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GET /v1/name

A name's popularity profile + yearly trend

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/babynames-api/v1/name" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/babynames-api/v1/name", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/babynames-api/v1/name");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/babynames-api/v1/name",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "name": "Emma",
        "results": [
            {
                "sex": "boy",
                "name": "Emma",
                "peak": {
                    "rank": 466,
                    "year": 1890,
                    "percent": 0.000134
                },
                "latest": {
                    "rank": 738,
                    "year": 1910,
                    "percent": 8.2e-5
                },
                "series": [
                    {
                        "rank": 613,
                        "year": 1880,
                        "percent": 8.4e-5,
                        "per_million": 84
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 618,
                        "year": 1881,
                        "percent": 8.3e-5,
                        "per_million": 83
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 778,
                        "year": 1882,
                        "percent": 5.7e-5,
                        "per_million": 57
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 750,
                        "year": 1883,
                        "percent": 6.2e-5,
                        "per_million": 62
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 675,
                        "year": 1884,
                        "percent": 7.3e-5,
                        "per_million": 73
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 509,
                        "year": 1885,
                        "percent": 0.000121,
                        "per_million": 121
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 582,
                        "year": 1886,
                        "percent": 9.2e-5,
                        "per_million": 92
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 467,
                        "year": 1887,
                        "percent": 0.000128,
                        "per_million": 128
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 473,
                        "year": 1888,
                        "percent": 0.000131,
                        "per_million": 131
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 640,
                        "year": 1889,
                        "percent": 8.4e-5,
                        "per_million": 84
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 466,
                        "year": 1890,
                        "percent": 0.000134,
                        "per_million": 134
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 503,
                        "year": 1891,
                        "percent": 0.000119,
                        "per_million": 119
                    },
                    {
                        "rank": 61
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