INSEE has published the first names given by the French to their children in 2019. The podium is unchanged but trends show that it may not last.
With 3,943 Emma born in 2019, the first name retains its first place nationally but has experienced a hell of a loss of speed: -10% in one year.
Emma, Jade and Louise, the podium unchanged
Jade and Louise, also in decline, are maintained at more than 3,500 annual births.
Behind, Lina, Mila and Ambre consolidate their place in the sun.
Within the first 100 names given to little girls, Joy (+ 46%) and Arya (+ 38%) are in fashion, when Léana and Mathilde see their influence drop by 28% and 18% respectively.
If we move away from the first places, some more discreet first names seem to burst the screen: with 814% increase in one year, and 64 births in 2019, it is Octavia which has the strongest annual increase.
Other national trends: the Nola, which go from 51 to 221 annual births, the Liyah, which go from 68 to 252, or the Chelsea which were only 59 to emerge in 2018 and of which 182 small representatives appeared in 2019.
The A and E still occupy a huge majority of the last letters of female first names.
In 2019, there were 71% of babies with a name ending with an A or an E (compared to 70.5% the previous year).
The A alone occupies the end of 42.3% of the first names of little girls.
Leo slips between Raphael and Gabriel
And if 2019 marked the beginning of the end for the heyday of the Gabriel ... Since 2015, the first name has dominated the first names most given to little boys, but with less than 5,000 births in 2019, the first name has seen a decline of 8 % compared to last year.
Behind, Raphaël descends the podium of a march in favor of Léo, who goes from 4447 births to 4652. Behind, the Arthur (+ 6.6%), the Maël (+ 3.8) and the Noah (+ 11% ) have the wind in their sails.
But it is the Tiago who achieve the best progression in one year in the most popular first names: 71% increase in one year and 2,697 births against only 1,575 in 2018. And that without counting the + 584% of the Tyago variant.
Good progress can also be noted for the Ayden (+ 32%) and the Owen (+ 29%).
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It is also the N that dominates the end of a quarter of the first names of little boys in 2019. On the other hand, the letter that progresses the most in the tail of the first names of little boys is the O with 13.6% babies with a name ending in this way, compared to 13.2% the previous year.
Conversely, the final declining letter for boys is S with 11.4% of babies with a name ending in this way, against 12% the previous year.
The year of the second star on the jersey of the French football team, Kylian had a very good season.
2019 marks a decline of 23% for this first name, which goes into the depths of the ranking from 56th place to 72nd.
Regional specificities
When we observe the geographical distribution of the most given names, the specificities are numerous.
As for the little girls, the Jades are popular along the Channel coasts, the Emma and the Louise are the first in the departments north of the Loire while the Amber and the Lina are rather better represented south of The city.
The most popular names for girls in 2019
Among boys, the first name Mohamed is the first name most often given in Seine-Saint-Denis and Essonne, while the rest of Ile-de-France is divided between Gabriel and Adam.
For their part, Malo won the first place of the first names costarmoricans and Maël those of the Vosges and Kaïs dominates the competition in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
The most popular names for boys in 2019
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