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Popular baby names in Finland, 2024

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Flag of Finland

Last year, the Nordic country of Finland welcomed 43,720 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies?

Well, it depends — Finland publishes three sets of baby name rankings: names used by Finnish speakers (84.1% of the population), names used by Swedish speakers (5.1%), and names used by speakers of any other language (such as Russian, Arabic, or Sami).

Finnish speakers

The most popular baby names among Finnish-speakers in Finland last year were Olivia and Oliver.

Here are the top 50 girl names and top 50 boy names:

Girl names (Finnish speakers)

  1. Olivia, 249 baby girls
  2. Aino, 231
  3. Linnea, 230
  4. Sofia, 227
  5. Isla, 219 (tie)
  6. Ellen, 219 (tie)
  7. Lilja, 218
  8. Eevi, 204
  9. Aava, 202 (tie)
  10. Helmi, 202 (tie)
  11. Viola, 193
  12. Hilla, 191
  13. Aada, 185
  14. Venla, 182
  15. Ella, 167
  16. Emma, 159
  17. Elli, 156
  18. Pihla, 151
  19. Emilia, 138
  20. Seela, 137
  21. Enni, 132
  22. Kerttu, 130
  23. Livia, 129
  24. Matilda, 128
  25. Alma, 121
  26. Elsi, 119
  27. Aurora, 116
  28. Hilda, 115 (tie)
  29. Elsa, 115 (tie)
  30. Minea, 114
  31. Ilona, 112
  32. Hilma, 111
  33. Frida, 110
  34. Alva, 105
  35. Mette, 102
  36. Amanda, 100 (tie)
  37. Selma, 100 (tie)
  38. Alisa, 99
  39. Vivian, 98
  40. Bea, 95
  41. Oona, 92
  42. Lumi, 90
  43. Nella, 88 (tie)
  44. Amelia, 88 (tie)
  45. Vilma, 86 (3-way tie)
  46. Alina, 86 (3-way tie)
  47. Ronja, 86 (3-way tie)
  48. Luna, 85
  49. Elea, 83 (tie)
  50. Lotta, 83 (tie)

Boy names (Finnish speakers)

  1. Oliver, 337 baby boys
  2. Eino, 303
  3. Väinö, 292
  4. Leo, 285
  5. Elias, 277
  6. Onni, 259
  7. Toivo, 225
  8. Oiva, 219
  9. Emil, 209 (tie)
  10. Vilho, 209 (tie)
  11. Hugo, 203 (tie)
  12. Aatos, 203 (tie) – means “thought” in Finnish
  13. Eeli, 202
  14. Leevi, 190
  15. Eemil, 185
  16. Noel, 184
  17. Alvar, 176
  18. Nooa, 173
  19. Aarni, 142
  20. Daniel, 139
  21. Edvin, 138
  22. Otso, 133 – means “bear” in Finnish
  23. Lenni, 131
  24. Joel, 130
  25. Leon, 129
  26. Milo, 128 (tie)
  27. Luka, 128 (tie)
  28. Viljami, 126
  29. Anton, 125
  30. Aaron, 122 (4-way tie)
  31. Max, 122 (4-way tie)
  32. Lukas, 122 (4-way tie)
  33. Eemi, 122 (4-way tie)
  34. Eelis, 120
  35. Mikael, 118
  36. Julius, 116
  37. Kasper, 112
  38. Samuel, 111
  39. Urho, 109 (3-way tie)
  40. Aapo, 109 (3-way tie)
  41. Eetu, 109 (3-way tie)
  42. Matias, 108
  43. Jooa, 106
  44. Olavi, 105
  45. Niilo, 104 (tie)
  46. Luukas, 104 (tie)
  47. Eliel, 101
  48. Mauno, 100 (tie)
  49. Viljo, 100 (tie)
  50. Lucas, 99

Swedish speakers

The most popular baby names among Swedish-speakers in Finland last year were Olivia and Edvin.

Here are the top 5+ girl names and top 5 boy names:

Girl names (Swedish speakers)Boy names (Swedish speakers)
1. Olivia, 30
2. Saga, 28
3. Ellen, 26
4. Alva, 24
5. Ebba, 23 (tie)
6. Ines, 23 (tie)		1. Edvin, 33
2. Emil, 29
3. Oliver, 25
4. Felix, 24
5. Leon, 23

Other languages

The most popular baby names among the speakers of other languages in Finland last year were Sofia and Muhammad.

Here are the top 5 girl names and top 5 boy names:

Girl names (other languages)Boy names (other languages)
1. Sofia, 48
2. Emilia, 29
3. Olivia, 28
4. Emma, 23
5. Milana, 22		1. Muhammad, 48
2. Elias, 41
3. Daniel, 36
4. Mark, 35
5. Adam, 32

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

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Finland (public domain)

Popular baby names in Virginia, 2024

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Flag of Virginia

Last year, the Commonwealth of Virginia welcomed roughly 94,443 babies.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Charlotte and Liam, according to the Virginia Department of Health’s Office of Vital Records.

Here are Virginia’s top 15 girl names and top 15 boy names of 2024:

Girl names

  1. Charlotte
  2. Olivia
  3. Emma
  4. Sophia
  5. Amelia
  6. Isabella
  7. Mia
  8. Ava
  9. Eleanor
  10. Evelyn
  11. Harper
  12. Elizabeth
  13. Sofia
  14. Abigail
  15. Aurora

Boy names

  1. Liam
  2. Noah
  3. James
  4. Oliver
  5. William
  6. Henry
  7. Theodore
  8. Lucas
  9. Elijah
  10. John
  11. Levi
  12. Ethan
  13. Dylan
  14. Benjamin
  15. Michael

The state also revealed the top names within each of its four largest ethnic groups: White, Black, Hispanic and Asian. (According to the most recent CDC data, 53.1% of Virginia’s babies were born to non-Hispanic White mothers, 19.0% to Black mothers, 17.5% to Hispanic mothers, and 7.4% to Asian mothers.)

These were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s White babies:

Girl names, WhiteBoy names, White
1. Charlotte
2. Olivia
3. Eleanor
4. Amelia
5. Emma		1. James
2. William
3. Oliver
4. Henry
5. Theodore

These were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s Black babies:

Girl names, BlackBoy names, Black
1. Nova
2. Naomi
3. Ava
4. Brielle
5. Zuri		1. Noah
2. Amir
3. Josiah
4. Elijah
5. Ezra

These were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s Hispanic babies:

Girl names, HispanicBoy names, Hispanic
1. Mia
2. Isabella
3. Sofia
4. Genesis
5. Camila		1. Liam
2. Dylan
3. Matteo
4. Noah
5. Thiago

And these were the top 5 girl names and 5 boy names among Virginia’s Asian babies:

Girl names, AsianBoy names, Asian
1. Sophia
2. Emma
3. Olivia
4. Chloe
5. Eliana		1. Noah
2. Muhammad
3. Henry
4. Lucas
5. Ethan

Finally, here’s a link to Virginia’s 2023 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Virginia (public domain)

Top baby names in Malaysia, 2024

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Flag of Malaysia

The Southeast Asian country of Malaysia is home to about 34 million people, more than 60% of whom are Muslim.

So it’s not surprising that the boy names Muhammad and Abdul and the girl names Nur and Siti “continue to top Malaysia’s baby name charts,” according to the director-general of Malaysia’s National Registration Department. Popular picks such as these are “commonly followed by a second name,” he noted.

(Siti — the one non-Arabic name among the top four — is the Malay form of the Hindu name Sita, which means “furrow” in Sanskrit. About 6% of Malaysia’s residents are Hindu.)

The names Aisyah, Maryam, and Rayyan are also trendy in Malaysia right now, as is the practice of altering the spelling of traditional names, “with Amir now often spelled as Ameer and Zahra as Zara.”

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Malaysia (public domain)

Popular baby names in Scotland (UK), 2024

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Flag of the United Kingdom

Last year, the country of Scotland — which takes up the northern third of Great Britain — welcomed 45,779 babies.

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

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

Girl names

  1. Olivia, 266 baby girls
  2. Isla, 264
  3. Freya, 244
  4. Lily, 231
  5. Millie, 222
  6. Sophia, 214
  7. Amelia, 198 (tie)
  8. Emily, 198 (tie)
  9. Ella, 195
  10. Charlotte, 191
  11. Ava, 188 (tie)
  12. Bonnie, 188 (tie)
  13. Grace, 183
  14. Evie, 180 (tie)
  15. Ivy, 180 (tie)
  16. Rosie, 167
  17. Sophie, 164
  18. Maisie, 161
  19. Maya, 159 (tie)
  20. Orla, 159 (tie)
  21. Harper, 149
  22. Sofia, 147
  23. Aria, 142
  24. Poppy, 135
  25. Maeve, 129
  26. Mia, 126
  27. Daisy, 123
  28. Lucy, 113
  29. Willow, 106
  30. Mila, 105
  31. Elsie, 104 (tie)
  32. Hallie, 104 (tie)
  33. Esme, 102
  34. Ruby, 100
  35. Ellie, 99
  36. Zara, 98
  37. Lottie, 97
  38. Eilidh, 91 – pronounced EH-lee
  39. Ayla, 90 (tie)
  40. Chloe, 90 (tie)
  41. Layla, 89 (3-way tie)
  42. Sienna, 89 (3-way tie)
  43. Violet, 89 (3-way tie)
  44. Ada, 87
  45. Skye, 83
  46. Phoebe, 82
  47. Callie, 81
  48. Jessica, 80 (tie)
  49. Robyn, 80 (tie)
  50. Isabella, 79

Boy names

  1. Noah, 366 baby boys
  2. Muhammad, 293
  3. Rory, 275
  4. Theo, 270
  5. Leo, 260
  6. Luca, 255
  7. Jack, 247 (tie)
  8. Oliver, 247 (tie)
  9. Harris, 243
  10. Archie, 228
  11. Finlay, 220
  12. Alexander, 208 (tie)
  13. Jude, 208 (tie)
  14. James, 203
  15. Alfie, 196
  16. Brodie, 195
  17. Finn, 190
  18. Arlo, 177
  19. Charlie, 159
  20. Thomas, 154 (tie)
  21. Tommy, 154 (tie)
  22. Oscar, 151
  23. Lucas, 147
  24. Arthur, 145
  25. Freddie, 144 (tie)
  26. Mason, 144 (tie)
  27. Jacob, 141
  28. Lewis, 136
  29. Logan, 132 (tie)
  30. Max, 132 (tie)
  31. Harry, 124
  32. Albie, 123
  33. Cameron, 117
  34. Ollie, 116
  35. Myles, 111
  36. Callan, 108 (tie)
  37. Theodore, 108 (tie)
  38. Angus, 106 (tie)
  39. Reuben, 106 (tie)
  40. Harrison, 105
  41. Blake, 102
  42. Adam, 101 (tie)
  43. Caleb, 101 (tie)
  44. Sonny, 100
  45. Louie, 99
  46. Roman, 98
  47. Liam, 93
  48. George, 91
  49. Isaac, 90
  50. Luke, 89

Muhammad, which entered the boys’ top 100 in 2008, jumped from 11th to 2nd place.

And the bonny name Bonnie, which entered the girls’ top 100 in 2018, now sits just outside the top 10.

Last year’s fastest-rising girl names already in the top 100 were Violet, Arabella, Myla, and Chloe, while the fastest-rising girl names entering the top 100 for the first time were Eliza, Romy, and Nora.

The fastest-rising boy names already in the top 100 were Myles, Callan, Ruairidh, and Lochlan, while the fastest-rising boy name entering the top 100 for the first time was Reggie.

Una and Ernie, two of the top names in the Scottish archipelago of Orkney, were given to 19 baby girls and six baby boys (respectively) nation-wide.

Here’s a selection of the names that were given to just three babies each in Scotland last year:

Rare girl namesRare boy names
Aizal, Beira, Ceilidh, Davina, Este, Fleur, Greta, Hadley, Ines, Jemimah, Kassie, Lavinia, Merida, Nicola, Opal, Peach, Roxy, Safiyyah, Tully, Verity, Yuna, ZarishArgyll, Bruce, Cobi, Derek, Ernest, Frazer, Graham, Harbaaz, Innis, Justin, Korey, Lawrie, Malachi, Niven, Orran, Percy, Rui, Somhairle, Thorfinn, Uzair, Wilder, Zahir

Beira is a modern Scottish name for the Gaelic mythological figure Cailleach, and Innis is a Scottish Gaelic word meaning “small island, islet.”

(I can’t give you the usual sampling of Scotland’s single-use names because, as of 2024, the country has decided to stop releasing names given to fewer than three babies. The news release noted that “the exclusion of the names given to one or two babies is consistent with policies in England and Wales and Northern Ireland.”)

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

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of the United Kingdom (public domain)