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metadata
language:
  - ru
license: cc-by-sa-4.0
tags:
  - russian
  - names
pretty_name: Russian Names with Popularity Scores
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
annotations_creators:
  - machine-generated
language_creators:
  - found
source_datasets:
  - original
task_categories:
  - other
configs:
  - config_name: default
    data_files:
      - split: train
        path:
          - data/russian_names.csv
dataset_info:
  features:
    - name: name_cyrl
      dtype: string
    - name: name_latn
      dtype: string
    - name: gender
      dtype: string
    - name: popularity_rank
      dtype: int32
    - name: popularity_score
      dtype: float32
    - name: rarity_rank
      dtype: int32
    - name: rarity_score
      dtype: float32
  splits:
    - name: train
      num_examples: 12311
  download_size: 641074
  dataset_size: 641074

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[0])

Example Output:

{
  "name_cyrl": "Аарон",
  "name_latn": "Aaron",
  "gender": "m",
  "popularity_rank": 1389,
  "popularity_score": 0.8093,
  "rarity_rank": 5892,
  "rarity_score": 0.1907
}

Data Structure

Each record in the dataset contains the following fields:

  • name_cyrl (string): The name in Cyrillic script.
  • name_latn (string): The name in Latin 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.
  • popularity_score (float): A normalized popularity rank from 0.0 to 1.0. A higher value indicates higher popularity.
  • rarity_rank (integer): The rarity rank of the name. A lower value indicates higher rarity.
  • rarity_score (float): A normalized rarity rank from 0.0 to 1.0. A higher value indicates higher rarity.

License

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