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Popular baby names in Malta, 2024

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Flag of Malta

Last year, the Mediterranean island nation of Malta welcomed 4,107 babies — 2,031 girls and 2,076 boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Valentina and Matteo.

Here are Malta’s top 3 girl names and top 3 boy names of 2024:

Girl names

  1. Valentina
  2. Emma
  3. Ella

Boy names

  1. Matteo
  2. Noah
  3. Liam

And what about Maltese names specifically?

For the third year in a row, the top picks were the Maltese forms of Lucia and John: Lucija (pronounced loo-chee-ah) and Ganni (pronounced jah-nee). Here’s how they names are written in Maltese orthography:

Maltese names Lucija and Ganni

In 2023, the top names (overall) in Malta were Emma and Matteo.

Source: “Matteo and Valentina most popular names for newborns in 2024 Malta.” Times of Malta 20 Jan. 2025.

Image: Adapted from Flag of Malta (public domain)

Popular baby names in Malta, 2023

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Flag of Malta

Last year, the Mediterranean island nation of Malta welcomed 4,204 babies — 2,042 girls and 2,162 boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Emma and Matteo.

Here are Malta’s top 4 girl names and top 4 boy names of 2023:

Girl names

  1. Emma
  2. Valentina
  3. Julia
  4. Nina

Boy names

  1. Matteo
  2. Noah
  3. Luca
  4. Jack

And what about Maltese names specifically?

For the second year in a row, the top picks were Lucija (pronounced loo-chee-ah) and Ganni (pronounced jah-nee) — the Maltese forms of Lucia and John. Here’s how they’re written in Maltese orthography:

Maltese names Lucija and Ganni

(That diacritic mark is called an “overdot.”)

In 2022, the top names (overall) in Malta were Mia and Luca.

Source: “Ganni and Lucija remain the most popular Maltese baby names.” Times of Malta 17 Jan. 2024.

Image: Adapted from Flag of Malta (public domain)

Popular baby names in Malta, 2022

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Flag of Malta

The island nation of Malta is located in the Mediterranean Sea, between Italy and Libya.

Last year, Malta welcomed 3,978 babies — 1,962 girls and 2,016 boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Mia and Luca.

Here are Malta’s top 4 girl names and top 4 boy names of 2022:

Girl Names

  1. Mia
  2. Emma
  3. Nina
  4. Giulia

Boy Names

  1. Luca
  2. Liam
  3. Noah
  4. Matteo

And what were the two most popular Maltese names?

Here’s how they’re written in Maltese orthography, with the overdots:

Maltese names Lucija and Ganni

Lucija (pronounced loo-chee-ah), the equivalent of Lucia, was given to 13 baby girls. Ganni (pronounced jah-nee), the equivalent of John, was given to 22 baby boys

Finally, here are Malta’s 2021 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.

Source: “Most popular names in Malta in 2022 were Luca and Mia.” Malta Daily 11 Jan. 2023.

Image: Adapted from Flag of Malta (public domain)

Popular baby names in Malta, 2021

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Flag of Malta

According to the news site Malta Daily, the Mediterranean island nation of Malta welcomed 4,164 babies last year.

Malta’s top baby names of 2021 were…

Girls Names

  • Emma
  • Mia
  • Ella
  • Valentina
  • Emily

Boy Names

  • Matteo
  • Luca
  • Noah
  • Adam
  • Jake

My source wasn’t explicit about the rankings, so I’ve ordered them here the way they were ordered in the article. I’m guessing that Emma and Matteo were the top choices.

Malta’s government finally began registering Maltese names in late 2020, thanks to a software upgrade that included Maltese font, so the 2021 rankings are the first to take Maltese orthography into account. The four most popular Maltese names last year were…

Maltese names Guze, Ganni, Eliza, Lucija

(These are the Maltese equivalents of John, Joseph, Elizabeth, and Lucia.)

Back in 2018, the top two names in Malta were Emma and Noah.

Sources: What were the most popular names for Maltese babies in 2021?, Ganni becomes first baby named using Maltese fonts after IT system change

Image: Adapted from Flag of Malta (public domain)