Ranking: With this first name you will become a managing director in Germany - is yours also there?

Horst, Fritz or Tanja - what are Germany's managing directors called?

A study by the job portal Indeed looked into this question.

The job portal analyzed the first names of the managing directors of 318,190 GmbHs in Germany from 2002-2019 and determined a ranking list of the most common first names in these management positions *. 

Study: German managing directors are called Andreas, Michael or Christian

People named

Andreas

have the best chances of a job as managing director

.

With a share of over two percent, this first name occupies the top spot in the name ranking.

They are at the top of companies in Germany 7,530 times.

In second place are bosses with the first name

Michael

(6,820), while

Christian

(6,450) takes third place.

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Top 25: Names of managing directors in Germany

place	Surname	number
1	Andreas	7,530
2	Michael	6,820
3	Christian	6,450
4th	Thomas	6.220
5	Alexander	4,480
6th	Peter	4.110
7th	Stefan	4,070
8th	Frank	4,070
9	Katja	3,430
10	Martin	3,270
11	Christoph	2,910
12th	Dirk	2,750
13th	Matthias	2,700
14th	Daniel	2,570
15th	Oliver	2,530
16	Markus	2,530
17th	Antje	2,520
18th	Jörg	2,490
19th	Jurgen	2,270
20th	Jan	2.210
21st	Jens	2,150
22nd	Klaus	2.120
23	Bernd	2,050
24	Nicole	2,030
25th	wolfgang	1,950

Source: Indeed

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Top ten female CEO names

Only

one female name makes it into the top ten of

the first name ranking:

Katja

(3,430) is the most popular female first name in 9th place among all CEOs.

Other popular first names among managers are

Antje

(2,520) and

Nicole

(2,030).

place	Surname	number
1	Katja	3,430
2	Antje	2,520
3	Nicole	2,030
4th	Julia	1,520
5	Claudia	1,090
6th	Cornelia	1,090
7th	Kerstin	920
8th	Andrea	880
9	Angelica	850
10	Anja	790

Source: Indeed

In total,

over 20,000 different first names were

identified

in the Indeed study

.

If you are not called Andreas or Katja, you shouldn't let yourself be deterred from striving for a position as managing director.

Attracting more women to management positions - that's how it works

“In Germany in particular

, there is still a great deal of homogeneity

in

management positions

and, above all, a

large

excess of

men,

” says Alessandra Mahnecke, Senior HR Business Partner DACH at Indeed.

"I can only advise all employers to intensify the targeted recruitment of female talent - also at the top level." To this end, the expert recommends

paying

attention

to

gender-appropriate language

in job advertisements, targeting female

candidates specifically in employer branding as well as conscious and unconscious prejudices in Reduce the application process.

(as) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

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