Data, sources & press kit
How Many Of Me is a free aggregation of public name-statistics datasets. This page lists every primary source we use, explains how to cite us, and offers a press contact for journalists and researchers.
Primary sources
Every number on this site is traceable to one of these public datasets. Click any source to download or browse the original.
- Office for National Statistics - Baby NamesLicense: Open Government Licence v3.0 - Coverage: 1996/ - Region: England and Wales
- U.S. Social Security Administration - National Names DataLicense: U.S. Public Domain - Coverage: 1880/ - Region: United States
- U.S. Social Security Administration - State Names DataLicense: U.S. Public Domain - Coverage: 1910/ - Region: United States (50 states + DC)
- U.S. Census Bureau - 2010 Frequently Occurring SurnamesLicense: U.S. Public Domain - Coverage: 2010 - Region: United States
- Wikidata - Famous BearersLicense: CC0 1.0 - Coverage: ongoing - Region: Worldwide
How to cite us
If you reference How Many Of Me in an article, dataset, paper, or social-media post, please link directly to the specific page (for example, https://your-domain/name/james) rather than the home page. That helps researchers reach the underlying data without an extra click.
Suggested attribution: "Estimated bearer counts via How Many Of Me, based on official SSA / ONS / StatCan / BDM / DIA birth-record data."
Methodology
See our methodology page for the full estimation pipeline: how cumulative births are adjusted by age-specific survival rates, how we combine multi-country sources, and how worldwide estimates are computed for countries without a primary source.
Press & research contact
For journalists working on a name-related story, researchers integrating our data, or anyone needing a custom slice that isn't already on the site, reach out via the contact email listed in our about page. We typically respond within 48 hours.