BDM Data: Change of Name Registrations in New South Wales

Change of name registration data from the NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages. The data reflects the total number of registrations completed, not the number of actual life events. The dataset is licensed under CC-BY-4.0 and was last updated on 2026-05-28.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in name change applications based on registration counts.
• Study administrative processing volumes for name change services.
• Assess demographic shifts related to personal identity changes.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages.
• Dataset is licensed under the permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded as 2026-05-28 08:06:10.546318.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-28 08:06:10.546318; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia