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Popularity of the baby name Jakub


Posts that mention the name Jakub

Popular baby names in Slovakia, 2018

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Flag of Slovakia

According to Slovakia’s Interior Ministry, the most popular baby names in the country in 2018 were Sofia and Jakub.

Here are Slovakia’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2018:

Girl Names
1. Sofia, 772 baby girls
2. Ema, 706
3. Nina, 671
4. Viktória, 670
5. Natália, 603
6. Eliška, 578
7. Nela, 493
8. Tamara, 471
9. Laura, 448
10. Hana, 444

Boy Names
1. Jakub, 1,266 baby boys
4. Adam, 975
3. Michal, 934
4. Samuel, 913
5. Tomáš, 850
6. Filip, 767
7. Matej, 760
8. Martin, 754
9. Oliver, 753
10. Lukáš, 721

Sofia has been the #1 girl name in the country since 2008, and Jakub has been the #1 boy name “for most of the past decade.”

Though names of international origin (“such as Lucas or Vivien”) started filtering into Slovakia after WWII, they didn’t become popular until relatively recently.

Source: 2018: What were the most popular names for babies born in Slovakia?

Image: Adapted from Flag of Slovakia (public domain)

Popular baby names in the Czech Republic, 2016

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Flag of the Czech Republic

According to data from the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, the most popular baby names in the country in 2016 were Eliška and Jakub.

Here are the Czech Republic’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2016:

Girl Names

  1. Eliška, 2,219 baby girls
  2. Tereza, 1,915
  3. Anna, 1,765
  4. Adéla, 1,530
  5. Natálie, 1,382
  6. Ema, 1,274
  7. Viktorie, 1,246
  8. Sofie, 1,238
  9. Karolína, 1,187
  10. Kristýna, 1,017

Boy Names

  1. Jakub, 2,756 baby boys
  2. Jan, 2,426
  3. Adam, 2,020
  4. Tomáš, 1,843
  5. Matyáš, 1,727
  6. Filip, 1,607
  7. Ondrej, 1,575
  8. Vojtech, 1,569
  9. Matej, 1,553
  10. David, 1,532

I forgot to post the 2015 rankings, but here are the 2014 rankings — the top two names (Eliška and Jakub) were the same.

Some of the names used just once last year include: Arslen, Bivoj, Cirilla, Dalibor Jan, Elayo, Fedderick, Gyozo, Horst, Inari, Janko, Kvído, Leen, Mio, Nemanja, Oktavián, Pankrác, Quido Adam, Rostislava, Sagvan, Torian, Ute, Velen Vítek, Wendelin, Xenie, Yazan, and Žasmina. (This is a mix of both boy and girl names.)

Gyozo means “conqueror” in Hungarian. It’s basically the Hungarian equivalent of Victor.

Source: Cetnost jmen a príjmení (via Maybe it is Daijiro (aka Maks))

Image: Adapted from Flag of the Czech Republic (public domain)

Popular baby names in Poland, 2016

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According to data released by the government of Poland, the most popular baby names in the country in 2016 were Zuzanna and Antoni.

Here are Poland’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2016:

Girl Names
1. Zuzanna, 8,837 baby girls
2. Julia, 8,637
3. Lena, 8,367
4. Maja, 8,303
5. Hanna, 7,948
6. Zofia, 7,702
7. Amelia, 6,598
8. Alicja, 5,692
9. Aleksandra, 5,428
10. Natalia, 4,809

Boy Names
1. Antoni, 9,183 baby boys
2. Jakub, 8,942
3. Szymon, 8,264
4. Jan, 7,584
5. Filip, 6,674
6. Franciszek, 6,551
7. Mikolaj, 6,380
8. Aleksander, 6,248
9. Kacper, 5,995
10. Wojciech, 5,915

Each of these lists include the same 10 names as the year before, but in slightly different order. (The #1 names in 2015 were Zuzanna and Jakub.)

Here are the top baby names in Warsaw in 2015, and the top baby names in Poland in 2013.

Source: Data for 2016 – Ministry of Digitization (found via Maybe it is Daijiro)

Image: Adapted from Flag of Poland (public domain)

Popular baby names in Warsaw (Poland), 2015

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Flag of Poland

According to data released by the City of Warsaw, the most popular baby names in Warsaw, Poland, in 2015 were Zofia and Jan.

Here are Warsaw’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2015:

Girl Names

  1. Zofia, 535 baby girls
  2. Zuzanna, 506
  3. Julia, 486
  4. Hanna, 441
  5. Alicja, 434
  6. Maria, 409
  7. Maja, 405
  8. Natalia, 401
  9. Aleksandra, 371
  10. Amelia, 336

Boy Names

  1. Jan, 677 baby boys
  2. Antoni, 558
  3. Jakub, 471
  4. Aleksander, 418
  5. Franciszek, 411
  6. Adam, 399
  7. Filip, 343
  8. Stanislaw, 334
  9. Szymon, 329
  10. Mikolaj, 320

Amelia replaced Lena in the girls’ top 10.

Szymon replaced Kacper in the boys’ top 10.

Source: Warszawiaków przybywa – City of Warsaw (via Popularity of names in Warsaw, Poland, 2015)

Image: Adapted from Flag of Poland (public domain)