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Some extraordinarily good news for Victorian name watchers – Victoria has publicly released its entire name data for 2012. That is, all names that were used more than 5 times.
You can now check to see how many babies in Victoria were given any name in 2012, whether it be Ada or Zol. If the name doesn’t appear, then it means it was used five or less times, and is therefore considered very rare.
There were 696 names given to girls, and 650 given to boys, but it seemed to me that the boys had a more exotic selection of names.
The birth data has been made available through the Herald Sun. Click this link to see the complete name data.
Blue Juniper from Baby Name Ponderings has very kindly turned the raw data into a spreadsheet, so you can see the rankings for each name. You can also see the Top 100 names already!
Complete Name Data from Victoria (courtesy of Blue Juniper)
I’m guessing quite a few people’s wishes will have come true with this announcement, so if this news pleases you, it might be a nice gesture to drop a line to Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria and let them know you appreciate their generosity.
And thank you very much to Blue Juniper – it would be nice if you thanked her as well!
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I was just looking at the list for girls and was surprised not to find Charlotte in it. Then I noticed there is no Charlie or Cora either. Do you think it is possible that a few “C” names are missing from the list that should be there?
Also, there is no number for Amalia (my best friend’s daughter name).
Sorry, I downloaded the data from a previous link of the names for girls that doesn’t seem to be here anymore. It was the raw data. I can see that all these names appear in the Herald Sun link. Ignore my previos comment please.
Click again on the data – it’s much improved. 🙂
Thanks for the lists, glad to see my daughters name not on their 🙂 don’t think it will ever go popular anyway 🙂 do you think this this encourage other states to do the same? I asked for names up to 5 in NZ but was told they don’t release due to privacy reasons?
I hope it will encourage other states, but as most have smaller populations, it probably WOULD give away too many people’s identity.
Western Australia and Queensland only give out a Top 50 and a Top 30, because even a Top 100 is considered a privacy risk.
I’m quite excited to see that my daughter Emmeline’s name didn’t make the list! I guess my triplets balance each other out a bit, Jack 490, Hugo 87 and Emmeline no more than 5… But in the end my opinion is if you love it go for it!
Oh and it is so interesting to see that so many multicultural names are making there way onto the list, it’s a true testament to Victoria embracing so many cultures!
Even though they are all at different levels of popularity, Jack, Hugo and Emmeline sound perfect together! 🙂
I was a little surprised to see boys seemed to be much more likely to get a heritage name than girls – either parents are more likely to give a girl a name that “fits in”, or else girls are more likely to be given a very rare or unique heritage name which didn’t make the list. Maybe there’s a lot of boys being named after a relative compared to girls?
It’s almost more fun seeing what names DIDN’T make it on the list 🙂
It’s amazing to see how many great names don’t get used more than five times a year – and I mean “regular” names! Lots of scope for the popularity-phobic.