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")
install.packages("ukbabynames", repos = c('https://mine-cetinkaya-rundel.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))