Indexes of Given Names

The Most Popular Given Names for Finnish Speaking Girls Born in 1998 (All Names)

	Name	Number	% of all names
	Maria	2,810	10.64
	Emilia	1,699	6.43
	Sofia	1,292	4.89
	Katariina	967	3.66
5	Julia	947	3.59
	Johanna	945	3.58
	Eveliina	790	2.99
	Elina	759	2.87
	Karoliina	756	2.86
10	Kristiina	708	2.68
	Susanna	668	2.53
	Laura	543	2.06
	Iida	527	2.00
	Amanda	518	1.96
15	Anna	507	1.92
	Anniina	503	1.91
	Helena	494	1.87
	Roosa	483	1.83
	Jenna	475	1.80
20	Emma	472	1.79
	Annika	465	1.76
	Pauliina	462	1.75
	Anni	439	1.66
	Ida	434	1.64
25	Tuulia	423	1.60
	Noora	419	1.59
	Sara	419	1.59
	Aino	402	1.52
	Veera	383	1.45
30	Jasmin	368	1.39
	Total	21,077	79.83

The Most Popular Given Names for Swedish Speaking Girls Born in 1998 (All Names)

	Name	Number	% of all names
	Maria	181	0.69
	Sofia	112	0.42
	Alexandra	94	0.36
	Emilia	83	0.31
5	Elisabeth	76	0.29
	Anna	73	0.28
	Ida	68	0.26
	Linnea	64	0.24
	Johanna	59	0.22
10	Emma	55	0.21
	Amanda	50	0.19
	Helena	45	0.19
	Julia	44	0.17
	Elin	41	0.16
15	Margareta	39	0.15
	Matilda	39	0.15
	Kristina	35	0.13
	Hanna	32	0.12
	Victoria	30	0.11
20	Katarina	29	0.11
	Linnea	29	0.11
	Cecilia	28	0.11
	Alice	25	0.09
	Marie	25	0.09
25	Ellen	24	0.09
	Elisabet	23	0.09
	Janina	23	0.09
	Jessica	22	0.08
	Fanny	21	0.08
30	Jenny	21	0.08
	Lina	21	0.08
	Olivia	21	0.08
	Total	1,532	5.80

The Most Popular Given Names for Finnish Speaking Boys Born in 1998 (All Names)

	Name	Number	% of all names
	Juhani	1,737	6.31
	Mikael	1,718	6.24
	Johannes	1,472	5.35
	Aleksi	1,344	4.89
5	Matias	1,294	4.70
	Kristian	1,058	3.85
	Valtteri	1,026	3.73
	Oskari	1,013	3.68
	Petteri	1,002	3.64
10	Juho	782	2.84
	Santeri	768	2.79
	Olavi	762	2.77
	Tapani	739	2.69
	Antero	678	2.46
15	Ville	669	2.43
	Joonas	608	2.21
	Markus	608	2.21
	Tapio	573	2.08
	Eemeli	568	2.06
20	Ilmari	554	2.01
	Teemu	543	1.97
	Niko	540	1.96
	Antti	537	1.95
	Eetu	507	1.84
25	Lauri	500	1.82
	Jere	472	1.72
	Joona	469	1.70
	Sakari	461	1.68
	Tuomas	450	1.64
30	Jesse	448	1.63
	Total	23,900	86.87

The Most Popular Given Names for Swedish Speaking Boys Born in 1998 (All Names)

	Name	Number	% of all names
	Alexander	134	0.49
	Erik	104	0.38
	Mikael	103	0.37
	Johannes	101	0.37
5	Johan	91	0.33
	Emil	73	0.27
	Carl	69	0.25
	Sebastian	66	0.24
	Henrik	60	0.22
10	Karl	60	0.22
	Andreas	52	0.19
	Anders	50	0.18
	William	50	0.18
	Anton	49	0.18
15	Oskar	44	0.16
	Axel	43	0.16
	Benjamin	41	0.15
	Wilhelm	41	0.15
	Robin	37	0.13
20	Christian	36	0.13
	Daniel	36	0.13
	Jonathan	36	0.13
	Viktor	36	0.13
	Fredrik	35	0.13
25	Joel	33	0.12
	Kim	33	0.12
	Rasmus	33	0.12
	Gustav	32	0.12
	Oliver	32	0.12
30	Jan	30	0.11
	Jonas	30	0.11
	Total	1,670	6.07

In 1998 a total of 58,082 children were born. Names were given to 53,915 children, of which 26,308 were Finnish speaking girls, 1,457 Swedish speaking girls, 25,137 Finnish speaking boys and 1,668 Swedish speaking boys.

Source: The Population Register Centre / http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi/etunimsu.htm and http://www.vaestorekisterikeskus.fi/etunimsv.htm / 21.3.1999.