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Popularity of the baby name Daniel


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Popular baby names in Estonia, 2024 & 2023

Flag of Estonia
Flag of Estonia

Last year, the Baltic state of Estonia (which shares land borders with Latvia and Russia) welcomed 9,690 babies — 4,757 girls and 4,933 boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Sofia and Mark.

Here are the county’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2024:

Girl names, 2024

  1. Sofia, 79 baby girls
  2. Mia, 62
  3. Emilia, 54 (tie)
  4. Olivia, 54 (tie)
  5. Saara, 49
  6. Emma, 46
  7. Eva, 45
  8. Arabella, 43 (tie)
  9. Nora, 43 (tie)
  10. Lenna, 37

Boy names, 2024

  1. Mark, 75 baby boys
  2. Hugo, 57 (tie)
  3. Oliver, 57 (tie)
  4. Sebastian, 51
  5. Robin, 46
  6. Aron, 44
  7. Leon, 42
  8. Oskar, 40
  9. David, 39
  10. Lukas, 35

The news release noted that Aaron is nearly as popular as Aron (#6), and that, if both spellings of the name had been counted together, Aron/Aaron “would have been the most popular boy’s name for the past seven years.”

It also mentioned that Nora’s “success story began with a sharp increase in popularity in 2017.” I wish it had revealed why Nora became trendy all of a sudden in 2017, though. (Does anyone out there have a theory?)

One year earlier, Estonia welcomed a total of 10,949 babies — 5,386 girls and 5,563 boys. Here are the country’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2023:

Girl names, 2023

  1. Sofia, 112 baby girls
  2. Mia, 58
  3. Olivia, 54
  4. Emily, 52
  5. Emma, 51 (3-way tie)
  6. Eva, 51 (3-way tie)
  7. Lenna, 51 (3-way tie)
  8. Emilia, 50
  9. Amelia, 49
  10. Saara, 43

Boy names, 2023

  1. Mark, 90 baby boys
  2. Hugo, 62
  3. Miron, 54 (tie)
  4. Robin, 54 (tie)
  5. Oliver, 53
  6. Rasmus, 50
  7. Sebastian, 49
  8. David, 45
  9. Jasper, 44
  10. Daniel, 43

In 2022, the top names in Estonia were also Sofia and Mark. It 2021, they were Mia and Robin.

Sources (all from Eesti Statistika):

Image: Adapted from Flag of Estonia (public domain)

Popular baby names in Canada, 2024

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Last year, our neighbor to the north welcomed 365,737 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Olivia and Noah, for the fourth year in a row.

Here are Canada’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2024:

Girl names

  1. Olivia, 1,639 baby girls
  2. Charlotte, 1,528
  3. Emma, 1,358
  4. Amelia, 1,123
  5. Sophia, 1,086
  6. Sofia, 921
  7. Mia, 905
  8. Chloe, 868
  9. Lily, 794
  10. Ava, 782
  11. Mila, 773
  12. Alice, 756
  13. Isla, 746
  14. Nora, 724
  15. Evelyn, 688
  16. Maya, 680
  17. Violet, 677
  18. Ellie, 676
  19. Sophie, 671
  20. Clara, 646
  21. Zoe, 620
  22. Aria, 610
  23. Elizabeth, 607
  24. Isabella, 601
  25. Abigail, 597
  26. Ella, 586
  27. Hazel, 573
  28. Florence, 569
  29. Hannah, 562
  30. Charlie, 559
  31. Eleanor, 550
  32. Eva, 549
  33. Ivy, 539
  34. Aurora, 538
  35. Harper, 522
  36. Emily, 521
  37. Luna, 508
  38. Rose, 503
  39. Victoria, 494
  40. Emilia, 469
  41. Scarlett, 465
  42. Grace, 461
  43. Eliana, 452
  44. Ayla, 442
  45. Georgia, 435
  46. Maeve, 432
  47. Julia, 431
  48. Elena, 427
  49. Penelope, 422
  50. Layla, 419

Boy names

  1. Noah, 2,115 baby boys
  2. Liam, 1,694
  3. Theodore, 1,429
  4. Leo, 1,410
  5. William, 1,367
  6. Oliver, 1,244
  7. Lucas, 1,183
  8. James, 1,131
  9. Benjamin, 1,090
  10. Thomas, 1,061
  11. Jack, 1,039
  12. Henry, 1,019
  13. Nathan, 991
  14. Adam, 962
  15. Ethan, 954
  16. Levi, 909
  17. Theo, 896
  18. Arthur, 883
  19. Jacob, 875
  20. Logan, 829
  21. Luca, 815
  22. Owen, 803
  23. Gabriel, 749
  24. Samuel, 723
  25. Jackson, 721
  26. Muhammad, 716
  27. Hudson, 707
  28. Daniel, 683
  29. Felix, 660
  30. Charles, 653
  31. Louis, 639
  32. Maverick, 626
  33. Elijah, 618
  34. Nolan, 586
  35. Caleb, 579
  36. Isaac, 573
  37. Alexander, 559
  38. Miles, 547
  39. Luke, 540
  40. Wesley, 534
  41. Bennett, 528
  42. Wyatt, 527
  43. Jayden, 520
  44. Mason, 511
  45. Ryan, 502
  46. David, 499
  47. Asher, 490
  48. Ezra, 489
  49. Austin, 483
  50. Beau, 475

Among Canada’s fastest-rising baby names were the girl names Lainey, Charlotte, and Eliana and the boy names Arjan, Zorawar, and Samuel.

And what about the names at the other end of the spectrum? Here’s a selection of the baby names that were given to just 5 babies each in Canada last year:

Rare girl namesRare boy names
Anica, Boshra, Celestina, Daneen, Elilta, Floraly, Georgette, Hazelyn, Iriza, Juana, Kateri, Laylin, Miela, Navika, Ovee, Pessy, Quynh, Ramneek, Sedona, Tarini, Urwah, Vaya, Winsley, Yuvika, ZuhaAlazar, Birpartap, Clint, Drayce, Ender, Famien, Gaspar, Haoyu, Iktaj, Jove, Kipling, Ludwig, Modibo, North, Oleg, Pinchas, Qudus, Rapha, Savio, Tylan, Udham, Vidit, Wilbert, Yiheng, Zeeshan

Finally, here are Canada’s 2023 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.

Sources: First names at birth by sex at birth, selected indicators (Number) – Statistics Canada, Canada’s most popular baby names in 2024 (Sept. 2025)

Image: Adapted from Flag of Canada (public domain)

Popular baby names in the Dominican Republic, 2023

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Flag of the Dominican Republic

Two years ago, the Dominican Republic welcomed over 156,000 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Isabella and Adriel.

Here are DR’s top 15 girl names and top 15 boy names of 2023:

Girl names

  1. Isabella, 482 baby girls
  2. Abigaíl, 478
  3. Alaia, 410
  4. Valentina, 388
  5. Esther, 370
  6. Elianny, 346
  7. Ashley, 316
  8. Charlotte, 312
  9. Camila, 308
  10. Zoe, 272
  11. Génesis, 260
  12. Emma, 258
  13. Victoria, 248
  14. Daniela, 244
  15. Esmeralda, 240

Boy names

  1. Adriel, 334 baby boys
  2. Emmanuel, 290
  3. Sebastián, 288
  4. Alexander, 276
  5. Liam, 262
  6. Gael, 252
  7. Daniel, 249
  8. Isaac, 246
  9. Ismael, 245
  10. Samuel, 241
  11. David, 232
  12. Jayden, 230
  13. Dariel, 229
  14. Aarón, 224
  15. Thiago, 221

A year earlier, in 2022, the top names were Abigaíl and Sebastián.

Sources:

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

What popularized Marlo as a girl name in the 1960s?

The character Ann Marie (played by Marlo Thomas) from the TV series "That Girl" (1966-1971)
Marlo Thomas in “That Girl“

In the mid-1960s, the unisex name Marlo saw a sudden surge in usage as a girl name:

Girls named MarloBoys named Marlo
1968545 [rank: 396th]28
1967353 [rank: 505th]28
196610127
19651625
19642220

The name went on to feature in the girls’ top 1,000 for more than a decade, from 1967 to 1977. (It also popped into the boys’ top 1,000 a few times during the ’70s, interestingly.)

What was drawing attention to the name Marlo around that time?

Actress Marlo Thomas, star of the sitcom That Girl, which began airing on television in September of 1966.

Marlo played Ann Marie, an aspiring actress living in New York City. (“Marie” was her surname.) Ann was a young unmarried woman living on her own terms — something rarely seen on TV in those days. As Marlo recently said,

All the girls and moms at home wanted to be That Girl: [to] have her own apartment, have fabulous clothes, be getting a job, have a boyfriend, [be] living away from her parents. It was like every girl’s dream.

The compound name Annmarie also saw its highest-ever usage during the five seasons That Girl was on the air.

Marlo Thomas was born Margaret Julia Jacobs in 1937. Her father was entertainer (and St. Jude founder) Danny Thomas, whose legal name was Amos Jacobs — an anglicized form of his Lebanese birth name, Muzyad Yakhoob. She was named after Danny’s mother (Margaret) and aunt (Julia).

How did she come to be called “Marlo”? Here’s how Danny explained it:

So we began to call the infant Margaret, then “Margo,” which we thought would be easier for her to say as she began to speak. It wasn’t easier. The closest she could come to Margo was “Marlo,” as in “Me Marlo.” And that’s how another soon-to-be-well-known stage name was created.

(His own stage name had been created from the names of his youngest brother Daniel and his eldest brother Thomas.)

What are your thoughts on the name Marlo?

Sources:

Image: Screenshot of That Girl