Popular first names in Bavaria 2024: Leon and Sophia conquer the top!

In 2024, most parents in Bavaria opted for traditional first names. The most popular maiden names were Sophia and Anna, while Leon is the most chosen boy name. Leon displaced Lukas, who was previously at the top. This emerges from Knud Bielefeld's results, which has collected data from over 240,000 births from clinics and registry offices for 2024.

The top five of the maiden names in Bavaria are:

1. Sophia

2. Emilia

3. Emma

4. Hannah

5. Anna (displaced Marie in tenth place)

The most frequently chosen boy names are:

1. Leon

2. Felix

3. Lukas

4. Maximilian

5. Elias

regional peculiarities

A remarkable difference to the nationwide trends shows the boys and girls: Nationwide, Noah, Matteo, Elias and Luca were chosen as favorites alongside Leon, while the girls Mia were in fifth dominate. In Bavaria, on the other hand, names such as Johannes, Katharina, Ludwig, Magdalena, Simon and Theresa are particularly popular.

The evaluation is based on a comprehensive analysis of data from 391 cities in Germany, with 67 percent of the data from registry offices and 33 percent of maternity clinics. The examination only counted the first first names and summarized the same phonetically of the same.

There is no official first name statistics in Germany, but Knud Bielefeld's ranking lists have been published since 2006 and draw a clear picture of the name in Bavaria and beyond how Merkur reported. Similar statistics are also created by the Society for German Language.

Another interesting aspect is that since 2018, parents can choose “divers” as a gender at birth. However, this selection option is rarely used, which complicates the creation of a reliable ranking for this group, such as t-online