Popular Baby Names in Australia

This repository is a collection of the top 100 baby names in Australia from various open data sets.

If you have noticed some mistakes or bugs, or maybe you have any suggestions please create an issue.

This API is meant to be a read-only web API. It is intentional for files to be stored this way (json format) as it avoids using any database engine.

Introduction

The data consists of a ranked list of the top 100 male and female baby names with frequency counts for every year since 2008.

The aim of this API is to provide static information that will be consumed by other applications.

Data Sets Sources

Dataset	Source	License
QLD	https://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/top-100-baby-names
TAS	https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-dga-a37db87d-6bbb-4fb1-96a4-224266b757b8/details
VIC	Data Vic Australia	Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
NSW	Data NSW Australia	Creative Commons Attribution
SA	Data SA Australia	Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

List of End Points

The current base url is https://jianliew.me/popular-baby-names-australia/

State	End Point	Status
VIC	/data/vic/all.json	x	Test

*x denotes that the data is complete based on the available open data

Usage Example

curl https://jianliew.me/popular-baby-names-australia/data/vic/all.json

would result

[
    {
        "position": 1,
        "name": "William",
        "count": 551,
        "sex": "MALE",
        "year": 2009
    },
    {
        "position": 1,
        "name": "Olivia",
        "count": 432,
        "sex": "FEMALE",
        "year": 2009
    },
    {
        "position": 2,
        "name": "Jack",
        "count": 534,
        "sex": "MALE",
        "year": 2009
    }...

It is also possible to query the specific year

curl https://jianliew.me/popular-baby-names-australia/data/vic/2020.json

would return

[
  {
    "position": 1,
    "name": "Oliver",
    "count": 546,
    "sex": "MALE",
    "year": 2020
  },
  {
    "position": 1,
    "name": "Charlotte",
    "count": 413,
    "sex": "FEMALE",
    "year": 2020
  }....