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Ahrensburg (dpa / lby) - Sophia and Lukas have been the most popular first names of new parents in the Free State this year according to a ranking by first name expert Knud Bielefeld.
Emilia and Maximilian followed in second place, and Hannah and Felix in third place.
Bielefeld has evaluated around 23 percent of all birth reports in Germany for the statistics available to the German Press Agency.
Emma, Mia, Anna, Lea, Lena, Luisa and Clara were also popular with Bavarian parents.
When it came to boy names, Leon, Jakob, Elias, Luis, Paul, Jonas and Noah convinced many parents in 2020.
This shows clear deviations from the nationwide top 10 list in the Free State.
In 2020, Mia, Emilia and Hannah as well as Noah, Ben and Matteo will be at the top.
Emma, Sophia, Lina, Ella, Mila, Clara and Lea follow with the girls.
Finn, Leon, Elias, Paul, Henry, Luis and Felix are still very popular with the boys.
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Traditionally, there are regional peculiarities in first names.
According to Bielefeld, the names Josef, Korbinian, Xaver, Antonia, Franziska and Magdalena were particularly common in the Free State.
As a small comparison: Bosse, Jonte, Lasse, Janne, Jette and Lene are popular in Schleswig-Holstein.
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.
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Knud Bielefeld - Popular first names
Birth statistics from the Federal Statistical Office
Most popular first names according to the Society for the German Language