You asked
I would like to know how many people with the christian name GANDALF were registered between 2005 and 2014? (2005-2013 will be fine if 2014 is unavailable).
We said
Thank you for your recent query regarding baby name data.
Some information on baby names is available from the ONS website.
Further information on baby names can be obtained from the customer services team of the Vital Statistics Outputs Branch. Special extracts and tabulations of baby name data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to:
Vital Statistics Outputs Branch
Office for National Statistics
Segensworth Road
Titchfield
Fareham
Hampshire
PO15 5RR
Tel: +44 (0)1329 444 110
E-mail: vsob@ons.gov.uk
As this information is already available to you via this route ONS considers that S21(1) applies to this request and the information does not have to be supplied under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act. S21(1) is an absolute exemption and no consideration of the public interest test needs to be applied.