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Emma, Oscar, Saga and Konrad: Denmark’s 50 most popular baby names for girls and boys

Emma and William are the preferred choices of name for newborn babies in Denmark.

Published: 15 July 2020 16:59 CEST
Emma, Oscar, Saga and Konrad: Denmark’s 50 most popular baby names for girls and boys
File photo: Ida Marie Odgaard/Ritzau Scanpix

The two names – which have regularly featured at the top of the list in recent years – were the most commonly-chosen for baby girls and boys in 2019, according to a newly-released tally from Statistics Denmark.

There are 486 new Emmas in Denmark following 2019’s births. The name was accompanied in the top five for girls by Alma, Clara, Freja and Sofia.

William, which was consistently the most popular choice for boys throughout the late 2010s, was given to 568 babies in 2019. Alfred, Oscar, Noah and Karl were the other top-five choices.

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Some regional variation can be seen on the Statistics Denmark list. Although William and Emma were most popular in three out of the five administrative Regions, neither name topped the list in Copenhagen’s Capital Region, where Nora and Arthur were the first choices.

In North Jutland, meanwhile, Ida was the most popular girl’s name and Lucas top pick for boys.

 

Statistics Denmark also notes which names have seen the biggest increase in popularity during the 12 months covered by the updated stats.

Here, the biggest mover for boys is Anker, now the 33rd-most popular name after being at no. 47 the year before. For girls, Asta moved 26 places up the list to no. 16.

Top 50 baby names in Denmark in 2019

 

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BUSINESS

The 14 struggling Danish towns given a break from regulation

Deserted town centres and struggling businesses are common traits in 14 Danish towns which will now be exempted from a number of regulations to give them a better chance of revival.

Published: 6 October 2023 17:03 CEST
The 14 struggling Danish towns given a break from regulation

The 14 towns will be “set free” from certain rules and regulations in a trial scheme aimed at reviving them after years of decline.

The launch of the scheme was announced by the Ministry of Ecclesiastical Affairs on Friday, and means that, for example, towns will be permitted to give extra subsidies to business owners who want to rent currently-empty town centre units.

They will also be allowed to cut down protected forest if it has taken the form of scrub and stops the town from feeling congruous; and to rent out empty commercial premises as housing in town centres.

The towns included in the trial are: Assens, Faaborg, Grindsted, Hornslet, Ikast, Nordborg, Nykøbing Sjælland, Odder, Otterup, Rødekro, Rønne, Sakskøbing, Støvring and Vamdrup, after their applications to the trial scheme were accepted.

A political agreement from 2021 paved the way for the new deregulation scheme the towns will hope to benefit from. The scheme is reported to cost the government 130 million kroner.

“I’m very much looking forward to seeing the result. I hope that this will be a part of what puts more life into the centre of medium-sized Danish towns,” the minister for rural districts Louise Schack Elholm said in a statement.

“This is a number of different initiatives, nine in total, that we are making as legal exemptions,” Elholm said.

Some 32 towns initially applied for the scheme.

“It’s incredibly good to see how many municipalities are interested in getting more life into their town centres. The plan was for 10 towns to be selected but there were so many good projects that we agreed on 14 towns,” she said.

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