Names of Austria AT

Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) records Julia as the commonest given name in Austria; the names that most distinguish Austria from the rest of the world are Florian, Lukas and Maximilian.

Written in German.

Population
8.9M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
60K
BBuilt from 2 official registers (2024), 59,879 name forms in our corpus, 11 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

fewerlarger share
Where the names most characteristic of Austria are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Austria included.

How names work in Austria

3 naming traditions are in use in Austria, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Austria

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 2
Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024), 2024 — 3,770 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Emilia9.6K—
2Emma13K81
3Marie13K—
4Anna33K—
5Sophia11K—
6Mia9.5K—
7Lena20K—
8Valentina11K—
9Lea13K79
10Laura20K38
11Hannah14K—
12Lina6.1K—
13Sophie17K53
14Johanna16K31
15Leonie14K72
16Nora5.5K—
17Luisa5.8K—
18Olivia4.1K—
19Lara11K93
20Elena9.6K101

Where the two lists disagree

24 of Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) 2024Across all recordsjulia: 37 → 12 · ranks higher across all records37. julia12anna: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. annanot rankedkatharina: 48 → 24 · ranks higher across all records48. katharina24sarah: 44 → 20 · ranks higher across all records44. sarah20laura: 10 → 38 · ranks lower across all records10. laura38lena: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. lenanot rankedsophie: 13 → 53 · ranks lower across all records13. sophie53johanna: 14 → 31 · ranks lower across all records14. johanna31leonie: 15 → 72 · ranks lower across all records15. leonie72christina: 250 → 21 · ranks higher across all records250. christina21hannah: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. hannahnot rankedlea: 9 → 79 · ranks lower across all records9. lea79marie: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. marienot rankedemma: 2 → 81 · ranks lower across all records2. emma81
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024), 2024 on the left; every record we hold for Austria on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Austria

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Austria holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

FlorianLukasMaximilianDominikKatharinaMatthiasChristophTobiasChristianManuelAndreasPhilippBernhardThomasVerenaLeonieEvaJosefSophieStefanJohannaFelixStefanieRaphaelMagdalenaFranzPatrickFabianMichaelaJonasJuliaSimonSarahSabrinaMarkusMartinSabineGeorgJakobCarinaWolfgangLucaMelanieDanielGerhardTanjaJulianIsabellaHannesMarcelMichaelNiklasMoritzLisaPeterDanielaKerstinNicoBettinaMartina
Sized by how much of the difference between Austria's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

JuliaAnnaKatharinaLisaSarah2024202436,900
Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024), 1984–2024 (41 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Michaelgiven name●
Stefangiven name●
Thomasgiven name●
Markusgiven name●
Alexandergiven name●
The best-attested names in Austria, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024headline (given)

    Statistik Austria. Counts: newborns. given. 3,770 forms. 1984–2024. Licence: Austrian Open Government Data (CC BY 4.0).

    What we know about this register

    National per-name newborn time series (1984–2024) from the STATatlas Vornamen WFS backend. count = SUM(absolut) over all years per (name, sex); latest year + rank retained. Diacritic-safe (ä/ö/ü). SEX 1=M, 2=F. Distinct from the OGD CSV source at-statistik-austria-vornamen, which carries regional (federal-state) breakdown but not a single-name lookup. Universe = 23,270 names from autocomplete; scrape is resumable (raw/AT/statatlas_trend/ per-name cache) — server effectively caps throughput ~190 names/min, so full enumeration is a multi-pass background job.

    Last verified 2026-06-04.

  • Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)2024

    Statistik Austria. Counts: newborns. given. 4,022 forms. 1984–2024. Licence: Austrian Open Government Data (CC BY 4.0).

    What we know about this register

    First names of newborns by federal state since 1984. Also accessible via interactive STATatlas map at https://www.statistik.at/atlas/vornamen/

    Last verified 2026-05-09.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Austria?
Julia, according to Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) (2024), with 36,900 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Austria?
Because they count different people. Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) (2024) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Julia. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Michael. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Austria?
No — 3 are described on this page (German, Romansh, Luxembourgish), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Austria”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/AT (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024).