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[Facts] Re: Why no Australian or South African/ Other African Countries
I don't know why Australia does charts for provinces and not for the whole country.South Africa has eleven official languages, and there is no one predominant language in the country, so it would be very hard to list the most popular names. Most African countries are made up of several ethnic groups, which means that there are different sets of names within one country. Different religions also has an effect, since many African countries contain Christians, Muslims, and animists all living under one nation, so naturally Africans of different religions would use different names.
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Well, Australia doesn't have provinces, for a start ;) We have states.Australia is a federation of states, and births, deaths and marriages are all controlled by the individual states not by the federal government, so data on popular names is collected and presented by individual states. There's no central body responsible for collecting that data and processing it for the whole country, so it doesn't happen unless someone pays for a report or something. It's also complicated by the fact that different states publish different types of data sets for different numbers of names, so it'd be a bit of a hodge-podge of statistics.
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