Most Popular Baby Names

This dataset contains ranks and counts for the top 25 baby names by sex for live births that occurred in California (by occurrence) based on information entered on birth certificates.

Data and Resources

Field Value
accessLevel public
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catalog_describedBy https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
identifier c8689a2c-a5a6-441e-9750-21384ff8cf63
issued 2017-06-16T22:09:43.832482
modified 2022-02-09T21:19:35.752494
publisher California Department of Public Health
resource-type Dataset
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source_hash 505e06c214891b53a324a8018ee47f7be319dac3
source_schema_version 1.1
theme {"Health and Human Services"}
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • baby-names
  • boy-names
  • california-department-of-public-health
  • cdph
  • chsi
  • ckan
  • female
  • geo
  • geoss
  • girl-names
  • male
  • name
  • national
  • north-america
  • popular
  • sex
  • united-states
  • vital-statistics
isopen False
license_id notspecified
license_title License not specified
maintainer California Department of Public Health, Center for Health Statistics and Informatics, Vital Statistics Branch
maintainer_email opendata@cdph.ca.gov
metadata_created 2025-11-20T13:08:05.797752
metadata_modified 2025-11-20T13:08:05.797756
notes This dataset contains ranks and counts for the top 25 baby names by sex for live births that occurred in California (by occurrence) based on information entered on birth certificates.
num_resources 3
num_tags 20
title Most Popular Baby Names