In Croatia we have mostly slavic names after old Croatian kings and dukes for boys( Zvonimir,Tomislav,Branimir,Davor) and for girls names after fruit or flowers ( Danica, Jelena, Vesna, Dunja, Ružica, Višnja)

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  1. Latin and Greek names are popular in Germany like Emilia, Julia, Alexander, Felix, Maximilian, Philipp, Sophie etc

    In the older generation you also find many names of old germanic origin like Günther, Dieter, Helmut, Harald, Karl etc but they are uncommon in the younger generations. A few like Karl or Frieda are making a comeback for newborns though.

    Especially in the northern parts, Scandinavian names are popular like Finn, Sören, Björn, Olaf.

    English names are often seen as a bit lower class, most famously Kevin but also Justin, Jason, Jeremy, Mandy, Nancy.

  2. For both men and women most in the top 20 are Hebrew, Greek or Roman (basically Christian, though some of them are later creations not found in the Bible) in origin. I’ll list the exceptions

    For women: Danuta (origin unclear, either Lithuanian, Latin or a variation of Slavic of Dana/Danka), Karolina (female version of Karol – Karl/Charles)

    For men: Slavic names Stanisław, Wojciech, Zbigniew. Then, for some reason Persian in origin Dariusz (like the Persian King Darius)

    Complete top 20 from 2019:

    Women: Anna (1 063 017),
    Maria (625 353),
    Katarzyna (609 363),
    Małgorzata (586 619),
    Agnieszka (552 814),
    Barbara (504 920),
    Ewa (488 429),
    Krystyna (451 241),
    Elżbieta (438 050),
    Magdalena (433 736).
    Joanna (407 745),
    Zofia (387 853),
    Aleksandra (382 494),
    Monika (380 271),
    Teresa (364 266),
    Danuta (320 605),
    Natalia (292 987),
    Karolina (288 558),
    Marta (287 554),
    Beata (283 239)

    Men: Piotr (700 289),
    Krzysztof (659 470),
    Andrzej (578 355),
    Tomasz (541 293),
    Jan (516 599),
    Paweł (512 682),
    Michał (486 736),
    Marcin (453 552),
    Stanisław (414 147),
    Jakub (399 271),
    Adam (398 735),
    Marek (397 430),
    Łukasz (385 363),
    Grzegorz (384 716),
    Mateusz (371 835),
    Wojciech (328 064),
    Mariusz (293 496),
    Dariusz (293 205),
    Zbigniew (289 308),
    Jerzy (273 017).

  3. Hard question. What’s a biblical name? The fifth most common name for women (not necessarily what people are called) is **Margareta**, which is originally Greek. Is it biblical? The seventh most common is **Linnea**, which is after a flower (the *twinflower*, which in turn was named after Carolus Linnaeus, who in turn was inspired by a linden tree when taking that name). Among the names people are called, it’s a bit harder. A lot of them are directly or indirectly biblical or at least from Hebrew. **Lena** is from Greek again. Maybe **Emma**.
    For men it’s easier, the most given name is **Karl**, which just mean *man*, and the most used is **Lars**, which is from Latin.

  4. Difficult to know, but lots of old norse names we don’t really think of and lots of them consists of two words put together. For females for example: Astrid (from As=God and Frid=Beautiful?), Saga (Seer), Freja (goddess of reproduction), Liv (means like life/protection, also the name of the woman which survived Ragnarök). Male names sometimes comes from animals like Björn (bear) and Ulf (Wolf). Erik means something like Always/Alone. Sven means something like “young man” and on it goes.

  5. Turkish names are very often derived from nature or just normal daily concepts. For example, Turkish words for rose, rain, raindrop, leaf, daisy, pearl, silk, honeycomb, love, etc are common for girls, and wind, eagle, hawk, cloud, peace, free, plane tree are common for boys. We also have a lot of old pre-Islamic Turkish names. Many people make a point of not giving names of Arabic origin to their kids. I quite like it, because if you hear the name you immediately know what it is.

  6. The most popular girls’ name last year in Scotland was Olivia. It comes from the Latin Oliva, meaning peace. There were 349 babies named Olivia last year.

    In the top five most popular names for girls, none are biblical. The fourth most popular name was Freya, so there’s a different kind of religious connection there!.

    The third-most-popular boys’ name last year was Leo. It comes from the Latin Leo, meaning lion. There were 289 babies named Leo last year.

    In the top 5 most popular names for boys, the two most popular (Jack and Noah) are biblical. Jack was originally a diminutive of John or Jacob, so I’d count it as biblical in origin!

  7. Lars, Iris, Milan, Fleur, Stijn, Bram, Lieke, Sven, Femke, Finn, Anouk, Niels

    These are basically the most common in the 21st century. Gen Xers and Millenials were the first generation that were no longer named after family members, before that, the vast majority had Christian names.

  8. Wim (willem), Arnout, Brecht, Bert, Rik (from Frederik), Louis are all pretty common Germanic names.

    Germanic names for women seem to be pretty old fashioned like Hilde, Geertrui, Mathilde. Emma is still pretty common.

    If anyone wants to throw some Latin or other names in here for Belgium be my guest.

  9. If it’s not Biblical then it’s definitely ancient Greek like Socrates, Euripides , Aristides, Pericles, Aristotelis, Hermes, Antigone, Iphigenia, Penelope, Athena, Persephone or names inspired by nature or everyday life or virtues (mainly used by older generations and are very different by region):
    Gerakina- Γερακίνα- female hawk
    Chionià- Χιονιά- Snow
    Epistimi- Επιστήμη- Science
    Grammatiki- Γραμματική- Grammar
    Syrmatènia- Συρματένια- wired

    Gennaios- Γενναίος- Brave
    Democrates- Δημοκράτης- democrat
    Mavros- Μαύρος- Black.

  10. In Spain, it may depend on the region (the Basque Country has a majority of Basque names, in Galicia there are some Celtic names nonexistent in other areas of Spain).

    **A)** Overall the most common are Gothic (Visigoth heritage) or other Germanic (Swabian, Frankish heritage) names (more common in men, relating to war):

    Fernando, Raul, Adolfo, Alfonso, Francisco, Carlos, Luis, Enrique, Eduardo, Roberto, Ramón, …

    Most Spanish family names come from patronymic forms of these names: Fernández (son of Fernando = Ferdinandson), Rodríguez (son of Rodrigo= Ruriksson/ Roderickson),…

    **B)** followed by Roman and Greek names (more common in women, regarded as very beautiful feminine names):

    Antonio, Elena, Teresa, Victor, Lucia, Silvia, Beatriz, Mercedes, Patricia, Rosa, Irene, Alejandro, Alba, …

    **C)** …same but related to Christianity: Cristina, Concepción, Encarnación, Ángel(es), Pilar, Gloria, Dolores (sorrows), Nuria (holy place in Catalonia)

    **D)** and other languages culturally relevant nearby: (I include borrowings independently of etymology: Ivan’s version in Spanish is Juan, biblical John, but it was taken from Russian, not the bible).

    Ivan (Russian), Dario (Persian), Andrea (Italian), Fátima (daughter of Muhammad… and Christian holy place), Oscar (from English, from Irish)…

  11. If we extend Biblical names to include the names of early saints and martyrs, then it’s:

    – Oljga/Oleg/Igorj – Varangian names
    – Boris/Gleb – Slavic
    – Vladimir/Vladislav/Jaroslav/Stanislav/Vsevolod – double-barrelled Slavic names
    – Bogdan – Slavic calque of Theodore
    – Svetlana – sui generis name from a poem
    – Diana
    – Milana/Milena
    – Alisa, a rare Western European loan
    – Ruslan/Timur – Tatar

  12. In all time Top 10 statistics

    male names:

    * [Kalevi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalevi_(mythology)) (6.) – Ancient ruler, giant in Finnish and Estonian mythology
    * [Tapio](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapio_(spirit)) (7.) – God of forest in Finnish mythology
    * [Ilmari](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilmarinen) (10.) – Blacksmith God in Finnish mythology

    female names

    * [Marjatta](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjatta) (6.) – Arguably not a form of biblical Mary, but comes from Finnish word for berry – [*marja*,](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/marja#Finnish) also charecter in Finnish national epic *Kalevala*
    * Annikki (9.) – Arguably not a form of biblical Hannah, but comes from Finnish verb [*antaa*](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/antaa#Finnish) – to give, one of the daughters of forest god *Tapio* in Finnish mythology

  13. For Ireland you’ve got a lot of men named Daire/Dairaigh/Dara etc. (pronounced dara or daruh). There’s also Fíon (pronounced fee-uhn), Ronan, Brian and Oisín (pronounced uh-sheen).

    For the women, there’s a lot of them called Aiofe (pronounced eefa), Niamh (pronounced neev), Aisling/Ashling (pronounced Ashling), Soirse (pronounced either seersha or sursha), Shannon, Orla/Orlaigh or Ailbhe (pronounced alva or ale-va).

    EDIT: Forgot about all the lads called Cian

  14. Names that come from a certain personality trait: Zdravko (healthy), Mirko (peaceful), Zlatan (golden), Vedran, Miroslav, etc. Also Hrvoje, which comes from Hrvat (Croat).

    Also, Nada (hope), Jasna (clear) and Janja (lamb, animal derived) when it comes to female names.

    Both can be found with both Croats and Serbs (and Bosniaks sometimes), but here are some (almost) exclusively Serbian: Momčilo (manly), Veselin (happy), Slobodan (free), Miroljub (peacelover), Milovan, Radovan, Ratimir, Spasoje…

    Have no idea about the names Natko and Lola (male names), and where did they come from.

  15. 2021 December data:

    Most popular names for men: Jonas (28 725) , Vytautas (28 499), Tomas (23 589), Antanas (19 800), Mindaugas (19 602), Darius (17 446), Kęstutis (17 295), Andrius (16 574), Mantas (15947), Saulius (15 188). The non-biblical ones are associated with famous historical figures from Lithuania’s history, names of kings and dukes from the Middle ages

    Women names: Irena (26 260), Janina (21 236), Kristina (19 759), Danutė (19 612), Lina (19 406), Regina (19 204), Ona (18 580), Daiva (18 281), Rasa (17 989), Aldona (16 303). Similar story for womens’ names, a lot of them have counterparts in other languages but some of them are ancient pagan goddess names, like Laima or Gabija, Saulė

  16. Names for newborns last year that I think are non-Biblical.

    **Boys**

    * 2. Nil
    * 5. Leo
    * 7. Àlex
    * 8. Martí
    * 10. Hugo
    * 11. Liam
    * 12. Èric
    * 13. Bruno
    * 15. Arnau
    * 17. Max
    * 18. Enzo
    * 19. Gael (sounds Biblical, but I’m not sure, I’ve never read the whole Bible)
    * 20. Aran

    So, as you can see, out of the last year’s 20 first names for boys, about 12 or 13 are non-Biblical.

    **Girls**

    * 1. Júlia
    * 2. Martina
    * 3. Mia
    * 4. Emma
    * 5. Lucia
    * 6. Sofia
    * 7. Ona
    * 9. Laia
    * 11. Abril
    * 13. Chloe
    * 15. Noa (is this the femenine of Noe???)
    * 16. Carla
    * 17. Lia
    * 18. Arlet
    * 19. Olívia
    * 20. Gala

    And for girls born last years, 15 or 16 among the top 20.

    Source: https://www.idescat.cat/pub/?id=aec&n=946

  17. Aurora (Latin)
    Ginevra (Guinevere or Genevre in English)
    Alice (French)
    Emma (Germanic)
    Giorgia (Greek)
    Vittoria (Latin)
    Matilde (Germanic)

    Francesco (Latin, it got famous in Christian Europe after Francis of Assisi, but I don’t think it’s biblical)
    Lorenzo (Latin, it means “from the Laurentum city” in the Lazio region, Italy)
    Riccardo (Germanic)
    Edoardo (Old-English)

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