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Georgi and Maria are the most common names in Bulgaria in 2024

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The most common names in Bulgaria in 2024 were Georgi (140,818) and Maria (100,651). They are followed by Ivan and Ivanka, and then - Dimitar and Elena, according to NSI data.

Among newborns last year, the most popular name for girls was Victoria (538 newborns), and for boys - Georgi (782 newborns). In second place were Maria and Alexander, and in third - Sofia and Martin.

The most numerous were the people with names of flowers that celebrate their name day on Palm Sunday (Tsvetnitsa in Bulgarian, the day of flowers)  - nearly 340 thousand.




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