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Ahrensburg / Leipzig (dpa / sn) - According to a ranking by first name expert Knud Bielefeld, Hannah and Ben were the most popular baby names in Saxony in 2020.
Hannah defended her top position from the previous year, Ben moved up from third place, as the annual evaluation of the hobby name researcher Knud Bielefeld from Ahrensburg in Schleswig-Holstein showed.
In second and third place in 2020 were Mia and Emma and Karl and Emil.
The names Mia and Noah were the most popular nationwide.
Bielefeld recorded the names of around 23 percent of all children born for its list.
In his evaluation, he also chooses the most unusual names.
In 2020, nationwide, these included Archibald, Octavio and Flake for boys and Amore, Lönna and Marvelous for girls.
Compared to other federal states, the names Arthur, Gustav, Kurt, Gerda, Helene and Nathalie were particularly common in Saxony.
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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The Society for German Language also publishes similar statistics with 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.
Society for the German Language