GymnastPunk
+5
Level 80
Jul 28, 2012
Love this quiz! Any chance you'll be making more for other countries? :)
X2theB
+3
Level 14
Aug 1, 2012
Glad you like it. Not sure, cause it's pretty big and took a lot of time. But I'll try to add other countries.
Chinchilla
+2
Level 20
Oct 17, 2016
Please take my quizzes it is a friendly competition against my friend
jdiger101
+4
Level 20
Aug 2, 2012
99/103 I would have finished but ran out of time :(
kitshef
+4
Level 83
May 9, 2014
Interesting that Thomas and Tom are not considered the same, as they would be in England.
ander217
+3
Level 75
May 18, 2017
I was surprised that Thomas didn't automatically fill in Tom. Are they considered two separate names?
QRU
+3
Level 74
Feb 17, 2018
Usually, abbreviations are considered seperate names. Tom and Thomas, Max and Maximilian, Heinz and Heinrich. Some of them are accepted here together, though.
camus
+6
Level 78
Aug 13, 2018
Historically, Tom has been the short form of Thomas only in English-language countries, and when Germans started to use it a few decades ago many of them wouldn't even know the connection.
findus
+2
Level 22
Jan 10, 2015
you should accept Janik, Luka and Willhelm.
schnuederlue
+2
Level 67
Aug 30, 2018
I've never seen one of these. But I've seen lots of Jannik's, Luca's/Lukas', and Wilhelm's. So... no, they shouldn't be accepted.
rphxx
+4
Level 71
Mar 8, 2019
Luka is often though
cosmokim
+4
Level 65
May 22, 2015
ONly guessed Hans because of The Book Thief
arewethereyet421
+2
Level 14
May 22, 2015
It says Rolf twice....just saying
McLerristarr
+4
Level 62
May 23, 2015
You should accept more alternative spellings. I entered "Chris" but didn't get "Christian", and yet "Fred" was accepted for "Manfred" but not "Alfred".
kalbahamut
+7
Level 82
Jul 21, 2016
I did far better for 1890 than any other year. Gotta love the classics...
maxxxxxi
+3
Level 22
Oct 10, 2017
didn't even guess my own name d'oh
ivocado
+4
Level 18
Jul 12, 2018
I filled in the 1981 column completely with boys I went to elementary school with. Our parents were not very creative.
bert64
+5
Level 63
May 12, 2020
"Rheinhardt" is an uncommon spelling. Should be "Reinhard" first, "Reinhardt" second.
kaderschaufel
+4
Level 71
Jul 26, 2020
I believe most Germans would spell Philipp with double p in the end.
Quizmaster
+10
Level ∞
Mar 21, 2021
When people in China and Saudi Arabia start naming their kids Noah and Liam, we will know that Anglo cultural hegemony is complete.
TheChosen
+5
Level 72
Mar 22, 2021
No Muhammed?
SaorAlba
+5
Level 64
Mar 25, 2021
Feeling threatened? Don't support imperialist wars and you won't have millions of refugees seeking safety in western Europe.
driehoek25
+5
Level 66
Mar 28, 2021
I don't support warfare and I don't the want migrants here.
HBK97
+2
Level 75
Mar 29, 2021
Settle on mars then
AchillesFirstStand
+2
Level 78
Mar 28, 2021
35th most popular in 2020
DonTheLamplighter
+2
Level 84
Mar 22, 2021
Only got forty-nein. Footballers' names were useful, especially older players, as were WW II figures. Got 3 just from NFL kickers. The Red Baron helped, as did the dad from "The Sound of Music" and Blofeld from the James Bond movies. Didn't do particularly well, but this was fun.
Ok, who tried Adolf and was surprised?
JWatson24
+1
Level 71
Mar 28, 2021
Not in recent history--that name fell out of favor pretty quickly after WW2. But I would've thought it was a major German name in the earlier decades of the 1900s, especially in 1940 when Germany was completely indoctrinated with Nazism.
elbuho86
+4
Level 81
Mar 28, 2021
I sincerelly expected Fritz to be here...
determinedtobeatthis
+3
Level 68
Mar 28, 2021
and Franz
determinedtobeatthis
+1
Level 68
Mar 28, 2021
That was really interesting. Most of my ancestor are German/Swiss and I've been working on a genealogy chart, so I had lots of names to try. Didn't do all that well, though
jbro
+1
Level 66
Aug 16, 2021
Same!!!
Keith38
+5
Level 57
Mar 28, 2021
I thought some variation of Mohamed would be there because of Turkish immigrants. Didn't think Adolf would be there but still tried it of course.
EvanAviator
+1
Level 59
Mar 28, 2021
I DID NOT expect the top name for 2020 to be the same for US and Germany
jmellor13
+4
Level 67
Mar 28, 2021
There is a documented phenomenon called "Kevinism," by which Germans look down on people with "Anglo" names on the assumption that they are from lower-class backgrounds: https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/the-strange-german-disease-called-kevinism-can-a-lame-name-mess-up-your-life
Quizmaster
+3
Level ∞
Mar 29, 2021
That's interesting. We are highly judgmental about names here in the United States as well, but we don't have a term for it.
camus
+3
Level 78
Mar 29, 2021
Many people from the East were named Maik pre-1990. They wanted to have a fancy Anglo name like Mike but needed to alter it to make it look German. Now they're stuck with a name that is designated as Anglo and Eastern, which is a most unlucky combo.
scf
+2
Level 39
Aug 9, 2023
I also know someone named Meikel, same reason and situation.
dmck92
+2
Level 72
Mar 30, 2021
This is a thing in France as well.
Difluzi
+1
Level 80
Jan 2, 2023
I have literally never heard of this
Olivenear
+1
Level 22
Mar 29, 2021
I was doing well until i realized that this was for germany
Damangio
+2
Level 65
Mar 29, 2021
Wow, some of those are very...not German.
camus
+4
Level 78
Mar 29, 2021
Most of the stereotypical German names have gone out of style. A boy named Hans or Fritz or Wilhelm will stand out like a sore thumb. I once told a 20-something year old Helmut that he and my grandpa share the name. The poor guy was miserable. He can't go anywhere without someone telling him that his grandpa has the same name.
JackintheBox
+2
Level 79
Mar 31, 2021
I always tend to do better on the 'older' names than the more recent ones.
Arche
+1
Level 16
Mar 31, 2021
adolf was very popular in '37-44
Adaga
+3
Level 54
Apr 1, 2021
Popular german boy names now arent even German
Bring back Hans and Helmut
yag4mi333
+2
Level 34
Apr 7, 2021
how is franz not included 😩
JFM01
+1
Level 52
Jan 11, 2022
Surprised names like Josef and Ronny are missing. Guess they've only been popular in certain regions.
MungoJerry
+1
Level 53
May 7, 2022
Sad actual German names aren't even in the top 10 today
Zenelle
+1
Level 48
Jul 16, 2022
I tried to think of the most stereotypical German names... and still managed to miss off Hans -.-
Asturias
+1
Level 71
Oct 6, 2023
Got 32 thanks to football players and german politicians I could remember of
MCdoesgeography
+1
Level 67
Nov 21, 2023
70/99
Got Dirk and Marvin, blacked out on obvious choices like Wolfgang or Oliver.
Dann, that was hard.
