Did you ever wonder what the popular baby names were decades ago? How about German names? Check out these most popular baby names in Germany in the 1940s!
| Rank | Girls | Boys |
| 1 | Karin | Hans |
| 2 | Renate | Peter |
| 3 | Monika | Klaus / Claus |
| 4 | Ursula | Wolfgang |
| 5 | Ingrid | JŸrgen |
| 6 | Helga | Dieter |
| 7 | Gisela / Giesela | Manfred |
| 8 | Elke | Uwe |
| 9 | Brigitte | GŸnter / GŸnther |
| 10 | Christa / Krista | Horst |
| 11 | Hannelore | Bernd / Berndt |
| 12 | BŠrbel | Karl / Carl |
| 13 | Barbara | Werner |
| 14 | Erika / Erica | Heinz |
| 15 | Jutta | Rolf |
| 16 | Christel / Kristel | Rainer / Reiner |
| 17 | Heike | Gerhard |
| 18 | Marion | Helmut / Helmuth |
| 19 | Angelika / Angelica | Michael |
| 20 | Inge | Gerd / Gert |
| 21 | Anke | Joachim |
| 22 | Marianne | Holger |
| 23 | Heidi | Walter / Walther |
| 24 | Marlies / Marlis | Reinhard / Reinhardt |
| 25 | Ute | Harald |
| 26 | Waltraud / Waltraut | Herbert |
| 27 | Sigrid / Siegrid | Jens |
| 28 | Maria | Norbert |
| 29 | Ingeborg | Ulrich |
| 30 | Rosemarie | Wilfried / Willfried |
| 31 | Birgit | Hartmut |
| 32 | Rita | Volker |
| 33 | Margrit | Kurt / Curt |
| 34 | Heidemarie | Sigfried / Siegfried |
| 35 | Gabriele | Ernst |
| 36 | Gudrun | Rudolf / Rudolph |
| 37 | Eva | Lothar |
| 38 | Margret | Thomas / Tomas |
| 39 | Antje | Hermann |
| 40 | Gerda | Frank |
| 41 | Doris | Detlef / Detlev |
| 42 | Ilse | Georg |
| 43 | Elisabeth | Wolf |
| 44 | Annegret | Heinrich |
| 45 | Dagmar | Ingo |
| 46 | Petra | RŸdiger |
| 47 | Edith | Jšrg |
| 48 | Hildegard | Bernhard |
| 49 | Sabine | Udo |
| 50 | Irmgard | Josef / Joseph |
| 51 | Heidrun | Alfred |
| 52 | Irene | Ralf / Ralph |
| 53 | Christine | Friedrich |
| 54 | Regina | Erich |
| 55 | Uta | Dirk |
| 56 | Heide | Wilhelm |
| 57 | Astrid | Eckard / Eckart / Eckhard |
| 58 | Silvia / Sylvia | Franz |
| 59 | Roswitha / Roswita | Paul |
| 60 | Anneliese / Annelise | Willi / Willy |
| 61 | Anna | Axel |
| 62 | Ruth | Christian / Kristian |
| 63 | Susanne | Jan |
| 64 | Vera / Wera | Erwin |
| 65 | Margot | Dietmar |
| 66 | Evelin / Evelyn / Eveline / Evelyne | Fritz |
| 67 | Angela | Jšrn |
| 68 | Ilona | Martin |
| 69 | Ulrike | Otto |
| 70 | Traute | Dietrich / Diedrich |
| 71 | Christiane / Kristiane | Andreas |
| 72 | Ursel | Karsten / Carsten |
| 73 | Ellen | Roland |
| 74 | Annemarie | Harry / Harri |
| 75 | Elfriede | Lutz |
| 76 | Edeltraut / Edeltraud | Johann |
| 77 | Beate | Alexander |
| 78 | Lieselotte / Liselotte | Eberhard |
| 79 | Gertrud | Mohammed / Mohamed / Muhammed |
| 80 | Edda | Johannes |
| 81 | Margarethe / Margarete | Robert |
| 82 | Maren | Reinhold |
| 83 | Dorothea | Richard |
| 84 | Hella | Heino |
| 85 | Margit | Ronald |
| 86 | Silke / Sylke | Heiner |
| 87 | Annelie / Anneli | Winfried |
| 88 | Anita | Adolf |
| 89 | Anne | Erhard |
| 90 | Sibylle / Sybille | Jochen |
| 91 | Sonja | Stefan / Stephan |
| 92 | Frauke | Edgar |
| 93 | Marie | Olaf / Olav |
| 94 | Irmtraud / Irmtraut | Burghard / Burghardt / Burkhard / Burkhardt |
| 95 | Dšrte / Dšrthe | Egon |
| 96 | Brigitta | Ali |
| 97 | Christina / Kristina | Bodo |
| 98 | Marita | Fred |
| 99 | Sieglinde / Siglinde | Victor / Viktor |
| 100 | Gunda | Bruno |
| 101 | Gitta | Mehmet |
| 102 | Carla / Karla | Heiko |
| 103 | Johanna | Knud / Knut |
| 104 | Wiebke / Wibke | Hubert |
| 105 | Carmen | Hartwig |
| 106 | Adelheid | Henning |
| 107 | Kirsten | Gunter / Gunther |
| 108 | Hanna / Hannah | John |
| 109 | Katharina / Catharina / Katarina | Wolfram |
| 110 | Lidia / Lydia | Waldemar |
| 111 | Regine | Albert |
| 112 | Irma | Henri / Henry |
| 113 | Carola / Karola | Arno |
| 114 | Dorit | Matthias |
| 115 | Veronica / Veronika | Antonio |
| 116 | Edelgard | Ahmed / Ahmet / Achmed / Achmet |
| 117 | Marlene | Christoph |
| 118 | Karen / Caren | Ulf |
| 119 | Gerlinde | Ekkehard / Eckehard |
| 120 | Brunhilde | Jose |
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