Baby First Names Registered in Northern Ireland, 1997-2016

1997-2016 lists of first forenames given to babies registered in Northern Ireland, collated from live birth registrations. The data was published by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Analyze naming trends over time based on the 1997-2016 time range.
• Compare the popularity of boys' and girls' names based on the separate lists mentioned in the description.
• Study cultural and demographic shifts in Northern Ireland based on birth registration data.

Strengths

• Covers a 20-year time span from 1997 to 2016.
• Data is sourced from official live birth registrations in Northern Ireland.
• Published under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias inherent to the source.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Collated from live birth registrations.

Time Range

1997-2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:45.695803; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Ireland