Andreas, Michael and Christian most often at the top
A total of 86 male first names are in the top 100 ranking of the job portal “Indeed”. Only in the ninth place does a female first name appear. With 3,430 people in an executive position in Germany, Katja is the most common female first name in the ranking.
With a share of more than two percent, most German managing directors in the Indeed ranking are called Andreas. A total of 7,530 people with this first name were at the top of the company. Second place goes to the first name Michael, which was found at the top of a company a total of 6,820 times. The top three is rounded off by the first name Christian, which has accompanied the position of a company boss 6,450 times in Germany.
With 6,220 mentions, the first name Thomas is fourth in the Indeed ranking. A 2017 report by the Allbright Foundation entitled “A Perpetual Thomas Cycle?” noted that the name Thomas was the most common name on the German board of directors on the boards of all listed companies on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, which were 93 percent male at the time.
These are the top 10 CEO names in Germany and their share of the total.
1st place: Andreas – 7,530 entries – 2.36%
2nd place: Michael- 6,820 entries – 2.14%
3rd place: Christian – 6,450 entries – 2.03%
4th place: Thomas – 6,220 entries – 1.96%
5th place: Alexander – 4,480 entries – 1.41%
6th place: Peter – 4,110 entries – 1.29%
7th place: Stefan – 4,070 entries – 1.28%
8th place: Frank – 4,070 entries – 1.28%
9th place: Katja – 3,430 entries – 1.08%
10th place: Martin – 3,270 entries – 1.03%
17th place: Antje – 2,520 entries – 0.79%
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24th place: Nicole – 2,030 entries – 0.64%
Ranking shows “surplus of men”
“Diversity makes companies better, more creative and more resilient. But there is still a great deal of homogeneity in Germany, especially in management positions, and above all there is a large surplus of men,” explains Alessandra Mahnecke, Senior HR Business Partner DACH at Indeed. “I can only advise all employers to increase the targeted recruitment of female talent – also at the top level.”
Statistics on which first names are represented how often in Germany are currently not known. Whether the general frequency or popularity of first names in the population correlates with their frequency within the Indeed ranking can therefore neither be excluded nor included at this point in time.
In total, Indeed has identified more than 20,000 different first names as part of the analysis, according to its own statement. That’s why the job portal advises you not to let that stop you from aspiring to the post of managing director, even if your first name isn’t Andreas, Michael or Katja.
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