Rising Girl Names - European Countries

Girl Names
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I came back with a post on the occasion! Since Eurovision just ended and the US popular names got announced. This research took me a lot of time but I like doing statistics lol.

Austria 🇦🇹

+19: Elisa
+13: Ida, Valerie
+12: Leni
+8: Rosalie

New entries to the popularity lists:
Flora, Livia

Belgium 🇧🇪

+80: Ayla
+57: Lize
+55: Millie
+51: Cézanne
+50: Assia, Maxine
+45: Alya
+43: Ambre
+40: Ada
+39: Mira
+38: Zoë
+33: Noa
+31: Tasnim
+30: Alina
+29: Lisa
+28: Hidaya
+26: Clémence
+25: Fien
+22: Féline, Victoire
+20: Anaïs
+18: Maryam
+16: Elisabeth
+15: Léna
+13: Alix, Leonie, Romy
+14: Louisa
+12: Stella
+11: Ellis, Nell
+10: Laura

New entries to the popularity lists:
Janne, Aliya, Tessa, Cleo, Colette, Gloria, Noé, Salomé, Sienna, Romée, Claire, Sophie, Amalia, Hafsa, Ana, Gabrielle, Lily-Rose

Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦

+21: Jasmina
+18: Klara, Nika
+16: Zehra
+15: Dalal, Dalia
+13: Halima
+11: Lajla
+8: Aylin, Sarah, Šejma

New entries to the popularity lists:
Ilda, Laura, Sumejja, Mona, Dunja, Lea, Amal, Alma, Ilhana

Croatia 🇭🇷

+8: Roza, Sofia

New entries to the popularity lists:
Aurora, Cvita, Doris

Denmark 🇩🇰

+15: Ida
+13: Hannah
+10: Luna, Saga

New entries to the popularity lists:
Vera, Elina

Finland 🇫🇮

+19: Oona
+12: Hilma

New entries to the popularity lists:
Bea, Vivian, Stella

Hungary 🇭🇺

+24: Bella
+20: Nara
+14: Linett
+12: Zejnep
+11: Elena
+8: Róza

New entries to the popularity lists:
Alina, Zora, Dalma

Italy 🇮🇹

+35: Dafne
+32: Sophie
+30: Sole (a modern word name in Italian meaning “sun”. It is gender neutral but currently leans feminine.)
+26: Chanel, Olimpia
+24: Dalila
+20: Evelyn
+16: Luna
+15: Carolina
+14: Alma, Diana
+12: Elettra
+11: Mariasole, Nina
+10: Ambra, Sharon

New entries to the popularity lists:
None lol

Lithuania 🇱🇹

New entries to the popularity lists:
Luka, Smiltė, Iglė, Barbora, Eva, Kotryna

Norway 🇳🇴

+23: Helene
+22: Luna
+20: Lotte
+14: Tomine
+13: Hedvig
+12: Emily
+11: Kaja, Signe
+10: Hannah, Mina, Sara
+9: Iben
+8: Ellinor, Live

New entries to the popularity lists:
Lykke, Ebba, Sarah, Synne, Isabella, Elvira, Martine

Poland 🇵🇱

+68: Sofiia
+61: Zlata
+58: Eva
+56: Polina
+53: Milana
+47: Kira, Melisa
+35: Alisa
+20: Sofia
+18: Jaśmina
+17: Viktoria
+15: Diana
+13: Wanda
+12: Alina, Olivia
+11: Ewelina

New entries to the popularity lists:
Mariia, Veronika, Arina, Emiliia, Viktoriia, Nikol, Varvara, Oleksandra, Solomiia, Yeva, Anastasiia, Angelina, Anastasia, Evelina, Kateryna, Emily, Myroslava, Lily, Yelyzaveta, Amina, Miia

Slovenia 🇸🇮

+41: Olivija
+33: Eli, Loti
+27: Kiara
+24: Aria
+19: Larisa
+13: Viktorija
+12: Nia
+10: Lena
+9: Ajda
+8: Alja, Aurora, Lia, Neja, Sia

New entries to the popularity lists:
Lora, Olivia, Rubi, Luna, Dora, Nikolina, Tina, Leja, Una, Mina

Spain 🇪🇸

+16: Mara
+12: Nahia
+11: Elia, Mar
+9: Aurora, Luna
+8: Iris, Olivia

New entries to the popularity lists:
Maia, Violeta, Camila, Elisa

Sweden 🇸🇪

+36: Ronja
+20: Nellie
+15: Tuva
+14: Isabelle, Alba
+12: Lea
+10: Lykke
+9: Ingrid
+8: Elsie, Esther, Leia

New entries to the popularity lists:
Rut, Leona, My, Alina, Felicia, Eira

Switzerland 🇨🇭

+22: Alma
+21: Ellie
+19: Helena
+18: Ava
+16: Liana, Noelia
+15: Diana
+14: Luna
+13: Ava, Hana
+11: Lynn
+10: Charlotte, Malea
+8: Nora

New entries to the popularity lists:
Anouk, Amira, Malin, Alba, Leyla, Dua, Iris, Jael, Leni, Arya, Kiara, Yael

The names That Rise for Most (1 spot, the highest “rising spots” spot, per country):

Elisa, Ayla, Jasmine, Sofia / Roza, Ida, Oona, Bella, Dafne, Helene, Sofiia, Olivija, Mara, Ronja, Alma

(Personally I feel like most of these like Sofia, Olivija, Bella and Dafne fit the most of the trends in US/UK as well, although I am not from US/UK myself so I cannot talk… Generally these names or variants feel very popular in most of the world, too, somehow)

Notes
The “New Entries” are in ORDER OF POPULARITY, not letter
If there is more than one name like, if there are more than one name that went 55 spots up in Spain for example, they will be in alphabetical and not popularity order.

I did not put France because it has too many names and I will make a separate post
I did not put Germany because I could not find anything. For the German Berries: Do you have any recent list with also written how much a name has risen? Thanks! @OpheliaFlora @Wandarine (Sorry for the tag and the bother by the way! Feel free to not respond)

Some questions for you
What are your favourite names / style out of these?
What do you think of the “popularity”? Can you observe something, like possible influences to your countries or similarity in popularity in US/UK as well?

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my favourites are…

[name_f]Ada[/name_f]
[name_f]Anaïs[/name_f]
[name_f]Clémence[/name_f]
[name_f]Diana[/name_f]
[name_u]Elisa[/name_u]
[name_f]Evelina[/name_f]
[name_f]Helena[/name_f]
[name_f]Iris[/name_f]
[name_f]Louisa[/name_f]
[name_f]Millie[/name_f]
[name_f]Nell[/name_f]
[name_f]Polina[/name_f]
[name_f]Sophie[/name_f]
[name_f]Violeta[/name_f]

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Thanks for sharing!

It would be interesting to see if the rise of any of these names is connected with celebrities, pop culture etc.

I see a lot of Ukrainian names in the Polish list. That makes sense, because of the refugee population.

Regarding [name_u]Germany[/name_u], I could be wrong but I don’t believe the [name_m]German[/name_m] government put out an official list. All the statistics I’ve seen were unofficial.

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You’re right, there are no official numbers. The most popular unofficial statistics are found on Beliebte Vornamen.de.
The “fastest risers” according to the site were:
Freya, Luana, Milena, Liv, Anastasia and Kian, Leano, Enno, Lias, Luan

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Thanks for sharing these :heart:

[name_f]My[/name_f] favourites are: [name_f]Ida[/name_f], [name_f]Rosalie[/name_f], [name_f]Flora[/name_f], [name_f]Millie[/name_f], [name_u]Cezanne[/name_u], [name_f]Mira[/name_f], [name_u]Romy[/name_u], [name_f]Stella[/name_f], [name_f]Nell[/name_f], [name_u]Cleo[/name_u], [name_f]Salome[/name_f], [name_f]Amalia[/name_f], [name_f]Doris[/name_f], [name_f]Oona[/name_f], [name_f]Nara[/name_f], [name_u]Alma[/name_u], [name_f]Ambra[/name_f], [name_f]Nina[/name_f], [name_f]Kaja[/name_f], [name_u]Mina[/name_u], [name_f]Ellinor[/name_f], [name_f]Ebba[/name_f], [name_f]Polina[/name_f], [name_f]Milana[/name_f], [name_f]Evelina[/name_f], [name_f]Kiara[/name_f], [name_f]Una[/name_f], [name_f]Eira[/name_f], [name_f]Anouk[/name_f], [name_f]Amira[/name_f], [name_f]Amina[/name_f]

Some things I’ve noticed:

  • There seems to be a lot of short, snappy names (maybe in line with the UK nicknames-as-full-names trend?)
  • a number of vintage choices that seem to be growing popular where I am too
  • quite a number of -ira and -ina names
  • Arabic names seem to have grown in popularity too!
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