Overview
- Sophia replaces Emilia as the most popular girls’ name, the first change at the top since 2022, with Emma rising to second.
- Noah remains the leading boys’ name for a sixth year, followed by Matteo and Elias in the nationwide ranking.
- Leo enters the national top ten for the first time; any influence from the new pope’s name remains uncertain.
- Regional lists diverge: Felix leads boys in Bavaria, Frieda and Emil top Mecklenburg‑Vorpommern, and Mohammed ranks highly mainly in Berlin/Brandenburg, Hesse and North Rhine‑Westphalia, plus sixth in Lower Saxony/Bremen.
- The ranking draws on ~260,000 birth records from 375 cities (about 40% of births), with a broader GfdS compilation to come and ongoing trends toward wider name diversity.