Last year, the European country of Germany welcomed 677,100 babies.
What were the most popular names among these babies?
Germany doesn’t release official baby name rankings, so we don’t know for sure. But two unofficial sets of 2024 rankings — one from the Society for the German Language (GfdS), the other from name researcher Knud Bielefeld — agree (again) that Germany’s top boy name was Noah.
(The rankings by the GfdS account for over 91% of the first names bestowed in Germany in 2024, while the rankings by Bielefeld account for about 36% of the babies born in Germany in 2024. Both sets of rankings combine different spellings of the same name.)
Here are Germany’s top girl names, according to both sources:
| Girl names (GfdS) | Girl names (Bielefeld) | |
| 1 | Sophia/Sofia | Emilia |
| 2 | Emilia | Sophia |
| 3 | Emma | Emma |
| 4 | Mia | Hannah |
| 5 | Lina | Mia |
| 6 | Hannah/Hanna | Lina |
| 7 | Ella | Ella |
| 8 | Mila | Lia |
| 9 | Klara/Clara | Leni |
| 10 | Lia/Liah | Mila |
And here are Germany’s top boy names:
| Boy names (GfdS) | Boy names (Bielefeld) | |
| 1 | Noah | Noah |
| 2 | Matt(h)eo/Mat(h)eo | Matteo |
| 3 | Leon | Elias |
| 4 | Luca/Luka | Luca |
| 5 | Paul | Leon |
| 6 | Henry/Henri | Theo |
| 7 | Theo | Finn |
| 8 | Emil | Paul |
| 9 | Elias | Emil |
| 10 | Louis/Luis | Henry |
Interestingly, the name Liam dropped off both top-10 lists last year. On the GfdS’s list it was replaced by Theo, and on Bielefeld’s list it was replaced by Henry.
Sources:
- Die beliebtesten Vornamen 2024 – GfdS
- Die beliebtesten Vornamen des Jahres 2024 – beliebte-Vornamen.de
- Births – German Federal Statistical Office
Image: Adapted from Flag of Germany (public domain)
