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i'm looking for a word that would exclusively denote the person's name and birth data
it should be analogous with words such as contacts denoting entities such as email, phone number, address perhaps, that can be often seen in cv's, or credentials which is another collective word for username and password
There is no single word whose meaning encompasses name and birthdate.
In government circles, Name, Date of Birth, Sex, and sometimes other attributes, are often referred to collectively as 'Identity Set'.
"i'm looking for a word that would exclusively denote the person's name and birth data." This question was asked November 30 2014.
The word he is looking for is the word "demographics." Does that answer the question sufficiently?
You could colloquially use "Stats", an abbreviation of statistics. Of course this can be used to represent much more information than specifically name and DOB, but they do fall within the umbrella that this can cover.
Statistic - a number that represents a piece of information
