Most Popular Given Names by Country

The #1 most popular given name, male and female (provided information was available), in each of these countries.

In general, the popular local (Romanized) spelling is used, though some very common alternate spellings are accepted for some names.

If a name is used in more than one language or culture, I did my best to link them all, but there were a lot of names included so comment if I missed something.

Some of the data (most) reflects popular baby names in the most recent year, other data reflects the most popular name across an entire population. Apologies for the inconsistency.

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Hint	Answer
The World	Mohamed
Argentina	Juan
Argentina	Sofía
Armenia	Davit
Armenia	Nareh
Aruba	Daniel
Aruba	Alysha
Australia	Oliver
Australia	Chloe
Austria	Lukas
Austria	Sarah
Azerbaijan	Yusif
Azerbaijan	Nuray
Belarus	Ivan
Belarus	Anastasija
Belgium	Noah
Belgium	Emma
Bosnia	Amar
Bosnia	Amina
Brazil	Miguel
Brazil	Sophia
Bulgaria	Georgi
Bulgaria	Viktoria
Canada	Jacob
Canada	Emma
Chile	Benjamín
Chile	Sofía
Colombia	Santiago
Colombia	Mariana
Croatia	Luka
Croatia	Lana
Czech Republic	Jakub
Czech Republic	Eliška
Denmark	William
Denmark	Emma
Egypt	Mohamed
Equatorial Guinea	Manuel
Equatorial Guinea	María del Carmen
Estonia	Rasmus
Estonia	Sofia
Finland	Elias
France	Nathan
France	Emma
Georgia	Nikolozi
Georgia	Mariam
Germany	Ben
Germany	Mia
Greece	Georgios
Greece	Maria
Hungary	Bence
Hungary	Hanna

Hint	Answer
Iceland	Aron
Iceland	Emilía
India	Aarav
India	Saanvi
Iran	Mohammad
Iran	Fatemeh
Iraq	Ali
Ireland	Jack
Ireland	Emily
Israel	Noam
Israel	Muhammad
Israel	Noa
Israel	Hala
Italy	Francesco
Italy	Sofia
Jamaica	Gabrielle
Japan	Ren
Japan	Yua
Jordan	Mohammad
Jordan	Rimas
Kazakhstan	Yerasyl
Kazakhstan	Kausar
Latvia	Roberts
Latvia	Sofija
Libya	Mohammed
Libya	Aya
Liechtenstein	Leon
Liechtenstein	Emma
Lithuania	Matas
Lithuania	Ugnė
Luxembourg	Ben
Luxembourg	Emma
Macedonia	Aleksandar
Macedonia	Marija
Malaysia	Muhamad
Malaysia	Nur
Malta	Luke
Malta	Elena
Mexico	Sofía
Moldova	Maxim
Moldova	Anastasia
Monaco	Mathéo
Monaco	Léa
Mongolia	Naranbaatar
Mongolia	Odval
Morocco	Mohamed
Morocco	Fatima
Netherlands	Daan
Netherlands	Emma
New Zealand	Jack
New Zealand	Olivia

Hint	Answer
Norway	Emil
Norway	Emma
Pakistan	Mohammad
Pakistan	Fatima
Philippines	John
Philippines	Sophia
Poland	Jakub
Poland	Julia
Portugal	Rodrigo
Portugal	Maria
Puerto Rico	Luis
Puerto Rico	Mia
Romania	David
Romania	Maria
Russia	Alexander
Russia	Sofiya
Serbia	Luka
Serbia	Milica
Slovakia	Jakub
Slovakia	Sofia
Slovenia	Luka
Slovenia	Eva
South Korea	Min-jun
South Korea	Seo-yeon
Spain	Alejandro
Spain	Lucía
Sweden	William
Sweden	Alice
Taiwan	Chia-Hao
Taiwan	Shu-fen
Tajikistan	Muhammad
Tajikistan	Sumayah
Thailand	Somchai
Tunisia	Mehdi
Tunisia	Mariam
Turkey	Yusuf
Turkey	Zeynep
Ukraine	Denys
Ukraine	Anastasiya
United Arab Emirates	Mohammad
United Arab Emirates	Fatima
United Kingdom	Harry
United Kingdom	Amelia
United States births (2012)	Aiden
United States births (2012)	Sophia
United States total	James
United States total	Mary
Uruguay	Agustín
Uruguay	Florencia
Venezuela	Sebastián
Venezuela	Camila

Level 65

Jan 14, 2013

Great quiz :) respect for the effort !

Level 82

Jan 14, 2013

Thanks! :) I'm happy someone enjoyed it.

Level 81

Jan 14, 2013

Awesome quiz! Very unique and interesting :)

Level 33

Feb 16, 2013

Darn... that was tough. I really enjoyed it though. I spent half the quiz trying to spell Muhommod... and couldn't get a single version right. :)

Level 82

Feb 17, 2013

haha... really? There are something like 6 or 8 different acceptable spellings for Muhammad on the quiz. More than for any other name. Mohammed, Muhammad, Mohammad, Mohamet etc.

Level 82

Mar 6, 2013

I'm sure if I had any info for Ghana the most popular name would be Kwame. I used to work with a bunch of guys from Ghana and fully 2/3 of them were named Kwame.

Level 32

Mar 17, 2013

Great quiz! But shouldn't 'Anastasiya' also work for 'Anastasija'?

Level 82

Mar 17, 2013

Thanks! :D and... oops.. yeah, I missed that. I tried to match up the many various spellings of different names whenever possible. Thanks for the tip. I'll fix it.

Level 14

Mar 19, 2013

I thought the most common name in India to be something like Suresh, Kumar, Patel, Singh, Lakshmi or something like that. Now I know that it is Aarav and Saanvi. Thanks for informing

Level 82

Mar 19, 2013

Patel and Singh are very common surnames in India but I don't believe they are used as given (first) names. Anyway, thank you for taking the quiz. :)

Level 82

May 10, 2013

I'm happy that so many people have taken this quiz that even Odval, Sumayah, and Shu-fen have been guessed at least once by this point.

Level 71

Jun 29, 2013

I'm surprised than Kim isn't on here, as 60% of Koreans are supposed to have that name. :/

Oh, and it seems like Lukas hasn't been matched up with Luke/Luka and Alejandro with Alexander/Aleksandar.

Level 82

Jun 30, 2013

Alejandro is matched up. Luka and Lukas are not, I'll see about fixing that.

Concerning the name Kim, first of all this is a family name not a given name. That's the main reason it is not on this quiz. Though it *does* show up here: Most Common Surnames.

Also, I think your stats are off. It's my understanding that roughly 60% of the people in Korea have one of three family names: Kim, Pak/Park, and Lee. Of those three very common family names, Kim is the most common, but I think it's still less than 25% of the country. To my knowledge, Nguyen is the most common family name per capita in any country in the world. Around 25% of everyone in Vietnam has that name.

Level 17

Dec 17, 2013

Where's china, bangladesh, and most importantly, most of africa?

Level 82

Dec 18, 2013

If you find good data on any of these countries I can add them. Some countries in Africa haven't had a census in 30+ years. Some have never had one. There is little or no data available on the prevalence of various names in most of these countries. I'm pretty sure the most common name in Ghana is Kwame but I couldn't find data to support this. I'm about 98-99% sure that Mohammed is the most common name in Bangladesh, though I could not find data for that country, either.

Level 69

May 23, 2014

Great quiz! Enjoyed it.

My suggestions: Gabriela should work for Gabrielle (it's the spanish version), and you should mash Lukas up with all the Luke and Luka stuff

Level 82

May 23, 2014

It's been a while since I looked at or updated this one, but if I ever get around to it I'll do that. Thanks. :)

Level 48

May 28, 2014

I can't figure out what I was trying to type when I got "Nur."

Level 82

May 28, 2014

Maybe Nora or Nour or something like that. There are multiple type-ins accepted for many of these names including different versions from different cultures, if those same names also appear on the quiz. Though it has been a long time since I updated this and I know there are some things I missed.

Level 37

May 28, 2014

I'm interested in the source for the Japan names - I've never had a student named Yua. I have plenty named Yui, which many Japanese insurance sites list as the most popular name. Typo, perhaps?

Level 82

May 29, 2014

hm... you might be right. I've never spent much time in Japan but I have also heard the name Yui before. I got this from Wikipedia, there could have been a mistake on their end. I don't think it was on mine. I remember seeing that name on the Wiki page as I was making this quiz.

Level 37

Jun 3, 2014

I dug back through the source material on wikipedia and I think I discovered the sticking point - more girls were named Yui in 2013 (I understand you were most likely using the 2012 data when this quiz was made), but the thing is you can write Yui in a variety of ways, using different kanji. In fact, since it's a popular name, the kanji being used have probably proliferated to help distinguish a child from her classmates, much as Yoko can be written in at least ten different ways.

More people named their daughters Yua using 結愛 than Yui using 結衣 (the most common kanji choice for Yui), so that became the "top" name on RocketNews24, from which wikipedia made their list, even though Yui (written any way) is twice as popular as Yua (written any way). A linguistic quirk.

Level 82

Jun 4, 2014

Good work. That sounds pretty conclusive. I'll make both variants acceptable whenever I update this.

Level 77

Jun 4, 2014

As a Finn I have to comment. Why is Finland missing a girl's name as most other countries have both?

Level 82

Jun 4, 2014

I was just working with the data I found. If you have something that gives a girls' and boys' name, then I can add it to the growing list of things I need to fix/update on this quiz, and change it whenever I get around to doing that.

Level 75

Jul 10, 2014

Camilla didn't give me Camila, and Joseph didn't give me Yusif or Yusuf.

Level 67

Jan 10, 2019

i tried like 40 variations of yusef, yuzef, yuzif, yousef yousuf etc etc. Of all the ones I tried I think atelast 3/4 are ways they are actually spelled ( i ve seen it spelled many different ways)

Level 45

Jul 16, 2014

137 of 153! Wahoo!

Great quiz, kal, a real challenge.

Level 82

Jul 17, 2014

That's quite impressive.

Level 33

Jul 25, 2014

Amazing research! Suggest entering Luke should give Lukas (Austria) as well as Luka (various countries).

Level 82

Jul 26, 2014

This was my first or one of my first quizzes. I'll get around to updating it some day.

Level 21

Dec 27, 2015

I am Japanese, I do not know the name "Yua"....

Level 29

Mar 12, 2016

I know lots of people with these names... and this quiz gave me true hell.

Level 47

Nov 11, 2016

71 right. And I'm kicking myself for some of the ones I missed. I mean, I was going through people I know and I know at least 2 Jacks.

Level 37

Jul 26, 2018

Challenging, but at the same time very interesting. Thank you for the opportunity to see how the world names its children.

Level 67

Jan 10, 2019

Why is israel on there 4 times? (and several only oncce, but I expect that is due to lack of data)

Level 82

Jan 10, 2019

Israel had different data sets for Jewish and Muslim residents.

Level 68

Feb 27, 2019

Please accept George for Georgios

Level 61

Mar 5, 2022

Great quiz :) I got 93 which I was quite happy with. Although that was mostly through the European/western culture countries, I was woefully ignorant of a lot of the Asian names outside of Mohammed and Fatima!

Level 64

May 26, 2023

Just wanted to let you know that for Italy Leonardo is the most used name, both in general and in the most recent years. Great quiz though.

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