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Ahrensburg / Schwerin (dpa / mv) - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's parents chose the first names Hannah and Karl most frequently in 2020, according to a ranking by first name expert Knud Bielefeld.
Emma and Frieda as well as Finn and Theo follow in second and third place.
The statistics were published on Wednesday in Ahrensburg (Schleswig-Holstein).
Bielefeld recorded the names of around 23 percent of all children born for its list.
In 2019, Emilia, Frieda / Frida and Mia were still at the top of the girls' names in MV, while Ben, Emil and Oskar were very popular with boys.
In addition, the name researcher noticed typical names that are mainly selected in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
These include Fiete, Friedrich, Fritz, Helena, Luna and Merle.
Mia, Emilia and Hannah as well as Noah, Ben and Matteo are right at the top of Bielefeld's 2020 ranking.
The expert 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.
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 ranking lists 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.