Popular baby names in Liechtenstein, 2024

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Flag of Liechtenstein

Last year, the tiny European country of Liechtenstein welcomed 341 babies — 166 girls and 175 boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Sophia for girls and Leon and Noah/Noa (tie) for boys.

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

Girl names

  1. Sophia, 5 baby girls
  2. Leyla and Livia, 4 each (tie)
  3. Alina, Chiara, Leonie, Lia, and Paula, 3 each (5-way tie)
  4. Ajla/Ayla, Amelie, Elisa, Emilia, Fiona, Freya, Hanna/Hannah, Ida, Ilenia, Laura, Lina, Lou, Luisa, Maya, Melina, Nelia, Noelia, Nora, Olivia, Romina, Timea, and Valea, 2 each (22-way tie)

Boy names

  1. Leon and Noah/Noa, 5 baby boys each (tie)
  2. Elias, Julian, Laurin, Leano, Levi, Linus, Lio, Lionel, Luca, Matteo/Matheo, Theo, and Valentin, 3 each (12-way tie)
  3. Alexander, Ben, Elia, Emil, Gino, Jonas, Kian, Lenny, Leyan, Lorenzo, Marlo, Nelio, Noe, Noel, and Vincent, 2 each (15-way tie)

The rest of the names were bestowed just once:

Unique girl names (94)Unique boy names (99)
Adriana, Alba, Alessia, Amara, Amaya, Amberly, Amelia, Amina, Amra, Anna, Asel, Asena, Aurelia, Aylin, Belinda, Carla, Celia, Charlotte, Chloé, Delia, Eflin, Elena, Elenor, Elina, Elisabeth, Ella, Elsa, Emily, Emma, Flavia, Frieda, Gabriella, Giada, Hale, Ivie, Jana, Julia, Juna, Kalea, Kate, Katharina, Klara, Kori, Lania, Larissa, Lea, Letizia, Lillian, Linn, Liuna, Liv, Lola, Lorine, Lua, Luna, Malea, Malia, Mara, Maria, Marie, Martina, Mayla, Melissa, Mia, Michaela, Mila, Milena, Morena, Naira, Nayla, Neea, Nilya, Noemi, Nuray, Peyang, Rital, Rosa, Ruby, Run, Samara, Sienna, Sophie, Sumaya, Sunniva, Thalia, Valentina, Valeria, Valérie, Viktoria, Viola, Vivienne, Yara, Yasmin, YunaAdni, Afonso, Albert, Amelio, Andrin, Anis, Anton, Aran, Aras, Arel, Aren, Arian, Arno, Arthur, Aurelio, Benjamin, Bernardo, Bryan, Charles, Ciro, Colin, Constantin, Daadir, Dani, Danial, David, Demir, Dijar, Ege, Eli, Elouan, Enzo, Erik, Erin, Fabian, Finn, Florian, Gabriel, Hayden, Henrik, Ilario, Ilyas, Jack, Jakob, Jayden, Johann, Jonathan, Jordan, Kenny, Konstantin, Leo, Leonardo, Leonidas, Leron, Levin, Levio, Liam, Lineo, Lino, Lou, Luan, Luciano, Mads, Magnus, Mailo, Maksim, Marco, Matej, Mats, Mattia, Matvii, Max, Maximilian, Miko, Naél, Near, Nevio, Nico, Nicolas, Paolo, Paul, Poyraz, Qingyang, Quentin, Raphael, Rayan, Rodrigo, Rui, Salvador, Samuel, Simon, Tino, Tobias, Valerio, Yaro, Yaroslav, Yuri, Yusuf, Zeyd

I didn’t post about Liechtenstein’s top baby names of 2023 or 2022, but here are Liechtenstein’s 2021 rankings.

Source: Neugeborenennamen – Liechtensteinische Landesverwaltung Statistikportal

Image: Adapted from Flag of Liechtenstein (public domain)

Popular baby names in the Philippines, 2023

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Flag of the Philippines

Two years ago, the archipelagic country of the Philippines welcomed 1,448,522 babies — 695,190 (48%) girls and 753,332 (52%) boys.

What were the most popular names among these babies? Althea and Nathaniel.

Here are the country’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2023:

Girl names

  1. Althea, 1,850 baby girls
  2. Angel, 1,363
  3. Zoey, 1,126
  4. Chloe, 1,042
  5. Nathalie, 1,040
  6. Sofia, 989 [tie]
  7. Zia, 989 [tie]
  8. Princess, 975
  9. Samantha, 971
  10. Ayesha, 939

Boy names

  1. Nathaniel, 1,948 baby boys
  2. Gabriel, 1,669
  3. Jacob, 1,649
  4. Ezekiel, 1,592
  5. Ethan, 1,425
  6. Nathan, 1,421
  7. Matthew, 1,383
  8. Liam, 1,351
  9. Jayden, 1,341
  10. Noah, 1,235

In the girls’ top 10, Zoey and Ayesha replaced Athena and Sophia.

In the boys’ top 10, Jayden replaced James.

The name Argus — which derives from the Ancient Greek word argos, meaning “shining, bright” — was one of the fastest-rising names of the year, skyrocketing in usage from 7 baby boys in 2022 to 247 baby boys in 2023.

What made it trendy all of a sudden?

Child entertainer Argus Aspiras on the TV series "It's Showtime" (2009-)
Argus Aspiras on “It’s Showtime“

Child star Argus Aspiras, who was regularly featured on a children’s segment of the popular Philippine TV variety show It’s Showtime during 2023.

The compound name Yllana Marie also saw a steep rise in usage — from a one baby girl in 2022 to 30 baby girls in 2023. This increase can be attributed to Filipino beauty queen Yllana Marie Aduana, who placed first runner-up at the Miss Earth pageant in 2023.

(Althea and Nathaniel were also the top names in the country one year earlier, in 2022.)

Sources: The Philippines’ Most Common Baby Names of 2023 – Philippine Statistics Authority (PDF), Registered Live Births in the Philippines, 2023 – Philippine Statistics Authority, Argus – Behind the Name, It’s Showtime (Philippine TV program) – Wikipedia

Images: Adapted from Flag of the Philippines (public domain); screenshot of Argus Aspiras on It’s Showtime (episode from Aug. 2023)

Top baby names in Germany, 2024

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Flag of Germany

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)

Top Hebrew baby names in Israel, 5785

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Flag of Israel

The country of Israel releases two sets of baby name rankings: one for the Gregorian year (e.g., 2024), the other for the Hebrew year.

I don’t usually post the Hebrew-year rankings, but I was intrigued by the latest set, which was released a couple of weeks before the end of 5785 (Oct. 2024 to Sep. 2025, roughly).

Below are Israel’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names — both overall and among Jewish residents specifically — for the Hebrew year 5785:

Girls names

Top girl names, all babiesTop girl names, Jewish babies
Avigail
Miriam
Libi
Tamar
Sara
Lia
Yael
Ella
Ayala
Noa		Avigail
Tamar
Libi
Yael
Sara
Ella
Noa
Lia
Ayala
Esther

Boy names

Top boy names, all babiesTop boy names, Jewish babies
Muhammad
Yosef
Adam
David
Lavie/Lavi
Ariel
Omar
Rafael
Uri
Yehuda		Lavie/Lavi
Ariel
David
Rafael
Uri
Yehuda
Eliya
Ari
Eitan
Micha’el

The news release suggested that Lavi, which means “lion” in Hebrew, became the most popular name for Jewish boys due to the influence of Israel’s Operation Am KeLavi (“a people like a lion”), which was launched against Iran in June of 2025. (The war lasted 12 days.)

Except…Lavi has been close to the top spot for several years now. It ranked #2 among Jewish boys in both 2023 and 2020, for instance. So did the headlines really push Lavi to #1, or would it have ended up there regardless?

Sources:

Image: Adapted from Flag of Israel (public domain)