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Ahrensburg (dpa / lsw) - Sophia and Leon are the most popular first names in Baden-Wuerttemberg according to a ranking by hobby name researcher Knud Bielefeld.
On the ranking published on Wednesday, they replace Emilia and Elias, the leaders of the previous year.
In the other places follow Hannah, Mia and Emma as well as Noah, Elias and Luca for the boy's names.
In addition, children in the south-west are particularly often named David, Diego, Samuel, Alessia, Chiara and Malea compared to other federal states.
Bielefeld regularly determines the most common baby names and, according to its own information, recorded almost 180,000 birth names this year.
That corresponds to about 23 percent of all children born in Germany this year.
According to him, about half of the data come from maternity clinics (51 percent) and registry offices (49 percent).
Sources from 465 cities were evaluated, as it was said.
Nationwide, Mia and, for the first time, Noah are ahead.
You are replacing Emma, leader in 2019, and Ben: This first name had been number one for nine years in a row.
Unusual boy's names were Jador or Stancho and Marvelous or Lönna for the girls.
Knud Bielefeld has published the rankings of first names since 2006.
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The Society for German Language (GfdS) has published similar statistics since 1977 in the middle of the year.
She determined the baby names Hanna and Noah to be in first place for 2019 and forecast Lena and Emil as possible top candidates for 2020.
The GfdS obtains its data from the registry offices of all provincial capitals, most large cities, the district and district-free cities and from other small registry offices.
According to the GfdS, around 90 percent of all first names registered in Germany are recorded.
The GfdS list for 2020 is to be published in spring 2021
Hit lists of popular first names compiled by Bielefeld since 1890
Top ten of the most popular first names of the GfdS