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Top City Baby Names Around the World
Nov 24, 2024 6:56 PM

  by Pamela Redmond Satran

  When we published our exclusive lists of most popular urban baby names around the world a few months ago, you cheered….and complained.

  You loved knowing which names were most popular among Nameberry readers in our cities with the most visitors, from London to Los Angeles, Chicago to Sydney.

  But you wanted more. You were curious about name popularity in not just Anglophone cities, but in a diverse range of metropolises on every continent from a variety of cultures.

  So we analyzed the most-visited names of the past year in a far-flung collection of 23 cities. We tried to balance traffic numbers and city size and diversity. Sure, we have more visitors from Houston and Manchester than we do from Berlin and Lagos, but we wanted to include more cities where English was not the primarily language. And yes, Mexico City and Lima are much larger cities than Kingston, but we have twice as many visitors from the Jamaican capital.

  A few observations: A handful of names such as Olivia, Cora, and Amara for girls, various forms of Alexander and Jack for boys are favored in such a wide range of cities that they can truly be considered international favorites.

  Other names that rank highly in one city do so for understandable reasons: Of course parents in Tel Aviv search for Israeli favorite Noa while Dublin parents choose the Irish Laoise and Donnacha, while parents in Lagos like Desmond after African human rights activist tutu and parents in Kingston favor Kymani, the name of a son of Bob Marley, along with place-name Kingston.

  And then there are those names whose popularity can be understood only by a native. Why is Antonious a top boys’ name in Berlin, for instance, while Parisians love the Welsh girls’ name Sian? What makes Celestine a favorite for girls in Manila while in Nairobi parents favor Byron? Please, enlighten us!!

  Amsterdam

  Charlotte

  Olivia

  Jolie

  Lilou

  Sadie

  Soren

  Casper

  Flint

  Oskar

  Riley

  Auckland

  Eleanor

  Charlotte

  Cora

  Maeve

  Violet

  Charlie

  Thomas

  Arthur

  Asher

  Cohen

  Bangkok

  Amara

  Nara

  Alice

  Claire

  Fleur

  Atticus

  Chad

  Quincy

  Theodore

  Wyatt

  Beijing

  Arianna

  Audrey

  Amara

  Claire

  Layla

  Ace

  Allegro

  Amory

  Davis

  Jack

  Bengaluru

  Alizeh

  Asha

  Kannika

  Elsa

  Jerusha

  Aryan

  Aarav

  Revel

  Alfie

  Anson

  Berlin

  Sienna

  Aura

  Fenna

  Myra

  Sebastia

  Bastian

  Beckett

  Jasper

  Antonious

  Aro

  Calgary

  Amelia

  Esme

  Emilia

  Isabella

  Aurelia

  Angus

  Atticus

  Axel

  Bodhi

  Felix

  Cape Town

  Aurora

  Leah

  Amelia

  Caitlin

  Keziah

  Jasper

  Matthew

  Thomas

  Xavier

  Austin

  Dubai

  Alizeh

  Mary

  Amara

  Ava

  Olivia

  Atticus

  Alec

  Alexander

  Aryan

  Christian

  Dublin

  Isla

  Sadie

  Evie

  Laoise

  Maisie

  Jack

  Donnacha

  Charlie

  Harry

  Ruadhan

  Hong Kong

  Charlotte

  Olivia

  Hailey

  Hazel

  Audrey

  Axel

  Jack

  Xavier

  Adrian

  Anson

  Istanbul

  Alisa

  Arabella

  Aurora

  Caia

  Talia

  John

  Lucian

  William

  Adam

  Alan

  Kingston

  Adelaide

  Jade

  Milani

  Talia

  Tiana

  Kingston

  Kymani

  Lliam

  Merrick

  Zachary

  Lagos

  Mirabel

  Annabel

  Isabella

  Juliet

  Christabel

  Desmond

  Henry

  Nathaniel

  Charles

  Oscar

  Manila

  Athena

  Mae

  Kathleen

  Olivia

  Celestine

  Axel

  Xavier

  Atticus

  Caius

  Kian

  Nairobi

  Lucy

  Olivia

  Ivy

  Jasmine

  Juliet

  Jayden

  Calvin

  Asher

  Byron

  Judah

  Paris

  Anouk

  Astrid

  Maeva

  Millicent

  Sian

  Julian

  Albert

  Joaquin

  Roman

  Saul

  Sao Paolo

  Olivia

  Beatrice

  Eleanor

  Mia

  Rae

  Alex

  Oliver

  Henrique

  Maverick

  Piers

  Seoul

  Leah

  Olivia

  Anais

  Elsie

  Eva

  Daniel

  Leonardo

  Rory

  Rufus

  Ulysses

  Singapore

  Giselle

  Cora

  Eleanor

  Isabella

  Kyra

  Jasper

  Xavier

  Ezekiel

  Raphael

  Ryker

  Stockholm

  Olivia

  Alba

  Seraphina

  Sienna

  Amara

  Otis

  Benjamin

  Finn

  Jack

  Julian

  Tel-Aviv-Yafo

  Naya

  Noa

  Cora

  Elisheva

  Evangeline

  Adam

  Ariel

  Ido

  James

  Lenny

  Warsaw

  Apollonia

  Cleo

  Mila

  Selene

  Tallulah

  Theodore

  Amadeus

  Flynn

  Gui

  Joachin

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