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Alvin (given name) Alwin. Amadeus (name) Andreas. Ansgar (name) Anthon (given name) Anton (given name) Antony (name) Aribert.
One example of a prominent German-American male figure with a German first name is Leonardo DiCaprio. 100 German Boy Names. In Germany, it’s a tradition for a child to be given multiple first names.
About 13% of the German population today has names of Slavic origin. Many Austrians also have surnames of Slavic origin. Polish names in Germany abound as a result of over 100,000 people (including 130,000 "Ruhrpolen") immigrating westward from the Polish-speaking areas of the German Empire.
Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...
The most popular given names vary nationally, regionally, and culturally. Lists of widely used given names can consist of those most often bestowed upon infants born within the last year, thus reflecting the current naming trends , or else be composed of the personal names occurring most often within the total population .
The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards.
Name Citizenship Net worth Sources of wealth 32 Klaus-Michael Kühne Germany: 39.2 billion Kuehne + Nagel: 37 Dieter Schwarz Germany: 38 billion Schwarz Gruppe: 45 Reinhold Wuerth Germany: 33.6 billion Würth Group: 68 Stefan Quandt Germany: 27.3 billion BMW: 71 Susanne Klatten Germany: 26.5 billion BMW, Altana, Nordex, SGL Carbon: 118 Beate ...
Pages in category "Germanic masculine given names" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.