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GET /v1/meta

Year range & totals

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api.oanor.com/babynames-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/babynames-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/babynames-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/babynames-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

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

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Top 1000 names per year per sex, 1880-2008. percent = fraction of births that year; per_million = percent×1,000,000.",
        "years": 129,
        "fields": [
            "name",
            "sex",
            "year",
            "percent",
            "per_million",
            "rank"
        ],
        "source": "US given-name popularity (SSA-derived, hadley/data-baby-names)",
        "last_year": 2008,
        "first_year": 1880,
        "unique_names": 6782,
        "per_year_per_sex": 1000
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-31T05:48:03.208Z",
        "request_id": "6f6d6353-24d6-43ec-8997-362a5720e4da"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}