Exit Emma and Gabrielle, make way for Jade, or even Léo.
The list of the most used names reveals that the shorter the first name, the more successful it is.
Some also stand out because of the news, like Milan, the son of Nabila, in 2019, or Kylian, after the victory of the Blues, in 2018.
Change in the list of the most popular first names.
For the first time in ten years, Emma and Gabrielle are no longer at the top of the ranking.
New trends are emerging.
While nearly 750,000 babies were born last year in France, some 3,814, Jade - the most common name for girls - were born ... And even more Leo, on the boys side.
Because what has the most success, it is the short first names, but also, in the girls, the first names in "A".
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Sometimes a glory linked to the news
"Here is Alisha, and my second, Mia. It's short, we are in the era of texting, I think that's why", laughs this mother interviewed by Europe 1. On the boys' side, on the podium, there is also Gabriel, Raphaël, or Arthur. But it happens that a first name knows a certain glory thanks to the news. "Joséphine, for example ... When Alain Bashung made his song 'Osez Joséphine', there were a few dozen or hundreds of little Joséphines in addition," explains Baptiste Coulmont, a sociologist of first names.
This is also what happened when the star Nabila gave birth to a baby Milan in 2019. Since then, almost 700 parents have chosen the same first name for their children. A craze also noted for the first name Kylian, in reference to the player of the Franc football team, Kilian Mbappe ... Even if he loses 30 places this year.