Most popular baby names from countries other than UK

[PsammeadPaintedTheLion]

In case anyone finds it interesting, here is the list of popular baby names in Germany in 2016. I'll do Austria and Switzerland too - feel free to add lists from other countries if you have access to them!

Girls

Mia
Emma
Sofia / Sophia
Hannah / Hanna
Emilia
Anna
Marie
Mila
Lina
Lea / Leah
Lena
Leonie
Amelie
Luisa / Louisa
Johanna
Emily / Emilie
Clara / Klara
Sophie / Sofie
Charlotte
Lilly / Lilli
Lara
Laura
Leni
Nele / Neele
Ella
Maja / Maya
Mathilda / Matilda
Ida
Frieda / Frida
Lia / Liah / Lya
Greta
Sarah / Sara
Lotta
Pia
Julia
Melina
Paula
Alina
Marlene
Elisa
Lisa
Mira
Victoria / Viktoria
Anni / Annie / Anny
Nora
Mara / Marah
Isabell / Isabel / Isabelle
Helena
Isabella
Maria

Boys

Ben
Paul
Jonas
Elias
Leon
Finn / Fynn
Noah
Luis / Louis
Lukas / Lucas
Felix
Luca / Luka
Maximilian
Henry / Henri
Max
Oskar / Oscar
Emil
Liam
Jakob / Jacob
Moritz
Anton
Julian
Theo
Niklas / Niclas
David
Philipp
Alexander
Tim
Matteo
Milan
Leo
Tom
Mats / Mads
Carl / Karl
Erik / Eric
Linus
Jonathan
Jan
Fabian
Leonard
Samuel
Rafael / Raphael
Jona / Jonah
Jannik / Yannik / Yannick / Yannic
Simon
Vincent
Mika
Hannes
Lennard / Lennart
Till
Aaron

Austria

Girls

Anna
Sophie
Maria
Emilia
Elena
Emma
Lena
Sarah
Mia
Laura
Julia
Johanna
Lea
Valentina
Leonie
Luisa
Katharina
Chiara
Amelie
Magdalena
Lara
Isabella
Theresa
Viktoria
Lisa
Lina
Marlene
Annika
Elisa
Nina
Nora
Alina
Ella
Caroline
Maja
Franziska
Paula
Lilly
Valerie
Alice
Zoe
Eva
Paulina
Jasmin
Selina
Olivia
Elif
Amina
Vanessa
Melissa
Pia
Matilda
Anja
Anna-Lena
Elisabeth
Christina
Antonia
Linda
Rosa
Ida

Boys

Lukas
David
Jakob
Elias
Maximilian
Alexander
Jonas
Paul
Tobias
Leon
Felix
Simon
Raphael
Niklas
Philipp
Julian
Sebastian
Fabian
Matthias
Moritz
Matteo
Florian
Johannes
Noah
Lorenz
Luis
Michael
Daniel
Samuel
Benjamin
Nico
Markus
Valentin
Muhammed
Dominik
Leo
Josef
Emil
Leonhard
Andreas
Gabriel
Konstantin
Anton
Stefan
Jan
Manuel
Adrian
Ben
Marcel
Jonathan
Vincent
Theodor
Finn
Thomas
Oliver
Kilian
Max
Oskar
Christian
Christoph & Erik

For some reason, I couldn't copy/paste the Swiss ones, so I screen-grabbed them instead. The lists are for German Switzerland, French Switzerland and Italian Switzerland respectively.

That's interesting OP.

I tend to comment on the baby names threads and the "what can I call my baby which works well in Europe" ones and all they need to do really is look at the lists of 3 or 4 countries., no need to comment at all.

A good, although I'd prefer Benjamin to just Ben

I really like Scandi names at the moment.

A great girls name I always see on the list in Sweden and Norway is Tuva, which means beautiful.

lists from other countries are easy to access. We live in Brazil. My children have friends called

Bernardo Heitor, Otavio, Matheus, Vinicius, Arthur, Thiago and Olavo which in the UK would be Bernard, Hector, Octavio or Octavius, Matthew, Vincent, Arthur, James and Olav. I don't think those are widely used in the UK.

The most common name at the moment seems to be Lucas though.

The girls are variations of Maria which is still the most popular name. Maria Clara, Maria Antonia, Maria Julia, Maria Cecilia and Maria Luiza.

Anyone know an official list of Japan's? I'm just interested...

I prefer the German list to theEnhlish one.

Our dd's name appears near the top of these lists and also near the top of lots of other countries (France and Poland). It's not very popular in the uk though. That's one of the reasons we like it so much. It travels well, but is not overused in the uk.

Interesting to see that Paul is very high on both those lists, and that's been out of fashion for years in the UK.

Not sure how well this will show up but this is the Swedish one.

My OH is Swedish so we've been trying to find a name that fits both cultures. Including spelling and pronunciation, the Swedish pronunciation of Charlotte sounds more like harlot, which is not what I'm aiming for!!

The biggest difference I notice is Elvira, really high on their list and really low on the UK one!

That didn't work at all.. I'll type it

Elvira! wow. That's an interesting name to be popular in Sweden. It's very clunky sounding. Came across it in a play I did for the leaving cert, El Tragaluz. There was an Elvira. I remember saying to my Spanish friend that I liked it and he laughed like a drain.

Girls
Alice
Lilly
Maja
Elsa
Ella
Alicia
Olivia
Julia
Ebba
Wilma
Saga
Agnes
Freja
Alma
Astrid
Ellie
Molly
Alva
Ellen
Stella
Clara
Linnea
Emma
Signe
Isabelle
Vera
Leah
Emilia
Ester
Sara
Nova
Ines
Nellie
Selma
Sigrid
Elise
Sofia
Juni
Elvira
Elin
Isabella
Lovisa
Iris
Liv
Tyra
Celine
Edith
Felicia
Meja
Moa

Boys
Oscar
Lucas
William
Liam
Oliver
Hugo
Alexander
Elias
Charloe
Noah
Adam
Ludvig
Filip
Adrian
Axel
Nils
Alfred
Leo
Vincent
Elliot
Leon
Arvid
Harry
Valter
Isak
Theodor
Viktor
Melvin
Edvin
Benjamin
Theo
Gustav
Emil
Olle
Mohamed
Viggo
Erik
Albin
Sixten
Loui
Love
Gabriel
Ebbe
Melker
August
Vidar
Malte
Josef
Frank
Max

My daughter's name features on both lists but doesn't break the top 100 in the UK. I was aware the name travelled well when choosing it though.

Coupled with her surname people could easily assume she is German rather than British, when she's older.

Mine too- I wonder if they have the same name? She's very happy that all over Europe it's fairly easy to buy things with her name on (except here- where it's not in the top 100!).

I love that the German list groups together different spelling of the same name. Half our top 20 seem to be versions of the same name.
Very similar trends.

Norwegian top 10 2016

Girls’ names

1 Nora/Norah/Noora
2 Emma
3 Sara/Sarah/Zara
4 Sofie/Sophie
5 Sofia/Sophia
6 Maja/Maia/Maya
7 Olivia
8 Ella
9 Ingrid/Ingerid/Ingri
10 Emilie

Boys’ names
1 William
2 Oskar/Oscar
3 Lucas/Lucas
4 Mathias/Matias
5 Filip
6 Oliver
7 Jakob/Jacob
8 Emil
9 Noah/Noa
10 Aksel/Axel

Interesting to see Sarah and Filip (Philip) are popular, but so in the UK