First Names Given by Département - Yearly Vintage - FrancePrénoms donnés par département - Millésimé - France

Name: First Names Given by Département - Yearly Vintage - France
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Prénoms donnés par département - Millésimé - FranceFirst Names Given by Département - Yearly Vintage - France

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This dataset lists first names given to newborns in France by département and birth year, compiled by INSEE from birth certificates of persons born in metropolitan France and the overseas départements (excluding Mayotte). Full completeness is not guaranteed across the entire period, particularly for years before 1946. The API allows users to explore trends in first-name popularity over time and across geographic areas, and is useful for demographic research, genealogy, and statistical analysis of naming patterns in France.Le fichier des prénoms est établi par l’Insee à partir des seuls bulletins de naissance des personnes nées en France (métropole et départements d’outre-mer hors Mayotte). En conséquence, l’exhaustivité n’est pas garantie sur toute la période, notamment pour les années antérieures à 1946. Les util...

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Data schema (9 fields)

Filterable via the API (9)

sexeprenombirth_yeardep_codebirth_countreg_codedep_namereg_namesortable_year

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Field	Type	Description
sexe	text	—
prenomPrénom	text	—
birth_yearAnnée de naissance	text	—
dep_codeCode Officiel Département	text	—
birth_countNombre de naissances	int	—
reg_codeCode Officiel Région	text	—
dep_nameNom Officiel Département	text	—
reg_nameNom Officiel Région	text	—
sortable_yearAnnée triable	date	—

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Sample data (5 records)

Record 1sexe: Masculin · prenom: LUCAS

{
  "sexe": "Masculin",
  "prenom": "LUCAS",
  "dep_code": [
    "85"
  ],
  "dep_name": [
    "Vendée"
  ],
  "reg_code": [
    "52"
  ],
  "reg_name": [
    "Pays de la Loire"
  ],
  "birth_year": "2011",
  "birth_count": 61,
  "sortable_year": "2011"
}

Record 2sexe: Masculin · prenom: LUCE

{
  "sexe": "Masculin",
  "prenom": "LUCE",
  "dep_code": [
    "971"
  ],
  "dep_name": [
    "Guadeloupe"
  ],
  "reg_code": [
    "01"
  ],
  "reg_name": [
    "Guadeloupe"
  ],
  "birth_year": "1934",
  "birth_count": 3,
  "sortable_year": "1934"
}

Record 3sexe: Masculin · prenom: LUCIAN

{
  "sexe": "Masculin",
  "prenom": "LUCIAN",
  "dep_code": [
    "13"
  ],
  "dep_name": [
    "Bouches-du-Rhône"
  ],
  "reg_code": [
    "93"
  ],
  "reg_name": [
    "Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur"
  ],
  "birth_year": "2008",
  "birth_count": 3,
  "sortable_year": "2008"
}

Record 4sexe: Masculin · prenom: LUCIEN

{
  "sexe": "Masculin",
  "prenom": "LUCIEN",
  "dep_code": [
    "36"
  ],
  "dep_name": [
    "Indre"
  ],
  "reg_code": [
    "24"
  ],
  "reg_name": [
    "Centre-Val de Loire"
  ],
  "birth_year": "1916",
  "birth_count": 26,
  "sortable_year": "1916"
}

Record 5sexe: Masculin · prenom: LOUIS

{
  "sexe": "Masculin",
  "prenom": "LOUIS",
  "dep_code": [
    "94"
  ],
  "dep_name": [
    "Val-de-Marne"
  ],
  "reg_code": [
    "11"
  ],
  "reg_name": [
    "Île-de-France"
  ],
  "birth_year": "1988",
  "birth_count": 8,
  "sortable_year": "1988"
}

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Base URL: https://public.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/demographyref-france-prenoms-departement-millesime

License

Licence Ouverte 2.0 (France / Etalab)Open

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Query examples

curl -s 'https://public.opendatasoft.com/api/explore/v2.1/catalog/datasets/demographyref-france-prenoms-departement-millesime/records?limit=20' -H 'Accept: application/json'

First 20 records of the dataset as JSON.

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per ipmeasured

observed 6 days ago

Dataset

Volume & freshness

Records

3.8M

3835767

Last upstream update

3 years ago

2023-10-16

Temporal coverage

1900 → 2022

License

No license declared upstream.

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