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Austria, 2014

SELECT YEAR 2014 2008–2010

State in Central Europe. The capital is Vienna. It borders with the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Germany. Administratively, it is divided into nine independent lands: Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and equivalent Vienna (the capital of the country). The population is 8,420,010 (2013 est.).

The main ethnic group is the Austrians, who speak the Austrian version of the German language (native to 98% of the country's citizens). 74.1% of Austrians are Catholics, 4.6% are Protestants, 4.3% are Muslims, 2.2% are Orthodox, 12% do not identify themselves with any of the confessions recognized in Austria (data for 2001.) .

The main source for name statistics in Austria is data from the non-profit federal agency Statistics Austria (Statistik Österreich). His website has a section dedicated to names. Name statistics are given for 1) the 60 most frequent names for each year since 1984. (throughout Austria and in each of its states); only names of natives with Austrian citizenship are taken into account; 2) an alphabetical list of the names of the current year with a frequency of at least 5 (only in the context of the entire country). It is stipulated that when calculating, names that sound the same are combined. Therefore, spelling variants with different pronunciations are counted separately (for example, Sophia and Sophie).

The most recent data is for 2014. The leader of the male personal name is the name Lucas(18th time since 1996, only in 2013 it was in second place, after the name Tobias). In girls, the most common is Anna(before that it was in the lead in 2013, 2014, 2010, 2004 and 2002).

I will show the 25 most common names of newborns in the families of Austrian citizens in 2014.

Boys names

Place	Name	Quantity and percentage of named
1	Lucas	812(2,36%)
2	Maximilian	810(2,36%)
3	Jacob	771(2,24%)
4	David	768(2,23%)
5	Tobias	720(2,09%)
6	Paul	708(2,06%)
7	Jonas	698(2,03%)
8	Felix	673(1,96%)
9–10	Alexander Elias	651(1,89%) 651(1,89%)
11	Raphael	623(1,81%)
12	Simon	586(1,71%)
13	Fabian	582(1,69%)
14	Sebastian	552(1,61%)
15	Leon	541(1,57%)
16	Luca	531(1,55%)
17	Julian	514(1,50%)
18	Florian	512(1,49%)
19	Moritz	483(1,41%)
20	Philipp	464(1,35%)
21	Matthias	432(1,26%)
22	noah	411(1,20%)
23	Samuel	411(1,20%)
24	Nico	328(0,95%)
25	Benjamin	318(0,93%)

Girls names

Place	Name	Number and percentage of named
1	Anna	836 (2,60%)
2	Hannah	741 (2,31%)
3	Sophia	639 (1,99%)
4–5	Emma Marie	636 (1,98%) 636 (1,98%)
6	Lena	620 (1,93%)
7	Sarah	608 (1,89%)
8	Sophie	607 (1,89%)
9	Laura	561 (1,75%)
10	Mia	546 (1,70%)
11	Emilia	517 (1,61%)
12	Leonie	503 (1,57%)
13	Johanna	500 (1,56%)
14	Lea	486 (1,51%)
15	Valentina	477 (1,49%)
16	Julia	457 (1,42%)
17	Katharina	417 (1,30%)
18	Luisa	380 (1,18%)
19	Lara	356 (1,11%)
20	Magdalena	353 (1,10%)
21	Lisa	336 (1,05%)
22	Amelie	334 (1,04%)
23	Viktoria	302 (0,94%)
24	Emily	289 (0,90%)
25	Elena	286 (0,89%)

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Austrian names

Austrian male and female names

Austria is a state in Central Europe. The capital is Vienna. Austria borders the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Germany.

Administratively Austria is divided into nine independent lands: Burgenland, Carinthia, Lower Austria, Upper Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and equivalent Vienna (the country's capital).

Largest cities: Vienna, Graz, Linz, Salzburg, Innsbruck.

The population of Austria is about 8.5 million people.

Basic population- Austrians who speak the Austrian variety of German.

Austrian male names

Alexander (Alexander)

Daniel (Daniel)

David (David)

Dominik (Dominic)

Elias (Elias)

Felix (Felix)

Fabian (Fabian)

Florian (Florian)

Jacob (Jacob)

Jonas (Jonas)

Julian (Julian)

Leon (Leon)

Luca (Luca)

Lucas (Lucas)

Matthias (Matthias)

Maximilian (Maximilian)

Michael (Michelle)

Moritz (Moritz)

Nico (Nico)

Niklas (Niklas)

Paul (Paul)

Philipp (Philip)

Tobias (Tobias)

Raphael (Raphael)

Sebastian (Sebastian)

Simon (Simon)

Austrian female names

Amelie (Amelia)

Anna (Anna)

Elena (Elena)

Emily (Emily)
Emma (Emma)

Hannah (Hannah)

Jana (Jana)

Julia (Julia)

Johanna (Joanna)

Katharina (Katarina)

Lara (Lara)

Laura (Laura)

Lea (Lea)

Lena (Lena)

Leonie (Leoni)

Lisa (Fox)

Marie (Mary)

Magdalena (Magdalena)

Mia (Mia)

Nina (Nina)

Sarah (Sarah)

Sophia (Sofia)

Sophie (Sophie)

Theresa (Teresa)

Valentina (Valentina)

Viktoria (Victoria)

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The meaning and origin of male and female German names and surnames. Ancient and modern German names. Interesting facts about German names.

4.08.2016 / 14:19 | Varvara Pokrovskaya

You have acquaintances, friends, business partners from Germany and you want to know more about their names and surnames. Then this article will surely be useful to you.

Features of German names

German names were formed in several stages under the influence of political, historical, cultural processes. According to their origin, they can be divided into three groups:

• old Germanic names

They were formed back in the 7th-4th centuries. BC e. Closely connected with magic, mythology, totem, military symbols and were called upon to influence the future fate and character of a person. Some of them are of Scandinavian origin. Consist of two parts. In modern use, there are no more than a few hundred of them. The rest are long outdated.

• Latin, Greek, Hebrew (Biblical) names

Widespread so far, due to its versatility. They are familiar to the ears of representatives of any country and go well with surnames. They are used both in their original form and with some phonetic changes characteristic of the German language. For example: Victor, Katarina (Catherine), Nicholas (Nikolai), Alexander, Johann (Ivan), Joseph (Joseph), etc.

• foreign names used in abbreviated form

Fashion for them appeared in the middle of the last century. At first they were French - Marie, Annette, Catherine. Later they were joined by Russians (Sasha, Natasha, Vera, Vadim) and Arabic/Turkic variants of Jam (Jamil), Abu (Abdullah) and others.

Meanings of some ancient Germanic names

	"noble" + "protector"
	"eagle" + "wolf"
	"brilliant" + "raven"
	""horse" + "protector"
	"victory" + "strong"
	"battle" + "friend"
	"spear" + "store"
	"rich" + "ruler"
	"noble" + "wolf"
	"leader" + "forests"
	"invincible" + "army"
	"wisdom" + "protector"
	"woman" + "warrior"

Until now, there is a tradition in Germany to give the newborn several names, sometimes there are up to ten. Upon reaching the age of majority, this number can be reduced at your discretion. The usual practice is 1-2 given names + surname. Middle names are not used.

Did you know that the full name of the legendary Catherine I is Sophia-August-Frederick of Anhalt-Zerbst (German: Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg), the genius Mozart is Johann Chrysostomos Wolfgang Theophil Mozart, the current Vice-Chancellor of Germany is Angela Dorothea Merkel (Kasner) - Angela Dorothea Merkel (Kasner)?

But they are far from the record holder. In 1904, one baby was given a 740-letter name at birth. It looked something like this: Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvine John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Juncas Victor William Xerxes Yancey Zeus Wolfe schlegelsteinhausenbergerdor + a few hundred more hard-to-read and almost untranslatable letter combinations. A no less impressive surname was attached to it, but a little more modest - only 540 letters.

Restrictions

German society is known for its conservatism and pedantry. This also applies to names. Unlike Russia and the CIS countries, which are liberal in this regard, where registry offices quite officially register children with the names Tsar, Cinderella, Dolphin and even Lucifer, such a number will not work in Germany. Exotic parents will have to defend their opinion in court, the decision of which is unlikely to be comforting for them. There are a number of restrictions fixed at the legislative level + a list of allowed names.

Forbidden:

• Giving a name without a clear gender sign, i.e. calling a boy a female name or a girl a male. The exception is the name Maria. It can be chosen as the second male: Paul Maria, Hans Maria, Otto Maria.
• Use topographic names - cities, towns, countries.
• Religious taboos - Allah, Judas, Demon, Christ, Buddha.
• Offensive, ambiguous names. For example, Peter Silie - Parsley.
• Surnames of famous people.
• Titles.
• Brand names - Porsche, Pampers, Joghurt.
• Name children from the same family with the same name. But this ban can be easily bypassed if desired. It is enough to register double names with the same first, but different second: Anna-Maria and Anna-Martha, Karl-Richard and Karl-Stefan.

For obvious reasons, to this day the name Adolf is an unspoken taboo.

Phonetics

Not true: Heinrich Heine, Wilhelm Hohenzollern

Correctly: Heinrich Heine, Wilhelm Hohenzollern

Error: Hans, Helmut

Right: Hans, Hellmuth

But: Herbert, Gerwig, Gerda, Herman

German female names

In modern Germany, abbreviated female names are very common. Instead of Katarina - Katya, Margarita - Margot. You can often find forms formed by the merger of two different names: Anna + Margaret = Annagret, Maria + Magdalena = Marlena, Anna + Maria = Annamaria, Anna + Lisa = Anneliese, Hanna + Laura (Lauryn) = Hannelore. German female names end in -lind(a), -hild(a), -held(a), -a, ine, -i. The exception is the name Erdmut (Erdmute).

List of common German female names:

• Agna, Agnetta, Agnes - chaste, holy;
• Anna, Annie - mercy (God), grace;
• Astrid - beautiful, goddess of beauty;
• Beata - blessed;
• Berta - brilliant, magnificent;
• Wilda - wild;
• Ida is kind;
• Laura - laurel;
• Margareta, Greta - a gem;
• Rosemary - reminder;
• Sophie, Sophia - wisdom;
• Teresa - strong and beloved;
• Ursula - bear;
• Hanna - God is merciful;
• Helga - divine;
• Helena - torch;
• Hilda - practical;
• Frida - peaceful;

Erma - harmonious.

German names for men

In the 20th century, the majestic names of the German kings and emperors - Albert, Karl, Wilhelm, Friedrich, Heinrich - were replaced by simpler ones - Andreas, Alexander, Alex, Michael, Klaus, Peter, Eric, Frank. The names of literary heroes and characters from films have become widespread: Til, Daniel, Chris, Emil, Otto, Arno, Felix, Rocky. Mostly male German names end in consonants, often at the end combinations of letters -brand, -ger, -bert, -hart, -mut are used. Less oh.

German names and surnames

The first German surnames appeared in the Middle Ages and belonged exclusively to aristocrats. They pointed to the origin of a person, personal qualities, generic names. Ordinary people were addressed simply by their first name. By the beginning of the 20th century, all Germans had surnames, regardless of class.

In modern Germany, surnames mainly consist of one word, occasionally two. The law of 1993 abolished three-syllable and more constructions. Aristocratic prefixes - von der, von, der, von und zu are written together with the main part of the surname: von Berne - Vonbern, der Löwe - Derlöwe. The indication of titles was abolished in 1919.

Surnames of Slavic origin in Germany do not change their ending, regardless of whether they belong to a man or a woman. At the time of marriage, both spouses receive a common surname. Traditionally, this is the husband's surname. It is also given to children. Change of surnames in Germany at will is not allowed. The exception is cases with dissonant options. In German identity documents, the main name is indicated in the first place, then the second, and after them the surname: Michael Stefan Haase, Mari Stefani Klain, Hanns Gerbert Rosenberg.

Common German surnames

Russian spelling	German	Meaning
		Peasant
		Brown
		carriage maker
		Small
		Curly
		collier
		Homeowner
		Manager
		New man, unknown
Hoffman (Hoffman)		courtier, page
Zimmermann
		Warden
Stelmacher		Kolesnik

German boy names

In the family, when communicating with peers or in an informal setting to address boys, diminutive and short forms of the name are used, formed by adding the suffixes -lein, -le, -cher, Heinz - Heinzle, Klaus - Klauslein, Peter - Peterle (by analogy with Russians -chka, -check-, -enka, - point: Vovochka, Vanechka, Petenka).

German girls names

The same rule applies when creating girlish diminutive names: Petra, Velma, Irma - Petralein, Velmacher, Irmachen, Rosechen. When formally addressed to girls over 15, Fraeulein is added before the name, to beautiful younger ladies - Maedchen.

Beautiful German names

The rigidity of sound characteristic of the German language gives uniqueness and inimitable charm to both native German names and borrowed ones, for example, Italian or Russian. Beauty and harmony, of course, are subjective concepts, but we managed to compile the top of the most beautiful German names according to social media users.

Top 10 most beautiful female German names

1. Alma
2. Angelica
3. Iolanta
4. Isolde
5. Louise
6. Mirabella
7. Emily
8. Paula
9. Silvia
10. Frederic

Top 10 most beautiful male German names:

1. Stephen
2. Elias
3. Lucas
4. Martin
5. juergen
6. Gabriel
7. Emil
8. Ralph
9. Theodore (Theo)

The meaning of German names

Quite often in Germany there are biblical names, only in a slightly modified form. Their meaning corresponds to the original source.

Biblical names

Original	German variant	Translation, meaning
	Abel, Habel
Abraham, Abraham	Abram, Abi, Bram, Braham	father of nations
Immanuel	Emmanuelle, Amy, Immo	God with us
		he laughed
		holding on to the heel
	Jeremias, Jochem	Yahweh lifted up
	Johan, Johan, Hans, Jan	God is merciful
	Johanna, Hanna, Yana	female form from John
		God will reward
Magdalene	Magdalena, Lena, Magda, Madeleine	from the name of the settlement on the shores of Lake Galilee
Maria (Mariam)	Maria, Marie, Meral	bitter, desirable
	Matthaus, Matthias
	Michael, Michael	who is like a god
	Michaela, Michaela	female version by Michael
	Mose, Moses	floating
	Rebecca, Becky
	Rachel, Rachelchen
	Zara, Sarah, Zarhen
	Samuel, Sami, Zami	god heard
	Thomas, Tommy, Tom,

Popular German names

Sophie, Marie, Mia were the most popular female names in 2015, according to data from several hundred German birth registration offices Standesamt. Among men, Lucas, Alexander, Max, Ben are in the lead. Also, many parents are increasingly choosing somewhat old-fashioned names for newborns: Karl, Julius, Otto, Oswald.

German Shepherd Names

A properly chosen dog name will greatly facilitate the process of training and everyday interaction with the animal. The best option is a name of one or two syllables, with voiced consonants, partially characterizing the character or appearance of the pet. It is recommended to call puppies from the same litter with names starting with one letter.

For German Shepherds - smart, disciplined, handsome, nicknames-titles such as Kaiser, Graf, Lord, King, Milady are suitable. You can use the words in German: Schwarz - black, Brown - brown, Schnell - fast, Spock - Calm, Edel - noble. The names of various German provinces in full or abbreviated form sound beautiful - Westphalia, Lorraine (Lori, Lot), Bavaria, Alsace.

German male and female names: what do typical German names and surnames mean? which ones are the most popular in Germany? Can Germans call their child an unusual and strange name? Read all the details in our article!

It has long been believed that the name of a person performs the function of a talisman that protects and influences the fate of its bearer. Many tend to believe this to this day. So what are children called in Germany? Read all about German names and surnames in our article.

Where did it all begin?

Previously, people of the humble class managed only one name, for example, Heinrich, Anna, Dietrich. This fact is recorded in the documents of the past, for example, in church books, contracts, court papers and literary works of that time.

During the Late Middle Ages, there was a trend when common name (Rufname) began to be added nickname or surname. Rufname- this is the name by which it was preferable to address a person, for example, Heinrich. Beiname- this is a nickname that a person received depending on personal qualities, features of appearance and other things.

Nicknames might have been needed to indicate that out of dozens of Heinrich bearers, it was the curly-haired one: Heinrich Krause could have appeared this way. Also, this step was important for the city administration and other bureaucrats, again to distinguish the townspeople from each other.

German names and their origin

It is conditionally possible to divide German names into two groups - Old Germanic and foreign languages ​​(Latin and Greek) who came after the spread of Christianity. To the names Old Germanic origin include, for example, Karl, Ulrich, Wolfgang, Gertrud . Old Germanic names usually consisted of from two bases, each of which had its own meaning. Such names were supposed to influence the fate of a person, patronize and protect him. In ancient documents (750-1080), about 7000 two-root Germanic names are indicated, most of which were male.

In the 11th century, such a variety of names came to naught due to the influence of Christianity and the arrival of new, southern European names. The new religion gradually contributed to the fact that Germanic names lost popularity and fell into oblivion. By the way, today the Germans are quite religious, you can read what they believe.

It is interesting that in ancient Germanic names there are many roots mean war, battle or weapons .

Examples of stems denoting:

✏ battle: badu, gund, hadu, hari, hild, wig

✏ Weapon: ekka, ger(a spear), isan, ort(weapon point)

✏ Basics denoting ammunition and protection:
brown: chest shield
burg: refuge
guard: fence
helm: helmet
linta: linden shield
rand: high shield

✏ Roots meaning battle characteristics:

bald: (kühn) bold
harti: (hart) strong
kuni: (kühn) courageous
muot: brave
labor: (Kraft) strength

✏ And signifiers aftermath of the battle:

sigu: (Sieg) victory
hour: (friede) world
fridu: (Waffenruhe) armistice
diet: (Natur) nature

✏ Animal world:

arn: (Adler) eagle
bero: (Bär) bear
ebur: (Eber) boar
hraban: (Rabe) raven
wolf, wolf: (Wolf) wolf

The original meaning of many names today is difficult to decipher, since in the connection of the roots some letters of the name were lost over time. However, studying ancient names, one can undoubtedly discover many interesting cultural and historical details.

Unfortunately, today the interpretation of ancient Germanic names is rather generalized. Also, in addition to the two-root names mentioned, there were also some single-root ones. Famous among them are, for example, Karl, Bruno and Ernst .

Meanings of some German names

Heinrich- housekeeper
Wolfgang- path of the wolf
Ludwig- famous warrior
Wilhelm- reliable helmet
Friedrich- peaceful ruler
Rudolf- glorious wolf

FROM with the spread of Christianity, names of Greek and Roman origin were increasingly used than the German one. In comparison with the ancient Germanic names, they lacked the principle of dividing into two bases.

latin names with Roman origin are quite ordinary in their meaning and do not carry the grandeur inherent in ancient Germanic names: Paulus is small, Claudius is lame. Often, names for children were chosen depending on how the child was born in a row: Tertiat- third.

Traditional and beautiful-sounding names are very unsightly in their meaning, for example, Claudia - lame. Names that came under Greek influence were more cheerful. Amanda is worthy of love, Felix is ​​happy.

For the past five years, the lists of the most popular female and male names have been occupied by Mia and Emma among girls, and Ben, Jonas and Luis among boys.

Other fashionable female names of recent years: Sofia, Anna, Emilia, Marie, Lena, Lea, Amelie, Emily, Lilly, Clara, Lara, Nele, Pia, Paula, Alina, Sarah, Luisa. Popular male names of the last five years: Leon, Lucas, Maximillian, Moritz, Tom, Tim, Eric, Jannik, Alexander, Aaron, Paul, Finn, Max, Felix.

And the most common names of Germany among the adult population (born between 1980 and 2000) sound quite different. For example, here most common male names: Peter, Michael, Wolfgang, Jurgen, Andreas, Stephan, Christian, Uwe, Werner, Hans, Mathias, Helmut, Jorg, Jens.

Women's names: Ursula, Sabine, Monica, Susanne, Petra, Birgit, Andrea, Anna, Brigitte, Claudia, Angelika, Heike, Gabriele, Cathrin, Anja, Barbara . These names are not very common among young people and you can meet them sooner among the older generation.

In German, there are not many ways to form a diminutive name. The main ones are: -le, -lein, -chen, for example, in the names Peterle, Udolein, Susannchen .. By the way, more about word formation in German. By a diminutive name, a person can be addressed in the family circle.

Among friends, at school or university, just the short form of the name is more often used, it is more neutral: Klaus by Nikolaus, Gabi by Gabriel, Sussi by Susanne, Hans by Johannes . As a rule, short names are formed using the -i morpheme at the end of a word.

Today, it is not uncommon for parents to initially give the child exactly the short form of a name: Tony(instead of full Antonie) or Kurt(instead of Konrad). At the same time, the names obtained in this way are used on a par with the original full forms. The use of short forms as independent names has been officially allowed since the 19th century. It is noteworthy that short and diminutive names are mostly neuter.

And my last name is too famous for me to call it!

As in many other European countries, in Germany surnames first appeared among the nobility and feudal lords, as a sign of belonging to an eminent family at the beginning of the Middle Ages. Gradually, ordinary, not noble people also received surnames. As in Russian, many surnames go back to the designations of professions, occupation, place of residence and human qualities(Kuznetsov, Popov, Volkov, Khoroshkin) or personal names (Ivanov, Antonov).

As for differences, German surnames, as a rule, do not have feminine or masculine indicators, unlike Russian ones, where endings and suffixes almost always tell the gender of the carrier: Kuznetsov - Kuznetsova, Ilyin - Ilyina, Savelyev - Savelyeva. It is worth noting that this was not always the case, and until the beginning of the 19th century in Germany there were special, feminine endings for surnames.

✏ German surnames formed from personal names:

Walter, Hermann, Werner, Hartmann.

✏ Surnames derived from nicknames:

Klein- small
Brown-brown
Neumann- new person
Krause- curly
Lange- long, lanky
Jung- young
Schwarz- black-haired
Stolz- proud
Bart- bearded man

✏ Surnames formed from the name of professions and type of activity:

Muller- miller
Schmidt- blacksmith
Fischer- fisherman
Schneider- tailor, cutter
Wagner
- carriage master
Meyer- manager (estate)
Weber- weaver
hoffman- courtier
Koch- cook
Becker- from him. Backer - baker
Schafer- shepherd
Schulz- warden
Richter- referee
bauer- peasant, country man
Schroder- tailor
Zimmermann- a carpenter
Kruger- potter, innkeeper
Lehmann- landowner
Konig- king
Kohler- collier
Schuhmacher- shoemaker

10 most common surnames and their famous carriers

♦ Otto Müller(1898 - 1979) - German artist and graphic artist.

♦ Matthias Muller(1953) - head of the VW auto concern.

♦ Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt(1918 - 2015), German politician (SPD), Chancellor of Germany in 1974 - 1982

♦ Romy Schneider(1938 - 1982), Austrian-German actress, who received recognition for her role in the Sisi film trilogy.

♦ Helene Fischer(1984) German singer, hit and pop music performer.

♦ Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Meyer(1856 - 1935) - German mathematician.

♦ Maximilian Carl Emil Weber(1864 - 1920) German lawyer, economist and co-founder of sociology.

♦ Axel Schulz(1968) - German boxer.

♦ Richard Wagner(1813 - 1883) - German composer who wrote the music and libretto for the opera Der Ring des Nibelungen.

♦ Boris Franz Becker(1967) - German professional tennis player and Olympic champion.

♦ Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann(1776 - 1822) - German lawyer, writer, composer, bandmaster, music critic, artist. Author of the books "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King", "Worldly Views of the Cat Murr".

May I apply?

When filling out official forms, they are always asked to indicate Vorname and Nachname. In field Vorname should be written with your first name, and Nachname with your last name.

In everyday life, the word der Name means exactly the surname: "Mein Name ist Müller."

When politely addressing “You” to a man, they say Herr + (Nachname): Herr Müller When politely addressing “You” to a woman, Frau + (Nachname): Frau Müller

Interestingly, German law prohibits giving children as names place names (Bremen, London), titles (Prinzessin), trademarks (Coca-Cola), surnames or fictitious names (as is customary, for example, in the USA). But it is allowed to give the child up to five names- while only two of them can be written with a hyphen (Anne-Marie).

Also unacceptable are names that are considered immoral and degrading to the dignity of a child, considered religious taboo or are not given names. If the registry office officials refuse to enter the chosen name, the issue will be resolved in court.

Useful words and expressions

Das Kind beim Namen nennen
Die Dinge beim Namen nennen- call a spade a spade
Auf einen Namen horen- respond to a nickname (about animals)
unter falschem Namen- under a false name
Mein Name ist Hase- my hut is on the edge

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Natalia Khametshina, Deutsch Online

Germany does not keep official statistics on given names, but the German enthusiastic scientist Knud Bielefeld, who regularly determines the most common German baby names, does this for her.

In 2012, he was able to analyze 165,979 birth certificates from all over Germany, about 25 percent of all those born in 2012. His estimate is based on publications from 430 different sources, including data from maternity hospitals, clinics and registry offices. We talk about the top three: the most popular female and male names in Germany in 2012 and give the TOP-25 names with their spelling in German and Russian.

The most popular German female names

Mia- an abbreviated form of the biblical name Mary. The name Mia was not popular until the 90th year, but since 2007 the name Mia has entered the top 10 most common names among babies. Since 2009, Mia has been the most popular female name in Germany. The name "Mia" is a popular German pop-rock band.

Very often girls were called Emma at the end of the 19th century. During the 20th century the name Emma lost popularity. The return of the name began at the beginning of the 2000s, and for the past 10 years, Emma has been in the top 10 most frequent German names.

German name Hannah used in two versions - as Hannah and Hanna, while 59% of modern Hannas have an “h” at the end of the name. Since 1979, this name has been gaining popularity, and for the last 15 years, most German parents have liked it. The result is logical - in schools, Hannah is the most common name.

The most popular German male names

Ben- a German male name borrowed from English. Despite the fact that the name Ben is a shortened form of Benjamin, the Germans do not use the full form, considering that it is quite normal to write the name Ben on a child's birth certificate. Moreover, many parents give their child a middle name, such as Ben Luca, or Ben Louis. Since 2001, the popularity of the name Ben has not fallen below the top 30.

Luca- the popularity of the name was set by Susan Viga, whose song of the same name entered the charts around the world in 1987. Since that time, Luca has been on the rise in the list of preferences of German parents. Luke's name in Germany has long overtaken America in popularity. Luca is the name of the unisex generation: it is assigned to both girls and boys. The male name Luca comes from the Italian form of the name Lucas. Feminine - to the Catholic Lutz, or Lucia. According to German law, the child does not have to be given a middle name in this case: the vast majority of children with the name Luke are boys.

German name Paul was at the peak of its popularity in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The fashion for names changed, the male name Paul was forgotten to start gaining popularity again, following England, in the late seventies, and enter the top 30 most popular male German names at the beginning of the 19th century. The meaning of the name Paul is "small". The name takes its roots from the ancient Roman Paulus.

The most popular German names in Germany among babies in 2012:

Women's names		Male names
Mia	Mia	Ben	ben
Emma	Emma	Luca / Luca	Luca
Hannah / Hannah	Hannah	Paul	Paul
Leah / Leah	Lea	Lucas / Lucas	Lucas
Sofia / Sofia	Sofia	Finn / Finn	Finn
Anna	Anna	Jonas	Yohas
Lena	Lena	Leon	Leon
Leonie	Leoni	Louis / Louis	Louis
Lina	Lina	Maximilian	Maximilian
Marie	Marie	Felix	Felix
Emily / Emily	Emily	noah	Noah
Emilia	Emilia	Elias	Elias
Lilly / Lilly	Lilly	Tim	Tim
Louisa / Louisa	Louise	Max	Max
Amelie	Amelie	Julian	Julian
Sophie / Sophie	Sophie	Moritz	Moritz
Laura	Laura	Philipp	Philip
Neele / Neele	Nele	Niklas / Niclas	Niklas
Johanna	Johanna	Jacob / Jacob	Jacob
Lara	Lara	Alexander	Alexander
Maja / Maya	Maya	David	David
Sarah / Sarah	Sarah	Jan	Jan
Clara / Clara	Clara	Henry / Henry	Henry
Leni	Leni	Tom	Volume
Charlotte	Charlotte	Eric / Eric	Eric