mums abroad - what are the trendy new baby names in YOUR country

[ocd]

are the french still into Kevin?

[jessia]

POland:
In DD1's preschool class there are
4 x Gabriela
2 x Julia (pron. Yulia)
2 x Weronika (pron. Veronica)

Other popular girls' names are Wiktoria (Vic...), Aleksandra (shortened to Ola), Zuzanna and the evergreen Anna (Ania), Magdalena and Maria. Among chav types some anglosaxon names are qu. popular such as Jessica (my name - see the eyebrows when I introduce myself), Vanessa, Roxana .

Boys are Jakub, Mateusz (= Matthew), Krzysztof (=Christopher), Michal (=Michael).

In both boys and girls the grandparent name revival is happening too so girls: Aniela, Lena, Klara, Hanna
but esp. Stanislaw among boys.

[hugeheadofhair]

In Holland were the most popular boys' names of 2007 : 1. Sem

1. Tim 3. Daan

English names feature too: 13. Jayden
16. Finn

The most popular girls' names were: 1. Sanne

1. Lotte 3. Julia

No specifically english names in the top 20 (disregarding international names like Anna and Emma etc)

[HalyconDays]

In Nelson Mandela's book, 'Long Walk to Freedom', he talks about his guardian's wife who was called No-England.

[Nighbynight]

dd's kindergarten list has got
Elise, Luca, Johannes, Lina, Liv, Maxima, Leon, Anna, Tim, Fabian, Jakob, Manuel, Hannes, Robert, Maximilan, Kira, Julia, Tanja, Raphael, Luna

[casbie]

"Japanese is called Atom"

[SoMuchToBits]

I have relatives in several different countries.

In Australia Dawson and Patina, in New Zealand Kobi and Taz (short for Taran), in America Rae-shelle (her parents are Raymond and Shelley), and a cousin whose parents are English and Japanese is called Atom. I did wonder whether his sister would end up being called Molecule, but she turned out to be a Teresa.

[Countingthegreyhairs]

Lots of Koen's here (Belgium) pronounced Koon ....

[vesela]

OK, so Mumsnet has mangled some of the accents. Katerina, Ondrej, Matej (last two are the Czech equivalents of Andrew and Matthew).

[vesela]

Whoops, Adela is no. 4. Here is the latest list (to June 2007). Tereza still way out in front.

Tereza
Kateřina
Natálie
Adéla
Eli?ka
Lucie
Karolína
Anna
Veronika
Barbora

Boys:

Jakub
Jan
Tomá?
Ondřej
David
Adam
Matěj
Martin
Filip
Luká?

[vesela]

Tereza has been the top girl's name in the Czech Republic for years. Followed by Adela, last thing I saw.

[YeahBut]

OK, just googled the top 10 baby names in the Netherlands.
Girls...
Sophie
Lotte
Sanne
Lieke
Emma
Eva
Fleur
Noa
Anna
Julia

Boys...
Daan
Tim
Sem
Jesse
Ruben
Thijs
Stijn
Lucas
Thomas
Milan

[YeahBut]

My neighbour in Holland has just called her son Taco (which is a very old dutch name, apparently). Keep having to bite my tongue not to call him enchilada...

[ggglimhoho]

Oh, and Jade (pronounced Jad) a la Johnnie H's little girl.

[ggglimhoho]

Ha! Castille - just seen your post. Great minds and all that.....

[ggglimhoho]

Loads of little 'Oceane' and Max is very popular in France at the mo.

Killian seems to be the new Keveeeeen (both breton, doncha know).

[SannaG]

Does Scotland count as a different country? Hell I am in the highlands that's a different planet(I can say that because I am born and bred highland) My ds1s class at nursery have 4 Finlays, 3 Camerons (boys and girls) 2 Rhiannas, Angus, Bruce, Connor and Alfie quite popular too, Oh And Kayleigh and Caitlin for girls.

[CaptainCod]

this is an ancient hrread
whyt is this on the home page

[Rantmum]

I did come across several Bogdans amongst the Romanian children that I met and it occurred to me that there are always names that may never transcend linguistic and cultural barriers.

[twelveyeargap]

Bit that the top "Irish" girls names are Sarah, Emma, Katie.

[Spink]

my dad used to go on about "power is nothing without knowledge".. so somehow all would be right with the world if Knowledge's sis WAS called Power, Betty Spaghetti .
Mind you, dad also used to have a variant "Power is nothing without control". so that could be a contender.

[castille]

All the little French Kevins (pron Kev-eeeen) are teenagers now. These days it's the equally awful Kilian.

[MrsMattie]

Christ, Cali - there are some corkers on that list! Knowledge? I mean FFS, poor kid. Alexis-Starr. She's gonna be a stripperrrrrr.

[PrincessPeahead]

alexpolismum you forgot Andreas and Alexandros

[McDreamy]

Alexia
Savaas
Andreas
Chris - loads of Chris's here in Cyprus!!!!!