Maybe you sometimes fantasize about baby names. One person goes for a trendy name and the other goes for a golden oldie. But what were the most popular first names in Zoetermeer between 1975 and 1999?
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Every year, the Social Insurance Bank (SVB) publishes a list of the most popular children’s names. It recently published A.D the most popular baby names in our province of South Holland in 2023. The most popular girl names last year were Olivia, Julia and Sophie. The top three boy names were Noah, Zayn and Liam. But that’s about now: what were the most popular first names in Zoetermeer a long time ago?
Popular first names in Zoetermeer between 1975 and 1999
Because we are very curious about the popularity of Zoetermeer’s first names 25 years before the turn of the millennium, we have Dutch First Name Bank of the Meertens Institute sifted through. Below is a ‘top 10’ of the names of babies born in Zoetermeer from 1975 to 1999.
Girls:
- Laura (86 times)
- Maria (77 times)
- Anouk (61 times)
- Johanna (56 times)
- Anne (54 times)
- Kimberley (53 times)
- Lisa (52 times)
- Michelle (48 times)
- Tessa (44 times)
- Linda (41 times)
Boys:
- Kevin (108 times)
- Jeroen (93 times)
- Johannes (72 times)
- Thomas (66 times)
- Tim (62 times)
- Patrick (62 times)
- Dennis (59 times)
- Michael (59 times)
- Martijn (56 times)
- Tom (55 times)
These are very different names than we now see among the most popular children’s names!