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Don't know if anyone else has posted this yet, but here is a link to an article about the Top Ten names for babies of each gender born in Germany in 2006:
http://german.about.com/library/blname_top10.htm
I was surprised to see that Finn made the top ten list for boys in Germany in 2006. Does anyone know if there is any particular thing in German popular culture that has introduced this name to German parents recently?
More information: I looked at the original site the data came from, (URL below) and it gives the Top 200 names. However, if I am reading my German correctly, this site makes clear that the government in Germany does NOT put out national statistics, but that the owners of this site collect data from 79 different birth clinics or hospitals throughout Germany to come up with the list, and that there were 27,700 births in those clinics in 2006. I don't know what % of the total births in Germany that is, or how those clinics reflect the social and ethnic makeup of the country. I suspect that this list under-represents all those of Turkish descent who live in Germany, as the first name which looks Turkish to me on this list, Mustafa, is way down at #187, and I bet a true national list would now show Turkish names as being more prominent than that in Germany.
http://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/2006.htm
http://german.about.com/library/blname_top10.htm
I was surprised to see that Finn made the top ten list for boys in Germany in 2006. Does anyone know if there is any particular thing in German popular culture that has introduced this name to German parents recently?
More information: I looked at the original site the data came from, (URL below) and it gives the Top 200 names. However, if I am reading my German correctly, this site makes clear that the government in Germany does NOT put out national statistics, but that the owners of this site collect data from 79 different birth clinics or hospitals throughout Germany to come up with the list, and that there were 27,700 births in those clinics in 2006. I don't know what % of the total births in Germany that is, or how those clinics reflect the social and ethnic makeup of the country. I suspect that this list under-represents all those of Turkish descent who live in Germany, as the first name which looks Turkish to me on this list, Mustafa, is way down at #187, and I bet a true national list would now show Turkish names as being more prominent than that in Germany.
http://www.beliebte-vornamen.de/2006.htm
This message was edited 1/31/2007, 3:17 PM
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