This package contains five datasets:
ewbabynames: For each year from 1996 to 2020, the
number of children of each sex given each name in England and Wales. All
names with more than 3 uses are included. Provided by the UK Office of
National Statistics.
nibabynames: For each year from 1997 to 2020, the
number of children of each sex given each name in Northern Ireland.
Provided by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research
Agency.
scotbabynames: For each year from 1974 to 2020, the
number of children of each sex given each name in Scotland. Provided by
the National Records of Scotland.
ukbabynames: Each of the above datasets is bound
into one dataset with an added nation column based on which dataset it
came from.
rankings: A longitudinal dataset containing the
top-100 baby girl and top-100 baby boy names over the period 1904 to
1994, only in England and Wales.
It is inspired by Hadley Wickham’s babynames package.
You can install the released version of ukbabynames from CRAN with:
install.packages("ukbabynames")You can install the development version of openintro from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mine-cetinkaya-rundel/ukbabynames")