About KiddosNames
KiddosNames collects the official birth name rankings that thirteen countries publish each year and puts them side by side. It is free to use and there is nothing to sign up for.
It exists because this data is oddly hard to find in one place. Most naming sites run on votes, forum threads or private databases nobody can inspect. The numbers here come from the national statistics authority of each country, unaltered. If a ranking looks strange, that is what the office published.
No advertising algorithms, no affiliate links behind name recommendations, no pay-to-rank. Just the official figures, kept current and free to browse.
How the Data Pipeline Works
Every one of the thirteen countries is retrieved automatically, once a week, straight from the body that publishes it. Most offer a machine-readable file or an open data API. A few needed more work: the Danish figures come from the same endpoint their own website calls, the Dutch ones from the Sociale Verzekeringsbank rather than the statistics office, and Canada has no national naming statistic at all, so the three largest provinces that publish open data are summed instead.
Whatever the route, the numbers stay as published. Nothing is estimated or filled in where an office left a gap, and a year is only shown once enough of the sources behind it have reported.
What we add is the meaning of each name and its language family: Germanic, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Norse, Celtic, Slavic and a few smaller ones. Where a country has released several years, all of them are kept, which is what makes the year-on-year comparisons on each country page possible.
Each country page names its source and the year the figures refer to.
Government birth registries typically publish data 6–12 months after the end of a calendar year. Austria's Statistik Austria, for example, usually releases the previous year's birth name statistics in the spring. KiddosNames automatically shows the most recent available year for each country, even if that year differs between countries.
Data Sources by Country
All thirteen datasets come from the official body in each country. No third-party estimates, crowdsourced lists or commercial databases are used.
What Each Name Entry Includes
An entry is more than a position in a list. Each one carries the exact rank the statistics office published for the year you have selected, the root meaning of the name traced back to the language it came from, and the language family it belongs to. There is usually a short note on where the name originated and why it stayed in use. Below that sits every other country where the same name ranks, with its position there, and for non-English countries the meaning and description also appear in the local language.
Name meanings follow the established scholarship on European given names, which is broadly settled for the great majority of the names in these rankings. Where the origin of a name is genuinely disputed, the entry says so rather than picking the prettiest version. Eleonora and Elvira are examples: both are usually given a confident meaning elsewhere, and neither has one that holds up.
Fourteen names in the current rankings carry no meaning at all. They are recent coinages with no recorded etymology, and inventing one for them would be easy and dishonest. An empty field is the accurate answer, so that is what we show.
Cross-Country Name Trends
One of the most useful features of KiddosNames is the ability to see which names travel well across national borders. A name like Emma has held a top-five position in Austria, Germany, the United States, Canada, Norway and Sweden at the same time, which is about as close to universal as a name gets this century.
This has become far more common over the past twenty years. Shared streaming platforms, easier movement between countries and a general drift towards names that work in more than one language have all pushed in the same direction. If you need a name that grandparents in two countries can both pronounce, the comparison is the quickest way to find one.
The trend analysis section on the main page (visible when you select a country) shows: the current #1 name and how long it has held that position, which names entered the top 10 for the first time this year, and which names climbed the most positions year-over-year. This gives a picture not just of what is popular, but of what is rising.
Popular names across borders in 2024
- Emma: #1 or #2 in Austria, Germany, Norway, USA, Canada
- Noah: top 5 in Austria, Germany, Netherlands, USA, Canada, Denmark
- Sofia / Sophia: top 10 in Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Canada, USA
- Liam: top 5 in USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Netherlands
- Mia: top 10 in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway
- Oliver: top 3 in UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Australia
None of this is coincidence. Naming habits across the Western world have genuinely converged, and these names are what that convergence looks like in practice.
AI Transparency
Content on this website is created with the support of AI tools and is reviewed and editorially approved before publication.
To be specific about what that means here: the rankings themselves are not generated. Every position on this site is downloaded from the national statistics office that published it, and the list of those offices is in the section above. Name meanings and descriptions are written and checked before they go live, and a name whose origin cannot be stated with confidence is left without one. The naming law pages link to the statute, ordinance or court decision behind every statement they make, so each one can be checked against the original. Translations into the eight non-English site languages are produced by machine translation, and here we will be precise rather than flattering: eight languages cannot honestly be described as hand-checked. What they get instead is an automated test. Machine translation has a habit of translating the names inside a sentence, turning "Tommaso is the Italian form of Thomas" into "Tommaso is the Italian form of Tommaso". Every translated description is checked for exactly that, and the ones that fail are deleted rather than published, which is why some entries show the English text alone. Nothing on this site is written by a model and published unseen.
Contact & Feedback
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