The mountainous country of Austria, located in the southern part of Central Europe, shares a border with eight other countries (including Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Hungary, Italy, and Slovenia).
Last year, Austria welcomed over 86,000 babies — 41,841 girls and 44,237 boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Marie and Paul.
Here are Austria’s top 25 girl names and top 25 boy names of 2021:
Girl Names
- Marie, 795 baby girls
- Emilia, 690
- Anna, 684
- Emma, 671
- Lena, 634
- Mia, 596
- Laura, 575
- Valentina, 544
- Hannah, 541
- Lea, 536
- Sophia, 522
- Sophie, 495
- Johanna, 488
- Leonie, 436
- Lina, 423
- Nora, 406
- Ella, 405
- Lara, 396
- Luisa, 388
- Elena, 379
- Magdalena, 334
- Hanna, 332
- Olivia, 323
- Amelie, 315
- Helena, 295
Boy Names
- Paul, 810 baby boys
- Jakob, 779
- Maximilian, 771
- Elias, 747
- David, 711
- Felix, 697
- Leon, 663
- Tobias, 647
- Jonas, 637
- Noah, 616
- Lukas, 609
- Alexander, 555
- Moritz, 513
- Leo, 508
- Julian, 483
- Simon, 460
- Matteo, 456
- Fabian, 441
- Valentin, 429
- Raphael, 419
- Emil, 401
- Luca, 400
- Samuel, 398
- Anton, 376
- Florian, 375
Here are Austria’s 2020 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.
Sources: First names of newborns – Statistics Austria, Atlas der Vornamen – Statistics Austria, Demographic characterstics of newborns – Statistics Austria
This is the least trendy current list I’ve seen. I guess Austrians don’t go in for fashion much and mostly stick to reliable saints’ names.
I think it has a lot to do with the country’s baby name laws/guidelines, which seem fairly restrictive.
The Austrian newspaper Kurier ran an article about the types of names that are off-limits in Austria a few months ago. Here’s a bit of it (translated into English, thanks to Google):