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Popularity of the baby name Mateo


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Top baby names in Germany, 2024

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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)
1Sophia/SofiaEmilia
2EmiliaSophia
3EmmaEmma
4MiaHannah
5LinaMia
6Hannah/HannaLina
7EllaElla
8MilaLia
9Klara/ClaraLeni
10Lia/LiahMila

And here are Germany’s top boy names:

Boy names (GfdS)Boy names (Bielefeld)
1NoahNoah
2Matt(h)eo/Mat(h)eoMatteo
3LeonElias
4Luca/LukaLuca
5PaulLeon
6Henry/HenriTheo
7TheoFinn
8EmilPaul
9EliasEmil
10Louis/LuisHenry

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:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Germany (public domain)

Popular baby names in San Diego (California), 2023

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Two years ago, the California county of San Diego welcomed 35,713 babies — 17,289 girls and 18,424 boys.

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

Here are San Diego’s top 10+ girl names and top 10 boy names of 2023:

Girl names

  1. Emma, 199 baby girls
  2. Mia, 184
  3. Olivia, 170
  4. Camila, 151
  5. Sophia, 147
  6. Sofia, 144
  7. Isabella, 138
  8. Luna, 125
  9. Amelia, 124
  10. Charlotte, 95 (tie)
  11. Penelope, 95 (tie)

Boy names

  1. Noah, 224 baby boys
  2. Liam, 198
  3. Mateo, 195
  4. Sebastian, 165
  5. Oliver, 154
  6. Elijah, 134
  7. Luca, 127
  8. Julian, 124
  9. Benjamin, 122 (tie)
  10. Santiago, 122 (tie)

A year earlier, in 2022, the top names were Olivia and Mateo.

P.S. I’ve also posted 2023 rankings for the California county of Sonoma.

Source: Data on Children – SanDiegoCounty.gov

Image: Adapted from Flag of California (public domain)

Popular baby names in Mexico, 2022

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Back in 2022, the North American country of Mexico welcomed 1,891,388 babies.

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

Here are Mexico’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2022:

Girl names

  1. Sofia
  2. Regina
  3. Maria Jose
  4. Valentina
  5. Camila
  6. Maria Fernanda
  7. Isabella
  8. Ximena
  9. Victoria
  10. Romina

Boy names

  1. Santiago
  2. Mateo
  3. Sebastian
  4. Leonardo
  5. Matias
  6. Daniel
  7. Emiliano
  8. Miguel Angel
  9. Diego
  10. Alejandro

In the girls’ top 10, Isabella and Romina replaced Valeria and Renata.

In the boys’ top 10, Alejandro replaced Gael.

A year earlier, in 2021, Mexico’s top names were also Sofia and Santiago.

P.S. As of mid-2025, these top-ten lists for 2022 are Mexico’s most up-to-date baby name rankings. (If I come across a longer set of ’22 rankings in the future, I’ll come back and update this post.)

Sources: Natalidad – INEGI, Estadística De Nacimientos Registrados (Enr) 2022 – INEGI (PDF)

Image: Adapted from Flag of Mexico (public domain)

Popular baby names in Buenos Aires, 2024

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Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, is home to over 3.1 million people.

Last year, the most popular baby names in the city were Olivia and Mateo, according to data from the Buenos Aires Civil Registry.

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

Girl names

  1. Olivia, 544 baby girls
  2. Sofía, 420
  3. Emma, 400
  4. Emilia, 382
  5. Isabella, 322
  6. Catalina, 321
  7. Martina, 295
  8. Delfina, 281
  9. Mía, 262
  10. Valentina, 258

Boy names

  1. Mateo, 524 baby boys
  2. Felipe, 445
  3. Enzo, 426
  4. Bautista, 383
  5. Benjamín, 374
  6. Valentino, 307
  7. Bruno, 306
  8. Liam, 299
  9. Noah, 291
  10. Joaquín, 275

The city’s news release also mentioned several of the baby names that were bestowed fewer than 100 times each last year…

  • Girl names: Antonia, Cielo, Elena, Eva, Luz
  • Boy names: Amadeo, Beltrán, Franco, Nicolás

I’ve never posted rankings for Buenos Aires before, but here are the most recent rankings for Argentina (2023), if you’d like to compare this list to that one.

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Argentina (public domain)