage": "given names by sex and year, fadas kept", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• jmnedict — JMnedict (EDRDG Japanese names dictionary). {"coverage": "~400k Japanese given names and surnames with kanji, kana and romaji (no counts)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• kaikki — Wiktionary via kaikki.org wiktextract dump. {"coverage": "all Wiktionary languages' given names and surnames, with romanizations", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null, "entries": 219737}
• mimesis — Mimesis person datasets. {"coverage": "~49 locales incl. Icelandic and Kazakh; gendered surnames and patronymics where relevant", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null, "mimesis_version": "22.2.0"}
• no-ssb — Norway — births by given name 1880–latest and surnames (Statistics Norway). {"coverage": "given names with ≥4 births/year (table 10467) and surnames with >200 bearers (12891)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• nz — New Zealand — baby name popularity 1900–latest (DIA, via Figure.NZ). {"coverage": "given names registered ≥10 times per year, by sex", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• pl-pesel — Poland — first given names and surnames of living persons (PESEL register). {"coverage": "first given names by sex (≥2) and surnames in male/female forms (Kowalski/Kowalska)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• popular — Popular names by country (Wikipedia lists, compiled by sigpwned). {"coverage": "top given names for 106 countries (with year/region), top surnames for 75", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• se-scb — Sweden — first names in use and surnames, 2020 (SCB, discontinued series). {"coverage": "tilltalsnamn (name a person goes by) by sex and surnames, ≥10 bearers", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• ssa — US Social Security Administration — national baby names. {"coverage": "US given names by sex, 1880–latest (≥5 births per name/sex/year), summed per decade", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null, "mirror": "https://huggingface.co/datasets/nkrishnaswami/us-ssa-baby-names-national/resolve/main/names_ranks_counts.csv", "decades": [1880, 2020]}
• tw-surnames — Taiwan — surname statistics (Ministry of the Interior). {"coverage": "~2,700 surnames in Han characters with counts (romanized at build from other sources)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• us-firstname-race — Demographic aspects of first names (Tzioumis 2018, Harvard Dataverse). {"coverage": "race/ethnicity shares for 4,250 US first names (metadata for given/family coupling)", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null}
• wikidata — Wikidata — given/family names of people, by citizenship, sex and birth decade. {"coverage": "every current and historical state with notable citizens; romanized + native script", "countries": null, "langs": null, "file": null, "options": null, "endpoint": "https://qlever.dev/api/wikidata", "chunks": 48, "min_people": 20}