--- title: Top three names registered for boys by council area, New South Wales resource: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/ publisher: NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages licence: CC BY 4.0 licence_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ version: 2026-06-02 rows: 632 fields: 3 source: https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/bd49c3e4-7f92-4a28-a3c2-c4a2c3a9123e/resource/cad8d300-8174-4618-808a-e22e4ef951ee/download/top-3-names-by-lga-2025_male.csv source_sha256: ba27034ccd3e6424de91be281d7f127e28333d3163fbd2ada26494cefb9cd1b6 language: en-AU operator: National Digital not_endorsed: true --- # Top three names registered for boys by council area, New South Wales The three names registered most often for boys in each NSW council area, with their rank, for the newest year the Registry has published. Updated yearly. Published by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages under CC BY 4.0 and republished here in other formats, with cells typed and suppressed values made null. NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages has not endorsed this site. Also called: Top 3 boys names by LGA NSW, Popular boys names in my council area NSW, NSW BDM top registered boys names by local government area. ## Download Latest version, redirects to `https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/v/2026-06-02/`: - csv: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.csv (16 KB) - xlsx: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.xlsx (19 KB) - json: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.json (32 KB) - parquet: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.parquet (8.3 KB) - sqlite: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.sqlite (66 KB) - duckdb: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.duckdb (100 KB) - ndjson: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.ndjson (31 KB) - arrow: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.arrow (10 KB) - csv.gz: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.csv.gz (3.3 KB) Pinned version 2026-06-02: `https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/v/2026-06-02/data.`. Dated versions never change. ## Query The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/rows. Counts and sums: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/aggregate. - Rows: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/rows?rank=eq.1&limit=5 - Aggregate: https://publicdata.au/api/v1/datasets/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/aggregate?group=name&metric=count&rank=eq.1 Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`. - `select`: Fields to return, comma-separated. Every field when absent. - `order`: `field.asc` or `field.desc`, comma-separated. The publisher's row order when absent. - `limit`: Rows per page, 1 to 10,000. 100 when absent. - `offset`: Rows to skip. The `next` URL in each answer sets it for you. - `group`: On `aggregate`, fields to group by, comma-separated. - `metric`: On `aggregate`, `count`, `sum.field`, `avg.field`, `min.field` or `max.field`, comma-separated. `count` when absent. - `format`: `json`, `ndjson` or `csv`. JSON carries the provenance header, and the others carry it in response headers. Without a version the API answers from the newest loaded version, and that answer changes when the publisher releases again. Put `versions//` before `rows` or `aggregate` for an answer that never changes. `/api/v1/datasets//versions` lists the loaded versions. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. OpenAPI for this dataset: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/openapi.json ## Explore Charts and dashboards in the browser: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/explore/. A dashboard can be shared as a link or embedded. ## Fields | field | type | publisher's header | note | |---|---|---|---| | `lga` | string | LGA | | | `name` | string | Male | | | `rank` | integer | Rank | | Key: `lga, name`. ## Versions - 2026-06-02: 632 rows, 3 fields, sha256 ba27034ccd3e. https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/v/2026-06-02/ Machine-readable: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/versions.json, https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/changes.json, https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/datapackage.json, https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/schema.json, https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/history.tar.zst ## Part of Baby names registered in New South Wales - [Popular baby names by year and sex, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-popular-baby-names/) - [Top three names registered for girls by council area, New South Wales](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-female/) ## Same subject, other publishers - [Top 100 baby names, Queensland, latest year](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-top-baby-names/) (Qld) - [Top 100 baby names for boys, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-baby-names-boys/) (SA) - [Registrable life events by financial year, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-registered-events-by-financial-year/) (Vic) - [Birth, death and marriage registrations by month, ACT](https://publicdata.au/d/act-bdm-registrations/) (ACT) - [Top 100 baby names by year, Queensland, 1960 to 2005](https://publicdata.au/d/qld-top-baby-names-1960-2005/) (Qld) - [Top 100 baby names for girls, South Australia](https://publicdata.au/d/sa-baby-names-girls/) (SA) - [Deaths registered per month, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-deaths-registered-by-month/) (Vic) - [Marriages registered per month, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-marriages-registered-by-month/) (Vic) - [Births, deaths and marriages registered by calendar year, Victoria](https://publicdata.au/d/vic-registered-events-by-calendar-year/) (Vic) - [Historic death index, ACT](https://publicdata.au/d/act-historic-death-index/) (ACT) - [Historic marriage index, ACT](https://publicdata.au/d/act-historic-marriage-index/) (ACT) - [Registered births by age of mother and nuptiality, Australia, 1975 onwards](https://publicdata.au/d/au-births-by-age-of-mother/) (Cth) ## Attribution and citation NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages, NSW Government, BDM Data - Top 3 REGISTERED Baby Names by LGA, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/bdm-data-top-3-baby-names-by-lga, licensed under CC BY 4.0. The licence requires the publisher's attribution. We ask that you also name publicdata.au and link to the version you used. Plain text: NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages, NSW Government, BDM Data - Top 3 REGISTERED Baby Names by LGA, sourced 3 October 2026, https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/bdm-data-top-3-baby-names-by-lga, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au, https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/v/2026-06-02/ Harvard: NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages (2026) Top three names registered for boys by council area, New South Wales, version 2026-06-02 [data set], CC BY 4.0, sourced 3 October 2026. Serialised and versioned by National Digital at publicdata.au. Available at: https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/v/2026-06-02/ Markdown: Data: [Baby names registered in New South Wales](https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/bdm-data-top-3-baby-names-by-lga), NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages, [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), sourced 3 October 2026. Files: [publicdata.au](https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/v/2026-06-02/) by [National Digital](https://nationaldigital.com.au/). ## Questions ### How do I download Top three names registered for boys by council area as a CSV file? Open https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/latest/data.csv. It redirects to the newest dated version, which is https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/v/2026-06-02/data.csv today. The same path serves Excel, JSON, Parquet, SQLite, DuckDB, NDJSON, Arrow. A dated URL never changes, so use it when the file must stay the same. ### Can I open Top three names registered for boys by council area in Excel? Yes. https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/v/2026-06-02/data.xlsx is a workbook with the 632 rows on a records sheet, the field list on a second sheet and the provenance on a third. The CSV also opens in Excel. https://publicdata.au/d/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male/v/2026-06-02/data.csv.gz is the CSV at about a tenth of the size. ### How often is Top three names registered for boys by council area updated? NSW BDM releases it yearly. This site checks the portal every week and adds a dated version when the file changes. ### Can I use Top three names registered for boys by council area commercially? Yes. CC BY 4.0 allows commercial use, redistribution and derived works as long as the attribution is kept. The attribution string is in this page's side column and inside every file. ### Is this the official source for Top three names registered for boys by council area? No. The publisher is NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages, and its page is https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/bdm-data-top-3-baby-names-by-lga. This site republishes the publisher's file without changing its content. The original sits beside every version as source.csv with its SHA-256, so the two can be compared. ### What is in each row? One of the three names registered most often for boys in one NSW council area, with its rank there. Names with the same count share a rank, so a council area can have more than three rows. ### Which year does a version cover? The Registry publishes one file for each year of registrations and sex. This entry follows the newest year's file for boys, so each version holds one year. The year is not a column in the file, and the version date and the source file name beside each version say which year it is. ### Are the counts published? No. The Registry's file gives the rank of each name in the council area and not the number of babies. ## What this site did to the data Cells were typed, headers were renamed to snake_case and the encoding was made UTF-8. Rows were left alone. Nothing is derived. The publisher's file is beside every version as `source.csv`. ## Improve this dataset This page is built from [register/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male.yaml](https://github.com/National-Digital/publicdata.au/blob/main/register/nsw-top-baby-names-by-lga-male.yaml) on GitHub, and a fix to it is welcome as a pull request. https://publicdata.au/contribute/ explains how.