Berlin (first name)
Berlin is both a female and a male given name .
Origin and meaning
The name originally comes from Berlin , the capital of Germany .
According to the local family book Öllingen (near Ulm), a man with the first name Berlin appeared in 1588 as a godfather in the Swabian Alb.
distribution
The name is not yet common in Germany. Two namesake are known: One who was born on October 12, 2012 in Berlin-Tempelhof and one who was born on December 22, 2012 in Sonneberg.
This name assignment was only possible because, according to the district court of Berlin-Schöneberg, such a name can be registered, provided that another gender-specific first name is chosen. This judgment concerned the first name London .
In the USA, the first name Berlin is mainly used as a male first name, it has only been used as a female first name since 1988. The only place in the TOP 1000 of the USA was in 1916 with 987th place for male first names.
Individual evidence
- ↑ first name in Berlin behindthename.com
- ^ Local family book Öllingen family report Barbara Maier. Verein für Computergenealogie eV, accessed on August 15, 2016 .
- ^ BZ Berlin from November 25, 2012
- ^ Resolution of the AG Berlin-Schöneberg of October 26, 2011 70 III 230/11
- ↑ StAZ 2012, 244-245
- ↑ First name statistics of the American social security SSA, the data are in the tar ball