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Hanover / Bremen (dpa / lni) - According to a ranking by first name expert Knud Bielefeld in 2020, the names Emma and Finn were given the most frequently by parents in Lower Saxony.

In second and third place are the names Mia and Hannah, as well as Paul and Matteo.

In 2020, Mia, Emilia and Hannah as well as Noah, Ben and Matteo are at the top nationwide, according to the statistics published by the first name expert in Ahrensburg (Schleswig-Holstein) on Wednesday.

The name researcher Bielefeld also noticed typical names in 2020, which are mainly selected in Lower Saxony.

These include Enno, Hanno and Jonte as well as Enna, Jonna and Tilda.

In general, it is often the case that fashion names first appear in northern Germany and then establish themselves in southern Germany.

According to the name expert, there are too few birth reports for Bremen for a meaningful evaluation.

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For the statistics, Bielefeld and his helpers evaluated the baby galleries of maternity clinics as well as official gazettes 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.

Bielefeld has published the rankings of first names since 2006. The Society for the German Language also publishes similar statistics.

In a forecast in mid-December, she saw Emil and Lena with the best chances for first places nationwide.

Knud Bielefeld - Popular first names

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Birth statistics from the Federal Statistical Office

Most popular first names according to the Society for the German Language