Name News

A baby boy called Ġanni is the first child to be officially named using Maltese fonts after an IT system change that recognises letters in the national language.
For the first time since the system was digitised, Maltese characters can be included in the public registry and on I

Yay for Malta! Years ago, I mentioned that Malta was the only nation I knew of in which parents were not allowed to register baby names in the national language. Why couldn’t they? Because Ma…

Everything in the world has a name, from the tiniest element to the biggest planet.

New parents are always looking for the perfect name for their little baby, but one Maltese couple may have just created the most legendary name ever for a baby boy.
Every year Malta is treated to a new list of popular baby names, ranging from Joseph to Noah to Mia and Valentina.

It may have been only the second parliamentary sitting of the year, but any backlog built up over the Christmas recess did not stop Prime Minister Joseph Muscat from providing a spot of lighter information on Tuesday: the most popular baby names of 2018.In answer to a question by governmen

Emma and Luca are the most common baby names of 2017, according to information tabled in parliament this morning. 57 girls were named Emma and 54 boys were named Luca this year, the data reveals.

Luke and Elena were the most popular names given to newborns in Malta last year.
The National Statistics Office said there were 4,078 live births last year, down by 3.6 per cent over 2012. The majority - 52.4 per cent - were boys.
At five per cent, Luke (and its variants) was the most popular...

Zany ‘latter-day’ names can be eye-watering, but classical names remain the most popular, as this eight-year comparison shows

But if there's any bullying happening at school, the first thing that needs to be done is to teach the children from home, so hopefully bullying at school ends. Because, if the kids never heard the name Dnegel, then they hear their parents say it, it becomes a name like any else. That means any problems are coming from parents, and not from the name.

Any Sherlock can detect a number of things from my surname. Chetcuti is a clear indication that my ancestors bred cackles of baby chicks or that they used to laugh gently – like giggling chickens apparently – or that they used to be masters of the house.

Of course, not everything is passe

This week’s baby name news includes names celebrating life, a moniker that started as a joke, and what’s hot on the East and West Coasts and around the world.

Sometimes you’ll be walking down the street and you hear an “Over here Harry!” or “Look at that Sophie!” and you think to yourself, ah, there’s some normal children’s names, names I can actually pronounce. Then you turn around and you realise that the calls were for not for little children

Emma and Luca were the most popular baby names this year, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said.
Figures tabled in Parliament show that 57 children were named Emma this year, while 54 baby boys were named Luca.
The second most common name for boys was Ben, with 42 occurrences in the past year

Unfortunately, since Malta is a former British colony, it looks like trendy names popular in the rest of the anglophone world are the norm. A search for "Maltese names" mostly takes me to places that have recommendations for a Maltese dog and not a Maltese child. There are a few scattering of sources that offer…

Abby Sandel has lots of baby name news this week--including a new trend for boys' names and some interesting twin combos. - baby names

The good news is that the most popular children’s names last year were still the traditional ones: Luke, Elena and Matthew.
The bad news is that the public registry in 2013 still had its fair share of specially coined names which are hard to pronounce, like Zveyrone, Netsrik, Jaceyrhaer,...