German Name - The Ten Most Common Given Names From 1600 To 2006

The Ten Most Common Given Names From 1600 To 2006

These are the names most frequently given to babies in 2006.

Girls:

  1. Marie
  2. Sophie/Sofie
  3. Maria
  4. Anna, Anne
  5. Leonie
  6. Lena
  7. Emily
  8. Johanna
  9. Laura
  10. Lea/Leah

Boys:

  1. Leon
  2. Maximilian
  3. Alexander
  4. Lukas/Lucas
  5. Paul
  6. Luca
  7. Tim
  8. Felix
  9. David
  10. 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:

  1. Frieda
  2. Anna
  3. Martha
  4. Erna
  5. Gertrud
  6. Emma
  7. Elisabeth
  8. Margarete / Margarethe
  9. Marie
  10. Else

Most popular names for boys in 1900:

  1. Walter
  2. Karl
  3. Heinrich
  4. Wilhelm
  5. Hans
  6. Ernst
  7. Otto
  8. Paul
  9. Friedrich
  10. Hermann

Most popular names for boys in 1616 in Darmstadt (Hesse):

  1. Johann, Johannes
  2. Hans
  3. Georg
  4. Henrich, Heinrich
  5. Caspar
  6. Balthasar
  7. Conrad
  8. Melchior
  9. Jost
  10. Adam

Most popular names for males between 1600 and 1900 in Württemberg:

  1. Johann, Johannes, Hans
  2. Georg, Jörg, Jerg
  3. Jakob/Jacob
  4. Michael/Michel
  5. Martin
  6. Friedrich
  7. Christoph
  8. Ludwig
  9. Konrad
  10. Andreas

Most popular names for females between 1600 and 1900 in Württemberg:

  1. Anna
  2. Maria/e
  3. Katharina/Catharina
  4. Barbara
  5. Christina/Christine
  6. Margarethe/a
  7. Elisabeth/Elisabetha
  8. Rosina
  9. Magdalena
  10. Agnes

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