Names Given to Babies in Quebec Between 1980 and 2020.

prenoms

The goal of prenoms is to give the names of babies born in Quebec between 1980 and 2020.

Installation

You can install prenoms from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("desautm/prenoms")

Example 1

Here is the graph of the first names of the four members of my family, between 1980 and 2020.

library(tidyverse)
#> -- Attaching packages --------------------------------------- tidyverse 1.3.1 --
#> v ggplot2 3.3.3     v purrr   0.3.4
#> v tibble  3.1.1     v dplyr   1.0.5
#> v tidyr   1.1.3     v stringr 1.4.0
#> v readr   1.4.0     v forcats 0.5.1
#> -- Conflicts ------------------------------------------ tidyverse_conflicts() --
#> x dplyr::filter() masks stats::filter()
#> x dplyr::lag()    masks stats::lag()
library(prenoms)

family <- prenoms %>%
  filter(
    name == "Marc-Andre" & sex == "M" |
    name == "Laurent" & sex == "M" |
    name == "Melanie" & sex == "F" |
    name == "Anna" & sex == "F"
  ) %>%
  group_by(name, year, sex) %>%
  summarise(n = sum(n)) %>%
  arrange(year)
#> `summarise()` has grouped output by 'name', 'year'. You can override using the `.groups` argument.

ggplot(data = family, aes(x = year, y = n, color = name))+
  geom_line()+
  scale_x_continuous( breaks = seq(1980, 2020, by = 5))

Example 2

The five most popular female names in 2020.

prenoms %>%
  filter(year == 2020 & sex == "F") %>%
  select(year, sex, name, n) %>%
  arrange(desc(n)) %>%
  head(5)
#> # A tibble: 5 x 4
#>    year sex   name          n
#>   <int> <chr> <chr>     <int>
#> 1  2020 F     Olivia      543
#> 2  2020 F     Alice       491
#> 3  2020 F     Emma        491
#> 4  2020 F     Charlie     488
#> 5  2020 F     Charlotte   449

Example 3

The five most popular male names in 2020.

prenoms %>%
  filter(year == 2020 & sex == "M") %>%
  select(year, sex, name, n) %>%
  arrange(desc(n)) %>%
  head(5)
#> # A tibble: 5 x 4
#>    year sex   name        n
#>   <int> <chr> <chr>   <int>
#> 1  2020 M     Liam      661
#> 2  2020 M     William   644
#> 3  2020 M     Noah      639
#> 4  2020 M     Thomas    594
#> 5  2020 M     Leo       572