I study Russian so I am in interested in Russian names. I didn’t find any links so I will write down the Top 10 for 2013:
Girls:
[name_f]Sofia[/name_f]
[name_f]Maria[/name_f]
[name_f]Anastasia[/name_f]
[name_f]Darya[/name_f]
[name_f]Anna[/name_f]
[name_f]Elizaveta[/name_f]
Viktoriya
[name_f]Polina[/name_f]
[name_f]Varvara[/name_f]
[name_f]Ekaterina[/name_f]
Boys:
Artyom
[name_m]Aleksandr[/name_m]
Masksim
[name_m]Ivan[/name_m]
[name_m]Mikhail[/name_m]
[name_u]Danila[/name_u]
[name_m]Dmitri[/name_m]
[name_m]Andrei[/name_m]
[name_m]Kirill[/name_m]
[name_u]Nikita[/name_u]
I have been to [name_f]Russia[/name_f] a few times and I have noticed that (sit down please, unusual name lovers) they rarely use names outside top 10. I have meet or heard of like 10 Anastasias(#3) but no Mirolslavas(#44); a lot of Saschas(#2) but no Romans(#16). And there is usually a one proper spelling for a name so just imagine how many children bear the same exact name.
Germany doesn’t have an official one but the people running www.beliebte-vornamen.de put much time and effort into creating a Top 500 for the whole country and a Top 10 for the Bundesländer every year. It seems pretty accurate.
I find the same. Half of the Russian guys I’ve known (took Russian studies and spent a summer in St Petersburg), were named [name_m]Sergei[/name_m]. The girls were mostly [name_f]Anna[/name_f] or [name_f]Elena[/name_f], and I knew a few Svetlanas. I never met anyone from [name_f]Russia[/name_f] with a really unique name, like one of those ones you read in old novels.
The Norwegian lists only have top 40, but the English version of the site only has lists of all the names given to three or more in a year, and they’re sorted alphabetically, so it’s not very helpful at all.
Here’s a link to the girls top 40 for 2013 –> link
Boys top 40 for 2013 –> link
It standard procedure to combine spellings to make the top 40 lists We’re a pretty small country, so the top names are only given to just over 400 babies XD
Here’s a link to the main site for name statistics in Norwegian –>link
The links under “Tilleggsinformasjon” (additional information) are the ones of interest. You can also search names individually and get numbers and graphs in the “navnesøk” a little higher up
Translations of the links under “Tilleggsinformasjon”:
All girls names (alphabetical)
All boys names (alphabetical)
Most used girls names 2013 (combined spellings)
Most used boys names 2013 (combined spellings)
Winners and losers
100 most used names for women, entire population (at the bottom there’s a link ([name_m]Meir[/name_m]?) to the continuation of this list, down to names currently worn by 200 people or more)
100 most used names for men, entire population (at the bottom there’s a link ([name_m]Meir[/name_m]?) to the continuation of this list, down to names currently worn by 200 people or more)
10 most used girls names, 1880-2013
10 most used boys names, 1880-2013
100 most common surnames
County top 20 for 2013 (menn is men (boys) and kvinner is women (girls))
Top 50 for ten-year periods
Common girls names with graphs
Common boys names with graphs
30 names with the highest average age (as of [name_u]January[/name_u] 1st 2014)
30 names with the lowest average age (as of [name_u]January[/name_u] 1st 2014)
These are awesome resources guys. Some of which I was familiar with (i.e.: behindthename.com -> it’s practically my second home) others like Norwegian stats I never really bothered to look for before. Particularly psyched for the Spanish stats site! ([name_f]My[/name_f] hubby is a complete Spanglophile).
I’m going to keep the thread open because I think this is a cool place for everyone to share. I’d love to hear about other stats places berries like looking! THANKS EVERYONE!!!
I think [name_f]Elena[/name_f], [name_f]Svetlana[/name_f] and [name_f]Tatiana[/name_f] were really popular in the 70-s - it seemed to like an every woman around 35-50 had one of these names. And for younger women, [name_f]Anastasia[/name_f], [name_f]Aleksandra[/name_f] and [name_f]Maria[/name_f]. For the men, mostly [name_m]Aleksandr[/name_m], [name_m]Sergei[/name_m] and [name_m]Ivan[/name_m]. I don’t understand why don’t they revive some really beautiful old names like [name_m]Rodion[/name_m], Georgiy, Akilina, Anfisa.
I’m going to be stealing several of these links, as well, haha! The ones I’ve used in the past have been babynamesfacts (not as comprehensive, but it has dozens of countries! It usually lists anywhere from a top 5 to a top 100, depending on the country) and wikipedia has a page that updates yearly the top 10 for each country. If you’re interested in some of the lesser-known nationalities out there.