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Hello I would like to share with you my new-and-improved website that compiles 46 years' worth of baby-names data in Alberta: albertababynames.com It now includes the latest data (for 2025) and a similar-names function to easily browse through various spellings in naming trends.

albertababynames.comAlberta Baby Names ExplorerExplore 46 years of Alberta baby name data (1980–2025). Search any name, browse trends, and see what was popular each year.

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Other provinces don't publish data with the same regularity or granularity. Many less popular names are suppressed for "privacy reasons." StatsCan has an interactive tool but it's only current to 2024 & if there were fewer than 5 names in a year, the data just shows zero for that year. eg, Robson:

Some of the astute members of the strategists discord noticed a bug. Sometimes the GOA dataset has multiple entries for the same year and it only grabs the count from one row.

It's correct but not easy to read. David ranked as the 3rd most popular name in 1980. From there it declined in rank, but it's hard to see because that lone girl David in 1982 is forcing the Y axis way down. You can tap on the "Girl" line label to hide girls from the chart. Then it looks like this: