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Most popular personal names in different cultures :

Contents
1 Austria
2 Denmark
3 England and Wales
4 Finland
5 France
6 Germany
7 Iceland
8 Ireland

8.1 Northern Ireland

9 Japan
10 Norway
11 Poland
12 Scotland
13 United States
14 See also
15 External link

Austria

Most popular baby names in 2003
Source: http://www.statistik.at/fachbereich_03/bevoelkerung_vornamen.shtml

Rank Boys Percent Total number

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Lukas
Florian
Tobias
David
Alexander
Fabian
Michael
Julian
Daniel
Simon

4.3
2.8
2.5
2.3
2.1
2.1
2.1
2.0
2.0
2.0

1.488
968
875
817
741
737
735
708
707
701

Rank Girls Percent Total number

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Sarah
Anna
Julia
Laura
Lena
Hannah
Lisa
Katharina
Leonie
Vanessa

2.9
2.8
2.5
2.3
2.3
2.1
2.1
2.0
2.0
1.7

965
923
809
745
745
677
674
666
661
551

Denmark

Note: the data covers the first half of 2003
Source: © Danmarks Statistik http://www.dst.dk/

girls: boys:
  1. Emma
  2. Julie
  3. Mathilde
  4. Sofia
  5. Laura
  6. Caroline
  7. Cecilie
  8. Ida
  9. Sarah
  10. Freja
  1. Mikkel
  2. Frederik
  3. Mathias
  4. Mads
  5. Rasmus
  6. Emil
  7. Oliver
  8. Christian
  9. Magnus
  10. Lucas

England and Wales

Most popular baby names in 2003
Source: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=184

    Boys   Girls
1.JackEmily
2.JoshuaEllie
3.ThomasChloe
4.JamesJessica
5.DanielSophie
6.OliverMegan
7.BenjaminLucy
8.SamuelOlivia
9.WilliamCharlotte
10.JosephHannah

Finland

Most popular baby names in 2003 among the Finnish-speaking population
Source: http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi

All given names:

girls: boys:
  1. Maria
  2. Emilia
  3. Sofia
  4. Katariina
  5. Johanna
  6. Julia
  7. Olivia
  8. Eveliina
  9. Elina
  10. Anna
  1. Mikael
  2. Juhani
  3. Johannes
  4. Matias
  5. Oskari
  6. Valtteri
  7. Kristian
  8. Olavi
  9. Aleksi
  10. Elias

First names:

girls: boys:
  1. Ella
  2. Emma
  3. Anni
  4. Siiri
  5. Sara
  6. Venla
  7. Iida
  8. Viivi
  9. Nea
  10. Veera
  1. Niko
  2. Eetu
  3. Juho
  4. Veeti
  5. Lauri
  6. Leevi
  7. Joona
  8. Aleksi
  9. Arttu
  10. Ville


France

Most popular baby names in 2001
Source: http://www.prenoms.com/

girls: boys:
  1. Léa
  2. Manon
  3. Chloé
  4. Camille
  5. Emma
  6. Océane
  7. Sarah
  8. Marie
  9. Laura
  10. Julie
  1. Thomas
  2. Lucas
  3. Théo
  4. Hugo
  5. Maxime
  6. Antoine
  7. Quentin
  8. Clément
  9. Alexandre
  10. Nicolas

Germany

Most popular baby names in 2002
Source: http://www.gfds.de/namen.html

boys: girls:
  1. Alexander
  2. Maximilian
  3. Paul
  4. Leon
  5. Lukas
  6. Jonas
  7. Tim
  8. David
  9. Niklas
  10. Luca
  1. Marie
  2. Sophie
  3. Maria
  4. Anna, Anne
  5. Laura
  6. Lea
  7. Katharina
  8. Sarah
  9. Julia
  10. Lena

Iceland

Most popular baby names in 2001
Source: http://www.hagstofa.is/

girls: % boys:%
  1. Guðrún
  2. Sigríður
  3. Kristín
  4. Margrét
  5. Ingibjörg
  6. Sigrún
  7. Helga
  8. Jóhanna
  9. Anna
  10. Ragnheiður
1.62

1.39
1.23
1.17
1.02
0.99
0.92
0.63
0.60
0.54

  1. Sigurður
  2. Guðmundur
  3. Jón
  4. Gunnar
  5. Ólafur
  6. Magnús
  7. Einar
  8. Kristján
  9. Björn
  10. Bjarni

1,27
1,22
0,94
0,89
0,79
0,77
0,66
0,65
0,58
0,54

Ireland

Most popular baby names in 2003
Source: http://www.cso.ie/publications/demog/babynames.pdf

boys: girls:
  1. Sean
  2. Jack
  3. Adam
  4. Conor
  5. James
  6. Daniel
  7. Michael
  8. Cian
  9. David
  10. Dylan
  1. Emma
  2. Sarah
  3. Aoife
  4. Ciara
  5. Katie
  6. Sophie
  7. Rachel
  8. Chloe
  9. Amy
  10. Leah

Northern Ireland

Most popular baby names in 2003
Source: http://www.nisra.gov.uk/uploads/publications/FirstNamesBulletin2003.doc

boys: girls:
  1. Jack
  2. Matthew
  3. Adam
  4. James
  5. Ryan
  6. Joshua
  7. Conor
  8. Ben
  9. Daniel
  10. Dylan
  1. Emma
  2. Katie
  3. Chloe
  4. Caitlin
  5. Amy
  6. Ellie
  7. Rachel
  8. Sarah
  9. Megan
  10. Hannah

Japan

Most popular baby names in 2002

boys: girls:
  1. Shun
  2. Takumi
  3. Shou
  4. Ren
  5. Shouta
  6. Souta
  7. Kaito
  8. Kenta
  9. Daiki
  10. Yuu
  1. Misaki
  2. Aoi
  3. Nanami
  4. Miu
  5. Riko
  6. Miyu
  7. Moe
  8. Mitsuki
  9. Yuuka
  10. Rin
  11. Ai

See also: Japanese name

Norway

Most popular baby names in 2003
Source: Statistisk Sentralbyrå girls boys

girls: boys:
  1. Emma
  2. Ida
  3. Thea
  4. Sara
  5. Julia
  6. Nora
  7. Emilie
  8. Maria
  9. Ingrid
  10. Hanna
  1. Mathias
  2. Tobias
  3. Andreas
  4. Martin
  5. Kristian
  6. Jonas
  7. Markus
  8. Sander
  9. Kristoffer
  10. Daniel

Poland

Most popular names in whole population, May 2003

girls: number boys:number
  1. Anna
  2. Maria
  3. Katarzyna
  4. Małgorzata
  5. Agnieszka
  6. Krystyna
  7. Barbara
  8. Ewa
  9. Elżbieta
  10. Zofia

1.093.056
727.092
595.795
574.777
552.932
542.921
534.555
492.040
472.069
448.776

  1. Piotr
  2. Jan
  3. Andrzej
  4. Krzysztof
  5. Stanisław
  6. Tomasz
  7. Paweł
  8. Józef
  9. Marcin
  10. Marek

666.901
663.761
661.191
656.695
611.988
512.005
485.531
430.510
434.630
419.737

See also: Polish names

Scotland

Most popular baby names in 2002
Source: http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/grosweb/grosweb.nsf/pages/02name

boys: girls:
  1. Jack
  2. Lewis
  3. Cameron
  4. Ryan
  5. James
  6. Jamie
  7. Liam
  8. Matthew
  9. Ross
  10. Callum
  1. Chloe
  2. Sophie
  3. Emma
  4. Amy
  5. Erin
  6. Ellie
  7. Rachel
  8. Lauren
  9. Megan
  10. Hannah

United States

Every year in the United States the Social Security's Office of the Chief Actuary publishes a list of the top 10 names given at birth for both males and females in the United States. Here are all of those lists from 1880-2003.

1880s - 1890s - 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - 1990s - 2000s

See also

External link


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