I'm looking for a list of the most popular names (male and female) in
Germany. Answers would have to include:
- The list of the top 500 and the top 1000 names (male and female)
- Detailed statistics: number of population covered by the top 500
names and top 1000 names
- Source of the information
- A list broke down by age would be a plus
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Request for Question Clarification by
scriptor-ga
on
01 Aug 2005 05:39 PDT
Dear phoboscausa,
I strongly doubt that such a list exists anywhere. There is no
national agency collecting and publishing data of this kind in
Germany. Although regulated by Federal laws, names are mainly under
the responsibility of the countless local civil register offices, with
no centralized analysis. All lists of the most popular first names are
based upon data voluntarily contributed by only a small number of
civil register offices.
Regards,
Scriptor
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
01 Aug 2005 05:44 PDT
There is this list, at least, although it's a bit shy of the Top 1000:
http://www.gfds.de/namen.html
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Clarification of Question by
phoboscausa-ga
on
01 Aug 2005 11:00 PDT
Hello there,
Scriptor:
So far, I have been able to gather such information from statistic
institutes or social security bureau of France and UK. So, such lists
do exist at least in these two countries. I'm not familiar with the
German language and that's probably where I need help ;-)
Pafalafa:
Thanks for the link but this name list is a little short ;-)
Thanks for your help
Regards,
Phoboscausa
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Request for Question Clarification by
scriptor-ga
on
01 Aug 2005 12:15 PDT
Dear Phoboscausa,
First, I would like to say that I am German (so you know I'm not
making up things). Then, back to your question. Germany is very
different from France and the United Kingdom. Those are highly
centralized countries, while Germany is a federation of 16 states with
many competencies being with those states instead of Federal agencies.
So finding national statistics on certain topics is much more
complicated in Germany. Sometimes, they don't even exist, or at least
they are not published. This leads to a second point: Germany still
suffers from the old Prussian arrogance of goverment agencies towards
the citizens. Much less statistical data than in other European
countries is published, mainly not for reasons of securtity, but
simply because of a "That's none of your business, little
citizen"-attitude. And the third problem are the strict privacy laws.
Agencies collecting personal data (for example, all Germans have an ID
card, so their data is collected) are usually not allowed to analyze
their records for statistics.
I have never seen detailed national statistics on first names, and I
am sure that such statistics do not exist. But maybe one of my
colleagues can prove me wrong. I hope it.
Regards,
Scriptor
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Clarification of Question by
phoboscausa-ga
on
01 Aug 2005 14:35 PDT
Hi Scriptor,
Ok, thanks for your clarification.
Phoboscausa
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