🇩🇪 Most Popular Baby Names in Germany (2025)
Germany has no official national statistic of first names. The ranking shown here is the one published each year by the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache in Wiesbaden, an association that evaluates registrations from registry offices across the country. It releases ten names per sex, which is why the German list is shorter than the others. Berlin is the exception within Germany: it publishes the first names of all registered newborns for every district as open data, and those figures are used for a separate comparison.
Data source: Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfDS) · Year: 2025 · 10 girl names, 10 boy names
2024 to 2025: What Moved
Compared with 2024, in the girls' ranking, 6 of the 10 names changed position, 0 are new and 4 kept exactly the same place; in the boys' ranking, 7 of the 10 names changed position, 1 is new and 2 kept exactly the same place.
Girls
Biggest climbers: Emma (#3 → #2, +1), Ella (#7 → #6, +1), Klara (#9 → #8, +1)
Biggest drops: Emilia (#2 → #3, -1), Hannah (#6 → #7, -1), Mila (#8 → #9, -1)
Boys
Biggest climbers: Theo (#7 → #3, +4), Emil (#8 → #5, +3), Elias (#9 → #7, +2)
Biggest drops: Luca (#4 → #9, -5), Henry (#6 → #10, -4), Leon (#3 → #6, -3), Paul (#5 → #8, -3)
New in the ranking: Leo
Dropped out: Louis
Steady Through 2021–2025
Sophia tops the girls' ranking in Germany, and has done so 3 years running.
9 girls' names appear in every year from 2021–2025 without a gap:
Noah tops the boys' ranking in Germany, and has done so 5 years running.
7 boys' names appear in every year from 2021–2025 without a gap:
Five Years at the Top
How today's ten most common names ranked in each year since 2021. A blank cell means the name was not in that year's list.
Girls
Nine of today's top ten girls' names were already in the top ten in 2021. Lia was not in the 2021 list at all.
| Name | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sophia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Emma | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Emilia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Mia | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Lina | 7 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 |
| Ella | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 |
| Hannah | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
| Klara | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 |
| Mila | 6 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 9 |
| Lia | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Boys
Seven of today's top ten boys' names were already in the top ten in 2021. Theo, Leo and Henry were not in the 2021 list at all.
| Name | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noah | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Matteo | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Theo | 7 | 3 | |||
| Leo | 4 | ||||
| Emil | 8 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 5 |
| Leon | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| Elias | 7 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 |
| Paul | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| Luca | 6 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 9 |
| Henry | 10 | 7 | 6 | 10 |
Germany Among the Thirteen Countries
Where the most common names of Germany stand in the other twelve countries on this site, each in its most recent year. Accents are ignored; different spellings count as different names.
Girls
Five of the top ten girls' names rank in at least six other countries.
| Name | Rank here | Other countries where it ranks | Highest elsewhere |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sophia | 1 | 6 | #5 in Austria |
| Emma | 2 | 10 | #1 in Austria |
| Emilia | 3 | 4 | #2 in Austria |
| Mia | 4 | 10 | #3 in Switzerland |
| Lina | 5 | 4 | #4 in Switzerland |
| Ella | 6 | 9 | #4 in Norway |
| Hannah | 7 | 4 | #12 in Austria |
| Klara | 8 | 1 | #50 in Austria |
| Mila | 9 | 7 | #5 in the Netherlands |
| Lia | 10 | 3 | #8 in Switzerland |
Boys
Five of the top ten boys' names rank in at least six other countries.
| Name | Rank here | Other countries where it ranks | Highest elsewhere |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noah | 1 | 12 | #1 in Austria |
| Matteo | 2 | 5 | #4 in Switzerland |
| Theo | 3 | 8 | #7 in Denmark |
| Leo | 4 | 9 | #3 in Canada |
| Emil | 5 | 5 | #2 in Norway |
| Leon | 6 | 5 | #8 in Austria |
| Elias | 7 | 7 | #4 in Austria |
| Paul | 8 | 2 | #2 in Austria |
| Luca | 9 | 9 | #3 in the Netherlands |
| Henry | 10 | 5 | #5 in the United States |
Which countries name most alike
Of its 20 names, Germany shares the most with Austria (19), Switzerland (17) and Canada (13), and the fewest with Italy (5).
Where the Names of Germany Come From
The most frequent origin among the 20 names of 2025 is Latin, with 7. The largest change since 2021 is in Greek names: 3 then, 5 now. A name with two origins, such as Lucas with Greek and Latin, counts for both. More on the groups in the guide to name origins.
| Origin | Names in 2021 | Names in 2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Latin | 7 | 7 |
| Hebrew | 6 | 6 |
| Greek | 3 | 5 |
| Germanic | 3 | 3 |
What the National List Leaves Out: Berlin, 2023
Germany has no official naming statistic. The ranking above comes from the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache, which reads birth registrations and publishes ten names for each sex. Berlin publishes far more: every first name registered, borough by borough, as open data.
These are Berlin figures, not national ones, and they are from 2023 rather than the year shown in the ranking above. Read them as a second view, not as a correction.
Most registered first names in Berlin
Several of them are missing from the national top ten entirely: Charlotte, Adam, Liam. A list of ten names cannot show what a city of this size is actually calling its children.
By borough
Tempelhof-Schöneberg (4299 first names registered)
Girls: Mila, Emilia, Mia · Boys: Adam, Noah, Leon
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (3301 first names registered)
Girls: Charlotte, Emma, Emilia · Boys: Noah, Anton, Leon
Pankow (3147 first names registered)
Girls: Emilia, Emma, Mia · Boys: Leon, Emil, Liam
Mitte (3113 first names registered)
Girls: Lina, Emilia, Sophia · Boys: Adam, Noah, Ali
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (2691 first names registered)
Girls: Emma, Emilia, Maria · Boys: Noah, Adam, Leon
Spandau (2032 first names registered)
Girls: Charlotte, Ava, Ayla · Boys: Liam, Noah, Emil
Neukölln (1705 first names registered)
Girls: Emilia, Medina, Lina · Boys: Noah, Adam, Amir
Lichtenberg (1313 first names registered)
Girls: Charlotte, Emilia, Lara · Boys: Adam, Liam, Noah
Treptow-Köpenick (544 first names registered)
Girls: Alma, Charlotte, Emily · Boys: Liam, Jonas, Leo
Steglitz-Zehlendorf (420 first names registered)
Girls: Mila, Charlotte, Ella · Boys: Luca, Noah, Adam
Marzahn-Hellersdorf (364 first names registered)
Girls: Emilia, Mia, Charlotte · Boys: Anton, Felix, Louis
Reinickendorf (197 first names registered)
Girls: Charlotte, Eva, Amira · Boys: Adam, Miran, Hamza
A birth is registered at the register office of the borough where it took place, not where the family lives, so boroughs with large maternity hospitals carry far more entries than their population would suggest. The counts are of first given names only. Data: BerlinOnline GmbH, based on data from the Berlin State Office for Citizens and Regulatory Affairs (LABO), daten.berlin.de, licensed CC BY 3.0 DE.