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Name trends in 1538: Parish counts 뿯½ Parish counts

The year the office published counts for. Keep Name trends with “Parish counts” and 1880 from 1538. Sex as published, geography, thresholds. Offices publish them apart for a reason.

How names move in time — SSA, ONS and Statistics Korea as dated frequency files, not as a live global leaderboard. Name trends are one of the cleanest cultural time series we have, because births are registered. The U.S. Social Security Administration’s published given-name files from 1880 are the most famous graph.

The Office for National Statistics (England and Wales) and Statistics Korea publish their own counts. Each is a jurisdiction and a year — not a world cup of names. This page teaches you to read those files the way Lieberson did: as taste cycles. It will not announce a current global number-one, because no such official exists.

A U.S. compilation of given-name frequencies based on Social Security card applications, published from 1880 onward with a lag. It is a historical series, not a crystal ball. The well-known baby-name release is for England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland have separate publications. Say which office.

Say Name trends with 1538, “Parish counts,” and 1880. Luck-stars are not those three. Keep Name trends with “Parish counts” and 1880 from 1538. 18801538

Figures to keep

Year of the rule
1538
Figure on the name
1880
Topic
Name trends
Line in the record
Parish counts

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