babynamesIL

babynamesIL contains the a dataset of names given to Israeli babies in the years 1948-2022. The data was downloaded from the Israeli Bureau of Statistics (LAMAS). Only names used for at least 5 children in at least one gender and sector (“Jewish”, “Muslim”, “Christian”, “Druze” and “Other”) are included.

The following objects are available:

• babynamesIL: For each year in from 1948 to 2022, the number of babies of each sex and sector given to each name.
• babynamesIL_totals: a dataframe with the total number of of babies with each names per sex and sector.

Installation

# Install the released version from CRAN
install.packages("babynamesIL")

# Install the development version from GitHub
devtools::install_github("aviezerl/babynamesIL")

Example

library(babynamesIL)

# yearly data
head(babynamesIL)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 6
#>   sector     year sex   name      n   prop
#>   <chr>     <dbl> <chr> <chr> <int>  <dbl>
#> 1 Christian  1948 F     לילה     19 0.129 
#> 2 Christian  1948 F     סמירה    14 0.0952
#> 3 Christian  1948 F     מארי     13 0.0884
#> 4 Christian  1948 F     נואל     11 0.0748
#> 5 Christian  1948 F     אמל       9 0.0612
#> 6 Christian  1948 F     מרים      7 0.0476

# totals per name
head(babynamesIL_totals)
#> # A tibble: 6 × 4
#>   sector    sex   name  total
#>   <chr>     <chr> <chr> <int>
#> 1 Christian F     מריה   1063
#> 2 Christian F     אמל     849
#> 3 Christian F     מרים    751
#> 4 Christian F     מארי    580
#> 5 Christian F     רים     555
#> 6 Christian F     מאיה    530

Add the missing values:

library(dplyr)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#> 
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
babynamesIL %>%
    tidyr::complete(sector, year, sex, name, fill = list(n = 0, prop = 0))
#> # A tibble: 3,204,000 × 6
#>    sector     year sex   name          n  prop
#>    <chr>     <dbl> <chr> <chr>     <int> <dbl>
#>  1 Christian  1948 F     'ג'ורג'       0     0
#>  2 Christian  1948 F     אאוס          0     0
#>  3 Christian  1948 F     אבא           0     0
#>  4 Christian  1948 F     אבגיל         0     0
#>  5 Christian  1948 F     אבטיסאם       0     0
#>  6 Christian  1948 F     אבי           0     0
#>  7 Christian  1948 F     אבי-אברהם     0     0
#>  8 Christian  1948 F     אביאור        0     0
#>  9 Christian  1948 F     אביאל         0     0
#> 10 Christian  1948 F     אביב          0     0
#> # ℹ 3,203,990 more rows

Plot trajectory of names:

library(ggplot2)
babynamesIL %>%
    tidyr::complete(sector, year, sex, name, fill = list(n = 0, prop = 0)) %>%
    filter(name == "מעיין", sector == "Jewish") %>%
    ggplot(aes(x = year, y = prop, color = sex)) +
    geom_line() +
    ggsci::scale_color_aaas() +
    scale_y_continuous(labels = scales::percent) +
    ggtitle("מעיין הבן מול מעיין הבת") +
    theme_classic()

Source of data

Data was downloaded from: here.

2022 data was downloaded from: here

Web App

A web app using the data is available here