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Most popular baby names 2015: Sophie and Maximilian
Young parents sometimes need to be creative – however, they are not in the choice of name for their children. In Germany, the classic names such as Maximilian and Sophie has been placed in the front. Old-fashioned is in fashion.
The top tab under the assigned names will remain in 2015 as in the previous year: Many parents named their children Sophie and Maximilian. Behind this manoeuvring – as of 2014 – Alexander and Marie. Young parents are apparently not always brave and resourceful, but at this point, likely to be conservative. Number three on the hit list, as a recent press release from the society for the German language reports, follow Elias and Sofia as most popular first name. Paul was ousted in fourth place.
The classic names have remained, in principle, on the front ten seats, the same as the Wiesbaden-based language researchers. There were only slight shifts, so Mia place five of Emma, for example, back to Robert. The end of the 90s, popular Name Leon moved from eighth place to fifth place. Jonas was in 2015 for the first time in the top ten most popular boy’s name.
Difference in first name
In the Ranking of the totality of the assigned names, so also the second, and all other names. If you look at the first name, the choice of the parents a little more creative: In the case of the boy name Jonas, Louis/Luis replaced at the top of the list. In the case of the girl, Mia, Hanna/Hannah has overtaken it and is located on the front of the top.
Mia was 2015 the most popular first name for girls
Exotic first name is rather rare
For the first time, the language researcher also identified a list of the most popular Turkish-Arab names in Germany. The name Elif, Layla and Nour with the girls name on the list for 2015. In the case of young Muhammad is at number one, followed by Ali and Malik.
Since 1977, the society for the German language of each year, the list of the most popular baby names. The language researchers evaluated for 2015, the data of 650 registry offices in Germany, a total of 940.000 name registrations. So that you captured more than 90 percent of this year assigned to the first name.
hm/ld (epd, dpa)