{"id":7165,"date":"2024-07-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=7165"},"modified":"2024-07-20T12:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T12:43:32","slug":"basque-fact-of-the-week-the-most-popular-names-in-bizkaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2024\/07\/21\/basque-fact-of-the-week-the-most-popular-names-in-bizkaia\/","title":{"rendered":"Basque Fact of the Week: The Most Popular Names in Bizkaia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\">Only a few generations ago, everyone in the Basque Country had, officially, Spanish or French names, an imposition of the Church and State. I&#8217;ve done some genealogy and this is the case going back centuries. I&#8217;ve heard that people often had unofficial Basque names or nicknames, but on their birth certificate or in the priest&#8217;s book of births, it was always Spanish or French. That changed after Franco&#8217;s death, when the resurgence of Basque culture also led to people giving their children names of Basque origin. Names like Itxaso, Aritz, Egoitz, Iratxe, and Ekain. That new reality is reflected in this list of the most popular names in Bizkaia, as collected by the agency INE and reported by the newspaper Deia. I often get queries about Basque names and maybe this list will serve as some kind of inspiration. For more context on Basque first names, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2020\/06\/28\/basque-fact-of-the-week-basque-first-names\/\">this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" src=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/names-01-300x254.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/names-01-300x254.png 300w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/names-01.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Names for girls<\/strong>: By far, Ane dominates the list. Ane has been the most popular name for girls since the 90s. Of course, not all of these names are of Basque origin. Lucia, Martina, and Sofia are not, I&#8217;m less sure about Maddi. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Frequency<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Ane<\/td><td>243<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>June<\/td><td>187<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>Izaro<\/td><td>182<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>4<\/td><td>Laia<\/td><td>179<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>Nahia<\/td><td>149<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td>Lucia<\/td><td>137<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7<\/td><td>Irati<\/td><td>133<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8<\/td><td>Malen<\/td><td>126<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9<\/td><td>Alaia<\/td><td>117<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>Martina<\/td><td>115<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>Naia<\/td><td>115<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12<\/td><td>Uxue<\/td><td>111<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13<\/td><td>Maddi<\/td><td>109<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14<\/td><td>Noa<\/td><td>107<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15<\/td><td>Elaia<\/td><td>106<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16<\/td><td>Haizea<\/td><td>105<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>17<\/td><td>Nora<\/td><td>103<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18<\/td><td>Izadi<\/td><td>92<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19<\/td><td>Sofia<\/td><td>90<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>20<\/td><td>Jare<\/td><td>87<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Names for boys<\/strong>: The top name right now is Markel, though Oihan and Jon are not so far behind &#8211; the disparity between the most popular names isn&#8217;t nearly as great as it is for girls. Further, over the years, there has been more movement in the most popular name. Jon and Iker used to be at the top of the list and, while Jon is still near the top, Iker has dropped near the bottom of this list. The only name that isn&#8217;t Basque on this list is Martin, though not all of the other names are native to Basque.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Rank<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Frequency<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1<\/td><td>Markel<\/td><td>237<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2<\/td><td>Oihan<\/td><td>213<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>Jon<\/td><td>208<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>3<\/td><td>Julen<\/td><td>208<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>5<\/td><td>Martin<\/td><td>194<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>6<\/td><td>Ander<\/td><td>167<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>7<\/td><td>Aimar<\/td><td>164<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>8<\/td><td>Luken<\/td><td>160<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>9<\/td><td>Aiur<\/td><td>155<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10<\/td><td>Oier<\/td><td>152<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11<\/td><td>Ibai<\/td><td>142<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>12<\/td><td>Danel<\/td><td>139<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>13<\/td><td>Izei<\/td><td>133<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>14<\/td><td>Mikel<\/td><td>128<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>15<\/td><td>Luka<\/td><td>123<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>16<\/td><td>Unax<\/td><td>112<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>17<\/td><td>Amets<\/td><td>106<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>18<\/td><td>Peio<\/td><td>103<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19<\/td><td>Iker<\/td><td>91<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>19<\/td><td>Izan<\/td><td>91<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-background\">A full list of all of Buber&#8217;s Basque Facts of the Week can be found in the <a href=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/basque-fact-of-the-week-archive\/\">Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Primary source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deia.eus\/bizkaia\/2024\/05\/16\/nombres-nino-nina-mas-usados-bizkaia-8242570.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3IPmq2UUq3pIQxZWEPsGNi5k89OYrjm85aBV8T93IfUzJk5AKDKmsuMrc_aem_ARfRudPifDA9rsVG8uaupuzSYwN4Kekeu9FpxrAvElZ05qPD-lOt1wUhdsHG9dGTs2wi0BX17qtGMOjopOe7mPYq\">Los nombres cl\u00e1sicos en euskera triunfan entre los ni\u00f1os vizcainos<\/a><\/em>, Deia.eus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a few generations ago, everyone in the Basque Country had, officially, Spanish or French names, an imposition of the Church and State. I&#8217;ve done some genealogy and this is the case going back centuries. I&#8217;ve heard that people often had unofficial Basque names or nicknames, but on their birth certificate or in the priest&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[836,8,14],"tags":[3974,3973,859],"class_list":["post-7165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basque-fact-of-the-week","category-euskadi","category-euskara","tag-boys","tag-girls","tag-names"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/names-01.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-1Rz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7203,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7165\/revisions\/7203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}