MILAN is the 7th most popular boys name [shock]

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Does it mean something different over there?

What is wrong with Milan exactly?

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Yes, it's a very traditional name in its own right - you are quite wrong to think that people are being inspired by the city .

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well I suppose it's easier in a european sense (rathe than a dutch sense) for other people to pronounce and spell than say,

Thijmen
Faas
Aad
Jaap
Matthijs

etc

I can see people with British relatives thinking 'The MIL is going to bust my ass if I call him Gijs , so maybe I'll just call him Milan....''

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interesting that tim is number two

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So what? Just another excuse for MN snobbery?
Why do you care whther they named after the city or whether the parents have any connection with it?
I think names are much more interesting now than they used to be.
This sneering is so unbecoming

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You don't have to like anything but you don't have to sneer

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my ds2 was nearly called milan. we happen to have czech family and ds1 has a czech name too. but chose the names cos we like them, just like everyone else does

I just don't see that Milan is anything but a traditional sort of name. I have known several Milans (I think they were all Czech) in my life and it has never struck me as remotely off the radar screen.

Milan is also a popular name amoungst south asians, it's a traditional name in it's own right. This is only a problem for the narrow minded mn brigade.

Yes, Tim and Lisa in the #2 and #7 positions more surprising.

Milan sounds pretty to my ear. It sounds like a girl. I'#d probably only have to know one boy called Milan for me to lose that gut feeling though.

just checked the site and looked at the meaning...and of what I can see it seems a slavic/yugoslavic name....are there many ex-yugoslavians living in Netherlands?

Tbh, it's not actually a very poffending name or anything...also, surely every country will have different top 20...because every country will have diffrent history with names....

a german name site top 25

different areas different top whatever..

ms name is on rank 19. wohoo....

Actually I think historically it is very common in Holland to 'use other countries names' so to speak. French names were in the top list a while ago. (I know a Dutch family where all the daughters have 'French' names, the daughters children are called Caitlin and Robin!!)

Germany is similar (probably becasue names like Heinz, Guenther, Gertrude, Gunda....just aren't nice sounding names )