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Matt Smith 7 April 2015
Dear Department for Education,
Could you please provide me with a lists of the most popular forename and surnames based on the latest school census data - can you provide this as two separate CSV files or separate Excel worksheets, one for forenames and another for surnames. Can this also include count as well.
SELECT TOP 1000
[forename] as Forename
,count([forename]) as Forename_Count
[person]
[forename]
count([forename]) desc
Department for Education 7 April 2015
Dear Mr Smith
Thank you for your recent enquiry. A reply will be sent to you as soon as
possible. For information; the departmental standard for correspondence
received is that responses should be sent within 20 working days as you
are requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Your
correspondence has been allocated reference number 2015-0017407.
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Matt Smith 7 May 2015
Could you please chase this as it is now over due.
ARMSTRONG, Melanie, Department for Education 11 May 2015
attachment.xlsx
Dear Mr Smith,
RE: Freedom of Information request – Top 1000 popular Surnames and Forenames
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 7 April 2015. You
Could you please provide me with a list of the most popular forename and surnames based on
the latest school census data - can you provide this as two separate CSV files or separate
Excel worksheets, one for forenames and another for surnames. Can this also include count as
well?
I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
I have attached an Excel spreadsheet which contains two worksheets as requested, separated
by Surname and the count and Forename and the count. This information was taken from the
Autumn School Census 2014.
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