How popular is the baby name Matteo in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Matteo.
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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
Valentina
Emma
Ella
Boy names
Matteo
Noah
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:
In 2023, the top names (overall) in Malta were Emma and Matteo.
In 2023, the Southern European country of Italy welcomed 379,890 babies — 184,514 girls and 195,376 boys.
What were the most popular names among these babies? Sofia and Leonardo, yet again.
Here are Italy’s top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names of 2023:
Girl names
Sofia, 4,971 baby girls
Aurora, 4,648
Ginevra, 4,274
Vittoria, 4,194
Giulia, 3,732
Beatrice, 3,425 – pronounced beh-a-TREE-cheh
Ludovica, 3,157
Alice, 3,014 – pronounced a-LEE-cheh
Emma, 2,529
Matilde, 2,465
Anna, 2,128
Camilla, 2,091
Bianca, 1,992
Azzurra, 1,922
Chiara, 1,914 – pronounced KYAH-rah
Nicole, 1,792
Giorgia, 1,780
Isabel, 1,667
Greta, 1,635
Noemi, 1,439
Martina, 1,392
Arianna, 1,389
Gaia, 1,370
Sara, 1,368
Rebecca, 1,328
Viola, 1,325
Elena, 1,270
Ambra, 1,257
Chloe, 1,196 (tie)
Diana, 1,196 (tie)
Adele, 1,194
Mia, 1,192
Margherita, 1,095
Sole, 1,088 – pronounced SOH-leh
Francesca, 1,082
Cecilia, 1,060
Gioia, 1,018
Emily, 1,017
Marta, 964
Elisa, 953
Nina, 929
Lavinia, 912
Anita, 875
Amelia, 870
Eleonora, 853
Carlotta, 833
Maria, 803
Celeste, 788
Eva, 751
Giada, 735
Boy names
Leonardo, 7,096 baby boys
Edoardo, 5,603
Tommaso, 4,687
Francesco, 4,534
Alessandro, 4,383
Mattia, 4,349
Lorenzo, 4,006
Gabriele, 3,954
Riccardo, 3,600
Andrea, 3,333
Diego, 2,722
Giuseppe, 2,661
Matteo, 2,648
Enea, 2,564
Nicolò, 2,444
Antonio, 2,424
Federico, 2,313
Giovanni, 2,093
Filippo, 2,046
Samuele, 2,041
Pietro, 1,993
Giulio, 1,749
Gioele, 1,641 – pronounced jo-EH-leh
Davide, 1,597
Michele, 1,590
Christian, 1,541
Elia, 1,522
Gabriel, 1,497
Noah, 1,386
Marco, 1,353
Salvatore, 1,324
Liam, 1,236
Luca, 1,230
Vincenzo, 1,211
Thomas, 1,146
Emanuele, 1,100
Alessio, 1,056
Nathan, 1,007
Giorgio, 1,006
Samuel, 1,005
Jacopo, 1,002
Giacomo, 1,000
Ettore, 970
Raffael, 900
Daniele, 899
Simone, 892
Luigi, 886
Damiano, 830
Domenico, 818
Santiago, 798
The girls’ top 100 included Anastasia (57th), Sveva (75th), Mariasole (83rd), and Letizia (97th).
The boys’ top 100 included Ludovico (56th), Niccolò (66th), Brando (73rd), and Ciro (94th).
The girl name Azzurra (which is associated with Italy’s national soccer team gli Azzurri, “the Blues”) ranked 20th in both 2022 and 2021 before jumping to 12th place last year.
Speaking of soccer…I recently learned that Italian soccer star Francesco Totti (who played for AS Roma from 1993 to 2017) influenced baby names in Italy via the names of his three children:
The usage of Cristian rose after his son Cristian was born in November of 2005:
2006: 3,028 boys named Cristian (rank: 25th)
2005: 1,619 boys named Cristian (rank: 39th)
2004: 1,616 boys named Cristian (rank: 38th)
The usage of Chanel rose after his daughter Chanel was born in May of 2007:
2008: 158 girls named Chanel (rank: 189th)
2007: 63 girls named Chanel (rank: 314th)
2006: fewer than five girls named Chanel
The usage of Isabel rose after his daughter Isabel was born in March of 2016:
Last year, the Central European country of Germany welcomed 692,989 babies.
What were the most popular names among these babies?
We don’t know for sure, because Germany doesn’t release official baby name rankings. But two unofficial sets of rankings — one from the Society for the German Language (GfdS), the other from name researcher Knud Bielefeld — agree that Germany’s top boy name of 2023 was Noah.
(The rankings by the GfdS account for over 90% of the first names bestowed in Germany in 2023, while the rankings by Bielefeld account for about 40% of the babies born in Germany in 2023. 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)
1
Sophia/Sofia
Emilia
2
Emilia
Emma
3
Emma
Sophia
4
Mia
Hannah
5
Hannah/Hanna
Mia
6
Mila
Ella
7
Lina
Mila
8
Ella
Lina
9
Klara/Clara
Lia
10
Lia/Liah
Leni
And here are Germany’s top boy names, according to both sources:
Some possible influences/associations for a few of the above:
Filianore is a character in the video game Dark Souls III (2016) — specifically, in the downloadable content pack Dark Souls III: The Ringed City (2017).
St. Frowin of Engelberg was a 12th-century Swiss German abbot.
Itgelt is likely based on the Mongolian word itgel, meaning “faith, belief.”
Kordian is the main character of the Polish drama Kordian (1834) by Juliusz Slowacki.
Lysithea refers to several figures in Greek mythology, as well as to a character in the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019).
Metatron is an archangel mentioned in Jewish folklore.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the president of Ukraine.
St. Willibald was an 8th-century Englishman who became a bishop in Bavaria.
Finally, here’s a link to Austria’s 2022 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.
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