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From:	Arclight arclight@*********.de
Subject:	Name-German (couldn't resist : )
Date:	Tue, 10 Aug 1999 02:10:52 +0200

Message no. 1 Ok, as Wordman started filing names to
certain countries, I'll do my best to get you
dragged into "this land of ours" :)
German listmembers are free to correct me,
of course.

First of all, names like "Hans", "Kurt" or "Franz"
-AFAIK these are heavily encountered in US TV...)-
are not at all common here.

Names normally are "First name" "Family name"-style,
middle names are uncommon here, as are double
family names. Since about 1 1/2 years, you can opt
for a two-part family name when you marry, so
*maybe* this gets more regular in 2060.

Most common family names are

Meier (or Maier)
Müller (yeah, fancy Umlauts :)
Schmidt (Schmitt)

and some more, as three names for a whole
country are a bit small :)

Klein
Lorenz
Wagner
Baier
Fischer
Schäfer
Lange
Breuer

in the Rhein-Ruhr area, polish names are heavily
encountered, like

Koslowski
Szoltyscyk
Urbanski

or the like.

Male names are

Christian (number one for the last 5 years IIRC)
Michael
Jan
Matthias
Tobias
Thorsten
Stefan

Females go with

Julia
Christiane
Anne
Diana
Tina (often encountered in cheap sports cars :)
Sandra
Stefanie

You can also go with turkish, polish,
greek or italian family names and add a german
first name if you want, as those are big minorities
here.

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From:	Sascha Kriewel sascha.kriewel@****.ins.de
Subject:	Name-German (couldn't resist : )
Date:	Tue, 10 Aug 1999 03:15:08 +0200

Message no. 2 Hello, list :)

On 10 Aug 99, Arclight wrote about "Name-German (couldn't resist : )":

>
> Ok, as Wordman started filing names to
> certain countries, I'll do my best to get you
> dragged into "this land of ours" :)
> German listmembers are free to correct me,
> of course.

You asked for it ;)

> Names normally are "First name" "Family name"-style,
> middle names are uncommon here, as are double
> family names. Since about 1 1/2 years, you can opt
> for a two-part family name when you marry, so
> *maybe* this gets more regular in 2060.

Actually there has been a new law since 1994 that after a marriage both
partners can keep their own name, or use a common name. The partner who
gives up his or her name for the common name can add his/her old
surname to the common name.

> Klein
> Lorenz
> Wagner
> Baier
> Fischer
> Schäfer
> Lange
> Breuer

Becker, Bauer, Barthel, Kra(e)mer, Schroeder, Kuntz, Schmitz, Hausmann,
and Schneider are also very common family names. Basically you can
seldom go wrong with old German occupational names.

> Male names are
>
> Christian (number one for the last 5 years IIRC)

Not quite :) Though in 2060 this might well be true.

The ranking of most popular baby names for 1996 was
(sorry, I have no newer data):

Girls (Western / Eastern Germany)

1st Maria / Maria
2nd Julia / Lisa
3rd Katharina / Laura
4th Anna(Anne) / Anna(Anne)
5th Laura / Sophia
6th Maria / Julia
7th Sophie / Sarah
8th Lisa / Michelle
9th Sarah / Vanessa
10th Lena / Jessica

Boys (Western / Eastern Germany)

1st Alexander / Maximilian
2nd Lukas / Lukas
3rd Maximilian / Philipp
4th Daniel / Florian
5th Michael / Kevin
6th Christian / Max
7th Philipp / Felix
8th Marcel / Paul
9th Jan / Tom
10th Tobias / Erik

(compiled by the Society for the German language)

other popular names, that Arclight didn't already mention are
Alexander, Patrick, Dennis, Sebastian, Florian, Martin, or Sascha for
boys. No Franz, Hans, or Kurt, though. Sorry ;)

Ciao,
Sascha

--
Sascha Kriewel <sascha.kriewel@****.ins.de>

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