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Ahrensburg (dpa / lno) - According to a ranking by first name expert Knud Bielefeld in 2020, parents in Schleswig-Holstein chose the first names Emilia and Ben most often.
Mia and Ida as well as Elias and Finn follow in second and third place, as can be seen from the statistics of the first name expert published in Ahrensburg on Wednesday.
In 2019 Emma, Hanna / Hannah and Ida as well as Ben, Finn / Fynn and Luis / Louis were at the top.
In addition, the name researcher noticed typical names that are mainly selected in Schleswig-Holstein.
These include Bosse, Jonte, Lasse, Janne, Jette and Lene.
In general, it is often the case that fashion names first appear in northern Germany and then establish themselves in southern Germany.
In 2020, Mia, Emilia and Hannah as well as Noah, Ben and Matteo are at the top nationwide.
For the statistics, Bielefeld and his helpers evaluated the baby galleries of maternity clinics as well as the registry office data from 465 locations.
For the year 2020 he recorded and evaluated almost 180,000 birth notifications from all over Germany.
This corresponds to around 23 percent of all children born in 2020.
In 2019, around 781,000 newborns were born in Germany.
The figures for 2020 are not yet available.
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Bielefeld has been publishing the rankings of first names since 2006. The Society for German Language publishes similar statistics with, according to its own information, around 90 percent of all data from the registry offices.
In a forecast in mid-December, she saw Emil and Lena with the best chances for the top places nationwide.
Knud Bielefeld - Popular first names
Birth statistics from the Federal Statistical Office
Most popular first names according to the Society for the German Language