This was reported on the website of the mayor of the capital.
It is noted that over the past months of 2019 in Moscow, boys were most often called Alexander (2200 children), and girls - Sofia (2400 children).
Also popular names among newborn boys were Mikhail, Maxim, Ivan, Artyom, and among girls - Maria, Alexandra, Anna, Alisa.
Some parents also chose unusual names for their children, for example, 34 boys were named Dobrynya, and 26 were named Habib. For girls in this category, Esenia became a fairly popular name - 315 were so named.
In May, it was reported that a girl born in the spring in the metropolitan area of Pokrovskoye-Streshnevo was named after one of the main characters in the American TV series Game of Thrones, Arya.
In April, Elena Filatova, the head of the General Administration of the Civil Registry Office of the Moscow Region, told which children's names were less common in the region since the beginning of 2019.