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in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
I have no clue about Finn, sorry. It's been heard for a few years now, but where it came from back then, I don't know.
The Statistische Bundesamt counts 685,795 births in Germany in 2005, so you can reckon that 27,700 births would be, um, let's say around 4 %? (I'm terribly bad at maths.)
You can ask Knud Bielefeld, who comprised that list, if you have questions about his data collection: kontakt@kbielefeld.de It certainly would be interesting to know why there are nearly no Turkish names.
I also looked around online and I found these two articles:
http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/berlin_nid_41385.html
According to an enquiry by the FOCUS magazine among the 12 registry offices in Berlin, Ali was on rank 10 among the most popular baby names in Berlin in 2006.
However, this site says the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache makes its list based on the data of registries in medium-sized and small towns - which have a lower percentage of inhabitants with migration background.
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/archiv/31.12.2006/2993319.asp
In the district of Berlin-Neukölln, Ali is on the 3rd place of the most popular baby names in 2006, Can on 7th, Arda (which I have never heard of) 21st and Muhammed 27th (Mustafa isn't mentioned at all!). On the girls' list, Nur is the only Islamic name on rank 15.
This article also suggests that migrant parents don't follow name trends to the same extent as German parents do. Hence their babies' names aren't as concentrated on a few popular ones and less likely to climb up the popularity charts. I'm not sure if that's logical - with the Turkish communities being so closely knit, surely trends must be created within that community!
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The Statistische Bundesamt counts 685,795 births in Germany in 2005, so you can reckon that 27,700 births would be, um, let's say around 4 %? (I'm terribly bad at maths.)
You can ask Knud Bielefeld, who comprised that list, if you have questions about his data collection: kontakt@kbielefeld.de It certainly would be interesting to know why there are nearly no Turkish names.
I also looked around online and I found these two articles:
http://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/berlin_nid_41385.html
According to an enquiry by the FOCUS magazine among the 12 registry offices in Berlin, Ali was on rank 10 among the most popular baby names in Berlin in 2006.
However, this site says the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache makes its list based on the data of registries in medium-sized and small towns - which have a lower percentage of inhabitants with migration background.
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/archiv/31.12.2006/2993319.asp
In the district of Berlin-Neukölln, Ali is on the 3rd place of the most popular baby names in 2006, Can on 7th, Arda (which I have never heard of) 21st and Muhammed 27th (Mustafa isn't mentioned at all!). On the girls' list, Nur is the only Islamic name on rank 15.
This article also suggests that migrant parents don't follow name trends to the same extent as German parents do. Hence their babies' names aren't as concentrated on a few popular ones and less likely to climb up the popularity charts. I'm not sure if that's logical - with the Turkish communities being so closely knit, surely trends must be created within that community!
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This message was edited 2/1/2007, 9:06 AM
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