rustemgareev/russian-names

Russian Names with Popularity Scores

Description

This dataset contains over 12,000 multinational given names in Russia, including their popularity ranks and scores. The data is based on statistics published by the Unified State Register of Civil Status Records (EGR ZAGS) as of July 2025.

Usage

The dataset can be loaded using the Hugging Face datasets library.

from datasets import load_dataset

dataset = load_dataset("rustemgareev/russian-names", split='train')

# Print the first example
print(dataset)

Example Output:

{
  "id": "aaron",
  "name": "Аарон",
  "gender": "m",
  "popularity_rank": 1389,
  "rarity_rank": 5892,
  "popularity_score": 0.8093,
  "rarity_score": 0.1907
}

Data Structure

Each record in the dataset contains the following fields:

• id (string): A unique identifier in Latin transliteration.
• name (string): The name in Cyrillic script.
• gender (string): The gender associated with the name: m (male), f (female).
• popularity_rank (integer): The popularity rank of the name. A lower value indicates higher popularity.
• rarity_rank (integer): The rarity rank of the name.
• popularity_score (float): A normalized popularity score from 0.0 to 1.0.
• rarity_score (float): A normalized rarity score.

License

The dataset is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.