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BDM Data - Popular Baby Names 1952 to 2024

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 19/12/2025

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Finding the right name to give to your baby can be fun and challenging. NSW Registry of Birth, Deaths and Marriages have provided a list of popular names to help you find the one that's just right for you.

An annual list of the most popular baby names in NSW is based on the names registered in the previous calendar year. We have combined the annual lists from 1952 to 2024 and made it available.

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Field Value
Title BDM Data - Popular Baby Names 1952 to 2024
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/a677cbe2-91e1-4e45-b771-08830d3d9e41
Remote Last Updated 02/12/2025
Contact Point
NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
bdm-data@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1952 - 31/12/2023
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    147.0179,
    -32.1618
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "BDM Data - Popular Baby Names 1952 to 2024". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-popular-baby-names-from-1952