LL-L: "Names" [E] LOWLANDS-L, 10.SEP.1999 (03)

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From: Roger Thijs [Roger.Thijs at village.uunet.be]
Subject: Names

The Belgian "Nationaal Instituut voor de Statistiek" published a list with
the occurences of the christian names of babies born in Belgium in 1998.
This list unfortunately is only available in a federal Belgian version,
without split-up between the Dutch ... speaking North (60 perc.) and the
French ... speaking South (40 perc.).

Girls: 7624 different names.
The top 20:
   Occurencies
1 Laura  1172
2 Marie  822
3 Sarah  803
4 Charlotte 618
5 Lisa  572
6 Julie  558
7 Manon  552
8 Amber  490
9 Emma  482
10 Justine 434
11 Camille 424
12 Pauline 421
13 Louise  410
14 Jana  374
15 Celine  355
16 Mathilde 343
17 Elise  327
18 Eline  316
19 Oceane  315
20 Emilie  306

Boys: 6849 different names.
The top 20:
   Occurencies
1 Thomas  1029
2 Nicolas 688
3 Maxime  656
4 Robin  637
5 Dylan  561
6 Simon  542
7 Lucas  440
8 Louis  424
9 Julien  421
10 Tom  417
11 Jonas  395
12 Antoine 391
13 Kevin  379
14 Alexandre 374
15 Guillaume 374
16 Jens  371
17 Robbe  365
18 Nathan  364
19 Florian 363
20 Quentin 347
... some minorities have a limited variety in names,
   so they get also in the hit parade, as e.g.:
50 Mohammed 225

Source: Het Belang van Limburg, Sept. 8, 1999

Regards,
Roger

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