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nycbabynames

Provides a tibble of popular baby names by sex, ethnicity, and year of birth in New York City, 2011–2021. Sourced from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene via NYC Open Data.

Installation

You can install the development version of nycbabynames like so:

remotes::install_github("kjhealy/nycbabynames")

Alternatively, install this package from my r-universe:

install.packages(
  "nycbabynames",
  repos = c("https://kjhealy.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org")
)

Including https://cloud.r-project.org ensures dependencies on CRAN are resolved automatically.

Load 

library(tidyverse)
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library(nycbabynames)

What’s included 

nyc_babynames_df
#> # A tibble: 21,612 × 6
#>    year_of_birth sex    ethnicity                  childs_first_name count  rank
#>            <dbl> <chr>  <chr>                      <chr>             <dbl> <dbl>
#>  1          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Chloe                71     1
#>  2          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Olivia               71     1
#>  3          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Emma                 66     2
#>  4          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Mia                  59     3
#>  5          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Ava                  53     4
#>  6          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Amelia               46     5
#>  7          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Evelyn               44     6
#>  8          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Sophia               43     7
#>  9          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Aria                 42     8
#> 10          2021 Female Asian and pacific islander Emily                39     9
#> # ℹ 21,602 more rows

The dataset contains 21,612 records across 11 years.

Example 

nyc_babynames_df |>
  filter(rank == 1) |>
  count(childs_first_name, sex, sort = TRUE) |>
  slice_head(n = 10) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = n, y = fct_reorder(childs_first_name, n))) +
  geom_col() +
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = c(2, 5, 8, 10)) +
  labs(
    x = "Number of years at rank 1 (across all ethnicities)",
    y = NULL,
    title = "Most frequently top-ranked baby names in NYC, 2011-2021"
  ) +
  theme_minimal()