FOI/2022/4374
You asked
I am writing to you under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to request the following information. Please may you provide me with:
The baby names which are declining / dying out over the last 10 years, by city.
E.g. Sheffield has 50 people with the name Gary in 2020 Vs 100 people in 2018.
Around 50 - 100 names where possible.
Please provide the information in the form of an online document, excel/google sheets or the best way possible.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry,
We publish the following baby name analysis annually: Baby names in England and Wales. This include datasets for baby boys and girls, available via the following links: Baby names for boys and Baby names for girls.
Table 4 in each data set shows annual figures of the top 10 baby names by region of the usual residence of the mother.
Table 7 shows most popular name by area of usual residence of mother by unitary authorities, districts, and London Boroughs.
We also publish user requested datasets, which may be of interest to you and have produced the interactive data visualisation tool enables users to visually compare changes in the popularity of different names since 1996.
Our baby names explorer enables users to compare changes in the top 100 baby names for boys and girls since 1904.
We have not conducted analysis of baby names by popularity, city and year; however, we may be able to create this as a bespoke request. Please note that once extracts have been extracted there may be some elements that cannot be released due to small numbers and disclosure controls. However, we can discuss this with you once the data has been excised.
Special extracts and tabulations of baby names for England and Wales are available to order, subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreement to costs under the ONS charging policy, where appropriate. Such enquiries should be made to HALE Customer Services team via email to Health.Data@ons.gov.uk or by telephone on +44 1329 444110.