Female Baby Name Popularity in Ontario from 1913 to 2024

Ontario birth registrations from 1913 to 2024 provide counts for female first names, with privacy suppression for totals under five. This longitudinal dataset, compiled by the Government of Ontario, tracks naming trends across more than a century.

Use Cases

• Analyze long-term popularity cycles for specific female first names using the annual count data from 1913 to 2024.
• Identify regional or temporal naming trends by comparing this female name dataset with the related male name dataset for Ontario.
• Model the adoption and decline of female names over time as a cultural signal using the provided historical counts.

Strengths

• Covers 112 years of historical data from 1913 to 2024, enabling long-term trend analysis.
• Sourced from official Government of Ontario birth registrations, providing authoritative records.
• Privacy-protected by suppressing counts for names with fewer than 5 occurrences.

Limitations

• Exact row counts and column details are unknown, limiting precise assessment of dataset scale.
• Suppression of low-frequency names (counts <5) removes tail data, potentially biasing analyses of rare names.
• Data is limited to the province of Ontario and may not reflect naming trends in other regions.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Collection Method

Compiled from first names in births registered in Ontario.

Time Range

1913 to 2024

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Ontario, Canada