According to data released by Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB) in mid-January, the most popular baby names in the Netherlands in 2016 were Anna and Daan.
Here are the Netherlands’ top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2016:
Girl Names
1. Anna, 665 baby girls
2. Emma, 664 (tie)
2. Tess, 664 (tie)
4. Sophie, 644
5. Julia, 639
6. Zoë, 558
7. Evi, 557
8. Mila, 549
9. Sara, 542
10. Eva, 526
Boy Names
1. Daan, 681 baby boys
2. Noah, 679
3. Sem, 663
4. Lucas, 651
5. Jesse, 645
6. Finn, 640
7. Milan, 630
8. Max, 617
9. Levi, 597
10. Luuk, 595
On the girls’ list, Anna replaced Emma as the #1 name and Evi replaced Lotte in the top 10.
And on the boys’ list? All kinds of drama! Liam, which rose very quickly over the last few years to reach the top spot in 2015, not only lost that top spot to Daan, but dropped out of the top 10 entirely (!), replaced by Max. Liam now ranks unlucky 13th.
And what about unique names in the Netherlands? Here are a whole bunch, each used just once last year:
| Unique Girl Names | Unique Boy Names |
|---|---|
| Aimée-Amélie Alien Alouette Annephine Anthillia Aprilmoon Aunorin Ayudissa Bardot Bellefien Berfu Berilinci Bixx Blue-Ivy Cacharell Carovienne Cephei Cleodie Coco-Chloè Comfort Cortana Daxana Daylite Dimphey Djoody Dorka Ecrin Ans Egberdina El’genneallèe Eliflina Emily-Vespii Fairlychiona Farangis Faten Faybe Floore Foxx Frozan Gigi-Ice Gilviëntelly Gynniva Hillegonda Indivancely Ismini Jochempje Joomony Kicky Kricheliënne Lammerdina Lemon Lilly-Phylou Marryth Medellín Medusa Meritxell Nawprisca Ot Peggy-Sue Pidoux Pippilotta Pluk Ponyo Quby Quvenshané Raidiënsheanix Riva-Beaugeane Ro-Quennety Rover Safrinza Sensabelle Seven Sharvienshelly Shomookh Similiza Ska Smadar Spogmay Stin-cay Swendelyn Sybrecht Tanzilla Tippie-Tipper Tulp Umm Utopia Valexiane Vellizar Vilouella Wesseldina Xee’D Yesmae Yf Ypie Yucki Zeltia Zwanny | Aizeyosabor Alain-Rainièr Alaith Alpcan Amazing Andrianiaina Apache Avestan Bentivolio Boef (“crook”) Bonifacius Bowdy C-cayden Casey-Chase Chyrome Cimarrón Cornelis-Wilhelmus Criff D’Har-Chenoo Daex Dandy Day-sravencio Depp Diablo Digentley Divinepraise Djesco Dubbele Earlysean Exegese Ferdixon Fince Floki G-Wendley Gantulga Ghevently Ginuwine Givenchy Guevara Guswently Haliltalha Heavenly-ion Hunk Iody Jaap-Joost Jacquill Jill-Qiano Jinx Kainoa Kiff King-Maldive Laiphanara Largo Marcus-Aurelius Mcnelly Mees-Senn Motomichi Mowgli Mylox Myway Niamh Ntsinzi Oovy Phat Pit Poppy Pux Q’ZHN Quintyliano Rafflow Ridge Rowinio S’Lienio Scato Sergiovanni Sicco Solve Splinther Stork Sunnery T’cxzayneau Tamonry Taverdu Thaividley Trelawny Typhoon Vishnu Wagdy Wart Xuze Ymt Yucca Zbigniew Zhyphienyoh Zjurvendell Zweder |
At first I thought Sergiovanni might be an epic mash-up of Sergio and Giovanni, but then I found out that it’s just an Italian surname — Giovanni prefixed by ser, an occupational word for a notary.
Sources: Kindernamen – SVB, Daan and Anna top the list of most popular Dutch baby names – DutchNewsn.nl
Image: Adapted from Flag of the Netherlands (public domain)
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