German popularity lists
Knud Bielefeld at beliebte-vornamen.de has allowed behindthename.com to publish the top 20 German names since 1890. There are no official name statistics in Germany so Knud analyzes birth notifications and compiles them into ranked lists. You can see the lists here: https://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/germany
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Interesting! Would be nice to see a longer list to see if they name there kids weird stuff but them dating back that far makes up for it.
I knew Germany had some naming laws, so I looked up a bit more about it:
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/08/naming-laws-in-germany/
Apparently things are somewhat lax in practice.
From the article, names that have been permitted in Germany:
Emilie-Extra
Christiansdottir
Kiran
Djehad
Fanta
Galaxina
Pumuckl
Emma Tiger
Cosma-Shiva
Names that have been denied:
Schmitz
Borussia
Pfefferminze
Verleihnix
Stone
Lord
Möwe
https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2017/08/naming-laws-in-germany/
Apparently things are somewhat lax in practice.
From the article, names that have been permitted in Germany:
Emilie-Extra
Christiansdottir
Kiran
Djehad
Fanta
Galaxina
Pumuckl
Emma Tiger
Cosma-Shiva
Names that have been denied:
Schmitz
Borussia
Pfefferminze
Verleihnix
Stone
Lord
Möwe
Very nice! And fun that they date back so far. Itś an interesting list. Thanks :)
Great news! Thanks to you for asking Knud, and thanks to Knud.
--elbowin
--elbowin