The Ten Most Common Given Names From 1600 To 2006
These are the names most frequently given to babies in 2006.
Girls:
- Marie
- Sophie/Sofie
- Maria
- Anna, Anne
- Leonie
- Lena
- Emily
- Johanna
- Laura
- Lea/Leah
Boys:
- Leon
- Maximilian
- Alexander
- Lukas/Lucas
- Paul
- Luca
- Tim
- Felix
- David
- Elias
Most popular names between 1957 and 2006 for girls:
Andrea, Angelika, Anja, Anke, Anna, Anne, Annett, Antje, Barbara, Birgit, Brigitte, Christin, Christina, Christine, Claudia, Daniela, Diana, Doreen, Franziska, Gabriele, Heike, Ines, Jana, Janina, Jennifer, Jessica, Jessika, Julia, Juliane, Karin, Karolin, Katharina, Kathrin, Katrin, Katja, Kerstin, Klaudia, Kristin, Laura, Lea, Lena, Lisa, Mandy, Manuela, Maria, Marie, Marina, Martina, Melanie, Monika, Nadine, Nicole, Petra, Sabine, Sabrina, Sandra, Sara, Sarah, Silke, Simone, Sophia, Sophie, Stefanie, Stephanie, Susanne, Tanja, Ulrike, Ursula, Uta, Ute, Vanessa, Yvonne.
Most popular names between 1957 and 2006 for boys:
Alexander, Andreas, Benjamin, Bernd, Christian, Daniel, David, Dennis, Dieter, Dirk, Dominik, Eric, Erik, Felix, Florian, Frank, Franz, Jan, Jens, Jonas, Jörg, Jürgen, Karl-Heinz, Kevin, Klaus, Kristian, Leon, Lukas, Marcel, Marco, Marko, Mario, Markus, Martin, Mathias, Matthias, Max, Maximilian, Michael, Mike, Maik, Niklas, Patrick, Paul, Peter, Philipp, Phillipp, Ralf, Ralph, René, Robert, Sebastian, Stefan, Stephan, Steffen, Sven, Swen, Thomas, Thorsten, Torsten, Tim, Tobias, Tom, Ulrich, Uwe, Wilhelm, Wolfgang
Most popular names for girls in 1900:
- Frieda
- Anna
- Martha
- Erna
- Gertrud
- Emma
- Elisabeth
- Margarete / Margarethe
- Marie
- Else
Most popular names for boys in 1900:
- Walter
- Karl
- Heinrich
- Wilhelm
- Hans
- Ernst
- Otto
- Paul
- Friedrich
- Hermann
Most popular names for boys in 1616 in Darmstadt (Hesse):
- Johann, Johannes
- Hans
- Georg
- Henrich, Heinrich
- Caspar
- Balthasar
- Conrad
- Melchior
- Jost
- Adam
Most popular names for males between 1600 and 1900 in Württemberg:
- Johann, Johannes, Hans
- Georg, Jörg, Jerg
- Jakob/Jacob
- Michael/Michel
- Martin
- Friedrich
- Christoph
- Ludwig
- Konrad
- Andreas
Most popular names for females between 1600 and 1900 in Württemberg:
- Anna
- Maria/e
- Katharina/Catharina
- Barbara
- Christina/Christine
- Margarethe/a
- Elisabeth/Elisabetha
- Rosina
- Magdalena
- Agnes
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