Choosing the baby's name can be a complicated task, especially when the parents do not agree. Therefore, some families end up choosing to let fate decide, or to put their children on name of a character they admire, either fiction or real.
Characters from the Game of Thrones series, soccer players, singers or cartoons are behind many of the names of boys and girls registered by the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Do you want to meet them?
Game of Thrones
The Game of Thrones series has been inspiring since 2012 the parents of girls from the United States and the United Kingdom, where there has been a considerable increase in the names Khaleesi and Arya respectively.
Since the series was released, in the year 2.012, the influence of the female names Daenerys and Arya, has been felt especially in our country.
Daenerys: There are 41 girls who bear this name in Spain according to the INE data and with an average age of 1.9 years.
Arya: This name has been putting on for some time. There are 201 girls registered as Arya and with an average of 2.3 years.
Other TV series
The influence of the names of television characters is not something exclusive to Game of Thrones, as other recent series such as The Walking Dead or mythical such as Friends and Feeling of Living also set or marked a trend in their day.
Feeling of Living, it was released in 1990 and lasted on screen for ten years. The names of their main characters, Brenda, Kelly, Brandon and Dylan, experienced a significant increase during that decade. Not surprisingly, the average age of girls named Kelly and Brenda is 23.5 years and 24.6 years, respectively.
Brenda: 392 girls were enrolled under the name of Brenda in the 80s, a figure that shot up to 1,154 in the 90s, coinciding with the premiere of the series.
Brandon: Children with Brandon's name in the 80s were only five. After the premiere of the series, the figure increased to 218.
Dylan: The same happened with the name of Dylan, although this has continued to set a trend in later decades.
The mythical series, Friends premiered in 1994 and lasted on the air for ten years. At this time the name of one of his most beloved characters began to sound among the girls:
- Phoebe: a total of 58 girls with an average age of 15.8 years, bear this name. Before the premiere date of the series there was no "Phoebe" registered in the INE.
In 2010 the series The Walking Dead was released and the name of one of its most beloved characters has begun to sound on the INE lists, and is emerging as one of the ones that will set a trend in this 2017:
- Daryl: Although the average age of the boys who bear this name is 17, in the 2000s there were only 16 children named that way. After the premiere of the series, and without having finished this second decade, there are already 24 registered under the name of Daryl.
The Lord of the rings
The triology of "The Lord of the Rings" premiered in Spain in 2001 at the rate of one movie a year. And since then, two female and one male names have emerged that have begun to sound:
Arwen: The name of Arwen, character played by Liv Tyler, is registered in the INE a total of 122 times and the girls who wear it have an average age of 6.7 years.
Galadriel, on the other hand, has been put 47 times but the average is 15.2 years, that is, it began to put in full fever of these film premieres.
Viggo: This child's name is registered a total of 45 times, being the average age of 16.7 years. Viggo Mortensen was the actor who played Aragorn, one of the most beloved characters in triology.
Star Wars
Star Wars is another sagas that has inspired the names of many children in Spain, although at different times and with different frequency.
Han Y Luke, with an average age of 18.6 years and 17.4 years respectively, they are around a hundred boys. The original trilogy was released in the 80s but "The Phantom Menace" came to the screens in 1999; just 18 years ago.
Leia, meanwhile, is a name that has not lost bellows in recent years, so the average age of the girls who wear it (405 in total) is 7.6 years.
Other movie characters
Neo: a total of 297 children with an average age of 6.6 years, bear this name. The influence, no doubt, is given by the character of Matrix played by Keanu Reeves. Before 1999, the premiere date of the first film in the trilogy, there is no record of this name among Spanish children.
Beautiful: Bella's name began to sound loudly in 2010, two years after the premiere of the first film in the Twilight saga, whose protagonist bears this name. The number of girls named Bella in the 2000s was only 85, a figure that rose to 180 from the year 2010.
Cartoon characters
Snow White It is one of the best-known Disney classics of the 40s and 50s. Although this girl's name stopped being put in Spain from the 80s, the influence that the animated character had on the girls of the generations is very significant previous.
Heidi: This animated series was released in Spain in 1975 and the name increase was very noticeable throughout the 70s and 80s. There are currently 484 women called Heidi with an average age of 38.2 years.
Ariel: The name of the Little Mermaid began to sound in the 90s, coinciding with the premiere of the Disney movie. Currently, the average age of girls named Ariel is 23 years old.
Singers
Shakira: The singer Shakira began playing in Spain 17 years ago, although the average age of the girls who bear her name is 12.2 years. In total there are 615 Shakiras in our country.
Chenoa: This female name of animal origin is currently carried by 267 girls with an average age of 12.8 years. Before the premiere of Operación Triunfo in 2001 (television show where singer Chenoa was announced), no girl with that name had registered in Spain.
Rhiana or Rhianna: both versions of this name are carried by a total of 161 girls in our country. Singer Rihanna rose to worldwide fame in 2007, which would explain that the average age of girls named Rhiana is 10 years.
Kylie: 26 girls in Spain are named after Kylie, and their average age is 15.5 years coinciding, curiously, with the worldwide fame that singer Kylie Minogue obtained in the 2000s.
Football players
Iker: Although this name of Basque origin can be considered common and does not respond to any fashion, the INE shows a great increase in the 2010s, when of the 3,600 Iker that was in Spain it went to 19,174, coinciding with the worldwide fame of the goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
Zidane: Currently there are 34 children called Zidane in our country and their average age is 16 years, coinciding on date with the signing of the Zinedine Zidane footballer for Real Madrid.
Neymar: A total of 137 children with an average age of 2.3 years are named after the footballer Neymar, popular in our country in the last four years for having played at F.C Barcelona.
Lionel or Leo: Children with the name of Lionel or its short version, Leo, have increased significantly in the last decade coinciding with the popularity of the F.C Barcelona player, Leo Messi. In the year 2000, the children with the name of Lionel in our country were 145, a figure that amounted to 234 from 2010. The increase is much more noticeable with the diminutive Leo, which has gone from 1,621 children in the decade of 2,000 to 9,810 from 2010.
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