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Popular baby names in Belgium, 2024

Flag of Belgium
Flag of Belgium

Last year, the European country of Belgium welcomed 108,150 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Olivia and Noah, yet again.

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

Girl names

  1. Olivia, 531 baby girls
  2. Emma, 455
  3. Louise, 432
  4. Lina, 354
  5. Sofia, 345
  6. Eva, 335
  7. Mila, 327
  8. Alice, 323
  9. Juliette, 305
  10. Mia, 298
  11. Anna, 289
  12. Nora, 284
  13. Inaya, 266
  14. Lucie, 258
  15. Elena, 257
  16. Jade, 251
  17. Julia, 243
  18. Alba, 242
  19. Ella, 239
  20. Nina, 228
  21. Luna, 225
  22. Noor, 221
  23. Victoria, 220
  24. Ellie, 219 (tie)
  25. Marie, 219 (tie)
  26. Giulia, 218
  27. Mona, 198
  28. Léa, 195
  29. Renée, 183
  30. Liv, 182
  31. Lou, 181
  32. Chloé, 179
  33. Billie, 174
  34. Livia, 173
  35. Nour, 172
  36. Jeanne, 170
  37. Amélie, 163
  38. Lily, 162
  39. Amira, 161
  40. Lena, 158
  41. Emilia, 157
  42. Rose, 156 (tie)
  43. Zoé, 156 (tie)
  44. Camille, 153
  45. Maryam, 149 (tie)
  46. Romy, 149 (tie)
  47. Alix, 148
  48. Aya, 145
  49. Ambre, 142 (tie)
  50. Lara, 142 (tie)

Boy names

  1. Noah, 582 baby boys
  2. Arthur, 559
  3. Jules, 478
  4. Louis, 476
  5. Liam, 461
  6. Adam, 439
  7. Gabriel, 413
  8. Victor, 340
  9. Lucas, 322
  10. Leon, 295
  11. Oscar, 287
  12. Mohamed, 263
  13. Matteo, 259
  14. Luca, 253
  15. Léon, 248
  16. Lewis, 244
  17. Finn, 227
  18. Rayan, 210
  19. Théo, 209
  20. Mathis, 207
  21. Raphaël, 203
  22. Elias, 201
  23. Hugo, 200
  24. Amir, 199 (tie)
  25. Otis, 199 (tie)
  26. Achille, 197
  27. Léo, 192
  28. Sacha, 187
  29. Marcel, 185
  30. Felix, 174 (tie)
  31. Theo, 174 (tie)
  32. Leo, 168
  33. Emile, 166
  34. Henri, 160 (3-way tie)
  35. Ibrahim, 160 (3-way tie)
  36. Lou, 160 (3-way tie)
  37. Eden, 159
  38. Emiel, 158
  39. Naël, 155
  40. Basile, 152
  41. Maël, 151
  42. César, 150 (3-way tie)
  43. Lio, 150 (3-way tie)
  44. Oliver, 150 (3-way tie)
  45. Charles, 149 (tie)
  46. Isaac, 149 (tie)
  47. David, 148 (4-way tie)
  48. Milo, 148 (4-way tie)
  49. Mohammed, 148 (4-way tie)
  50. Nathan, 148 (4-way tie)

And here’s a selection of names from the other end of the spectrum — names that were given to just 5 babies each in Belgium last year:

Rare girl namesRare boy names
Afia, Bitania, Cézan, Dima, Ecaterina, Femke, Gioïa, Hatice, Inês, Jinthe, Kiki, Lies, Maëlyne, Nine, Ombeline, Rho, Suus, Tenzin, Vanina, Yumi, ZelihaAkim, Brieuc, Camil, Deen, Edzio, Foss, Giacomo, Hektor, Ibe, Jimmy, Kenji, Lowenn, Mélyo, Nawfel, Orso, Roger, Stefano, Taïm, Vasile, Yoel, Zeger

Lies (pronounced LEES) is a Dutch diminutive of Elisabeth, Nine (pronounced NEE-nah) is a Frisian short form of Katherine, and Suus is a palindromic Dutch short form of Susanna.

Brieuc may be a reference to the French city of Saint-Brieuc, which was named after a 5th-century Welsh monk called Brioc.

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

Sources: First names for boys and girls – STATBEL, Births 5.0% lower in 2024 than the average for 2020-2023 – Statbel, Behind the Name

Image: Adapted from Flag of Belgium (public domain)

Baby names for coffee lovers (Namestorm #16)

cup of coffee

I’m posting on Sunday instead of Monday this week. Why? Because today (September 29) is International Coffee Day, and I thought it would be fun to celebrate by brainstorming for baby names for coffee lovers.

Here are some coffee-inspired names I’ve come up with so far…

Kaldi

Legend has it that an Ethiopian goatherd named Kaldi discovered the coffee plant during the 9th century. After watching his goats become lively after eating coffee berries, he tried the berries himself, then told some local monks about the plant. The story has inspired many coffee shop owners to name their establishments “Kaldi’s Coffee” and the like.

Clement

Another legend has it that, around the year 1600, Pope Clement VIII gave coffee his official papal approval. Coffee was new to Europe, and Catholic clerics wanted it banned because they associated it with Islam. But Clement tried it and liked it, and his thumbs-up made coffee acceptable (and, soon, very popular) in Europe.

Penny

Thousands of coffeehouses opened in England during the second half of the 17th century. During the 18th century, they came to be called Penny Universities because, for the one-penny price of cup of coffee, a person could learn a great deal from the many political, commercial and philosophical discussions going on inside. Like the Kaldi legend, this story has inspired many coffee shop owners to use the name “Penny University.”

Boston; Griffin

The U.S. would have been a tea-drinking nation if not for the Boston Tea Party, which made tea drinking unpatriotic. After that historic 1773 rebellion against the King George’s tea tax, Americans switched over to coffee and never looked back. The specific location of the Tea Party was Griffin’s Wharf (which no longer exists).

Gabriel

French naval officer Gabriel de Clieu transported (maybe smuggled?) a single coffee plant from Louis XIV’s royal garden to the French colony of Martinique in 1720. The trip across the Atlantic was arduous, but both he and the plant arrived intact. Fifty years later, Martinique boasted over 18 million coffee plants — all progeny of Gabriel’s original.

Francisco

Colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta of Brazil traveled to French Guiana in 1727, ostensibly to help settle a border dispute. He ended up obtaining coffee seedlings for Brazil (the real objective of his mission, likely) in a rather sneaky way: within a bouquet of flowers. Brazil went on to become the world’s largest coffee producer.

Johann; Elisabeth/Lieschen

In the 1730s, composer Johann Sebastian Bach wrote the “Coffee Cantata,” in which a young woman, Lieschen, argues with her father about her coffee addiction. She sings lines like “Coffee, I must have coffee” while he tries to force her to break her habit. Here’s the Coffee Cantata in English. The name Lieschen is based on Lies, pronounced LEES, a diminutive of Elisabeth (the German form of Elizabeth).

What other baby names for coffee lovers can you come up with?

Update, May 2017: How about Ariosa? It was America’s first national coffee brand.

P.S. If you liked this, you might also like the namestorm for chocolate…

Sources: Coffee @ Nationalgeographic.com, History of Coffee – National Coffee Association, History of Coffee – Wikipedia

Image: Adapted from A small cup of coffee by Julius Schorzman under CC BY-SA 2.0.