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Dutch Top ABC (boys)
Just for fun, which do you like best, which least and which surprise you? Feel free to comment on any name. This is a list of the most popular name in The Netherlands for each letter. I'll list the girls in another post. Format = NAME (overall rank in 2017 in The Netherlands)Adam (16)
Bram (8)
Cas (53)
Daan (5)
Ezra (104)
Finn (4)
Gijs (24)
Hugo (22)
Imran (119)
Jesse (10) - Jesse is also a traditional Frisian name, which might help explain this
Kai (75)
Lucas (3)
Milan (7)
Noah (1)
Olivier (35)
Pim (54)
Quinn (45)
Ruben (33)
Sem (2) - The top 3 for S-names is: Sem, Sam, Siem
Thomas (13)
Umut (501) - It's also the ONLY U-name that has been used for more than 25 times coutning both boys and girls
Vince (36)
Willem (57)
Xavi (51) - Second place X-names is shared by Xavier and Xem. Yes, Xem!
Yusuf (186) - Second place Y-names is Youssef
Zayn (140)
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I see some Arabic names! Is there an Arabic/Middle Eastern population in the Netherlands?Anyway, I like:Ezra
Imran
Jesse
Lucas
Noah
Ruben
Zayn (may be biased, though, bc Zayn Malik lol)
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Yeah, some letters aren't that common in Dutch for a name to start with (like the Y and U) and then you suddenly see the Turkish / Arabic names pop up :) The Netherlands has a lot of people of Turkish and Moroccan decent, but also more recently some immigrants with Muslim backgrounds, which helps with the name popularity. Mohamed would've been the most popular M- name, if there weren't 4 common different spellings of it.
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Hi Mar !!!I'm not familiar with Dutch names but let me see..They generally seem pretty internation.Pim is the hidden gem of this bunch.I like Bram, Finn, Jesse, Kai, Quinn, Ruben, Xavi.
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