Top Ten Names

[minionofmidas]

Awful. What is with all these prim, effeminate names people keep giving their boys? To be unique like all the other Orah book watchers? Very few people can pull off a "Tobias" or "Florian," even with the inevitable dopey nickname. Stick with something that won't get your kid punched in the face, please.

Tobi is a perfectly common man's name in Germany It won't get anybody looked at oddly or punched in the face.
I always thought Florian is ugly, though. It was fashionable(-ish) around the time of my birth as well. The common nickname is Flo (pronounced the same as Floh, "flea").

[minionofmidas]

Oh yeah, here's Germany 2010.

1. Leon
2. Lukas / Lucas
3. Ben
4. Finn / Fynn
5. Jonas
6. Paul
7. Luis / Louis
8. Maximilian
9. Luca / Luka
10. Felix

Yeah, how they define which spellings to combine... beats me. I mean, Luca is Italian for Lukas and Luka is Croatian.

Here's girls:

1. Mia
2. Hannah / Hanna
3. Lena
4. Lea / Leah
5. Emma
6. Anna
7. Leonie / Leoni
8. Lilli / Lilly / Lili
9. Emilie / Emily
10. Lina

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, the German form is Leander dammit.

[minionofmidas]

Yeah, when friends of my father named their son "Leon" in 1991, the only place I'd ever seen the name was in a list of Byzantine Emperors.
A few years after they started naming every other kid like him, and haven't looked back since. He'll go through life looking older than people assumed he'd be when they heard his name.

[minionofmidas]

Is it just me, or do parents show, regardless of nationality, more common sense when naming boys?

There is a longterm tendency for people to be slightly more conservative about boys' names than girls' names.