Names of Belgium
3,019,523 births across 7,874 recorded names, 1995 to 2025.
The most common name in each region
Belgium publishes, year by year, every boy's and girl's name given 5 times or more in each of its 3 regions – the same list as for the country and cut off in the same place, which in the largest reaches a rank of 914. First place is below; the rest are on the pages of the names themselves. What was given fewer than 5 times was never published, and the threshold applies to each list separately, so these do not add up to the country and cannot be turned into a share of a region's births.
| Region | Boys | That year | Girls | That year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Noah | 381 | Olivia | 325 |
| Wallonia | Gabriel | 292 | Olivia | 197 |
| Brussels | Adam | 121 | Nour | 60 |
2025. The ranking has been published for 31 years, 1995 to 2025, and each of them ranks the 3 regions separately. Counting every one of those lists: for boys, Mohamed has come first 17 times, Adam has come first 12 times, Noah has come first 10 times; for girls, Laura has come first 15 times, Emma has come first 15 times, Léa has come first 13 times. Places are as published, which means they are shared: where two names tie the source prints both, and so does this.
The most common name in each province
Belgium publishes, year by year, every boy's and girl's name given 5 times or more in each of its 11 provinces – the same list as for the country and cut off in the same place, which in the largest reaches a rank of 352. First place is below; the rest are on the pages of the names themselves. What was given fewer than 5 times was never published, and the threshold applies to each list separately, so these do not add up to the country and cannot be turned into a share of a province's births.
| Province | Boys | That year | Girls | That year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels-Capital Region | Adam | 121 | Nour | 60 |
| Province of Antwerp | Noah | 101 | Olivia | 74 |
| Province of Limburg | Noah | 38 | Olivia | 39 |
| Province of East Flanders | Noah | 82 | Olivia | 82 |
| Province of Flemish Brabant | Noah | 79 | Olivia | 57 |
| Province of West Flanders | Noah | 81 | Olivia | 73 |
| Province of Walloon Brabant | Gabriel | 41 | Alice & Olivia | 26 |
| Province of Hainaut | Gabriel | 109 | Giulia | 66 |
| Province of Liège | Gabriel | 72 | Emma | 62 |
| Province of Luxembourg | Gabriel & Louis | 24 | Ambre | 16 |
| Province of Namur | Gabriel | 46 | Olivia | 41 |
2025. The ranking has been published for 9 years, 2017 to 2025, and each of them ranks the 11 provinces separately. Counting every one of those lists: for boys, Noah has come first 24 times, Gabriel has come first 23 times, Arthur has come first 18 times; for girls, Olivia has come first 41 times, Louise has come first 9 times, Emma has come first 9 times. Places are as published, which means they are shared: where two names tie the source prints both, and so does this.
Top of 2025
Common here, rare in America
Names Belgium gives often that the US records barely hold.
| Name | In Belgium | In the US |
|---|---|---|
| Wout | 6,137 | not recorded |
| Seppe | 5,747 | not recorded |
| Fien | 5,148 | not recorded |
| Senne | 5,075 | not recorded |
| Tuur | 3,485 | not recorded |
| Warre | 3,435 | not recorded |
| Lowie | 3,410 | not recorded |
| Jelle | 3,375 | not recorded |
| Jarne | 3,261 | not recorded |
| Ferre | 3,257 | not recorded |
| Tibo | 3,182 | not recorded |
| Siebe | 3,127 | not recorded |
| Thibaut | 2,855 | not recorded |
| Kaat | 2,720 | not recorded |
| Lennert | 2,614 | not recorded |
US figures are Social Security births since 1880; the Belgium figures cover 1995 onwards. The two are not the same measure and the columns are for comparison of scale, not subtraction.
Most given since 1995
Source: Statbel, First names for boys and girls. The first forename of every child born in Belgium, from the National Register. Statbel prints a name only from a frequency of five, so the tail below that is missing and what is here covers about four births in five - less in Brussels, where names are far more varied, than in Flanders. Spellings are as registered, so variants are counted separately, and ranks are as published, so tied names share a rank.