Based on the figures published this Thursday, July 3, 2025 by Statbel, the Belgian Statistical Office, Olivia and Noah are the two most given names to children born during the past year. With respectively 531 and 582 powers in 2024. Two first names that have attracted new parents for several years now.
The choice of first name is not trivial, underlines Bruno Humbeeck: “We will have to carry this first name. This is why it is important that parents see it as the fruit of a reflection. You should never lose sight of what led to choose a first name for your child because it is his first identity marker”. But the first name is not alone, it is even systematically accompanied by one or more nicknames which must be wary: “They are much more dangerous”.
The first names are a reflection of the air of time, fashion effects and even linguistic orientations as explained to us, in 2018, Elodie Razy, of the laboratory of social and cultural anthropology and professor of anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Uliège.
Is your first name still fashionable today?
The figures, over 30 years, of Statbel allow to have an idea of ​​the trends for most of the first names (provided that it was allocated at least 5 times over the year).
Arnaud (at random), was he still a first name attributed to newborns in 2024? Yes for 32 of them. It is a little more than in 2022 and 2023 … but it is ten times less than in 1997 when 370 boys received this first name.
Here are the most popular girl and boy names in 2024
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