The two most chosen names for babies born in Canary Islands in 2022, are Mateo and Valeria, according to a study and data published this Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
Nationally, Martín and Lucía were the preferred names, ahead of Mateo, Hugo and Leo for boys and Sofía, Martina and Valeria for girls.
Among the ten most repeated names for boys last year are also Lucas, Manuel, Alejandro, Pablo, Daniel and Álvaro, and for girls María, Julia, Paula, Emma, Olivia and Daniela.
In any case, the variety of names is so wide that the Martíns are only 1.9% of all children born in 2022 and the Lucías are only 2.2% of the girls who came into the world in Spain last year.
Martín was the most repeated male name in the records of most of the communities of the northern peninsula: Aragon, Asturias, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Galicia and the Basque Country. While in the Basque Country, only Markel, Julen, Oihan, Jon and Luka come close to Martín.
Two years being preferred
Mateo, who was the favorite in Spain in 2021, continued to be so last year in the Canary Islands, the Valencian Community, Madrid, Navarra and La Rioja; Hugo, who reigned in 2019 and 2020, was the first in Castilla-La Mancha and Murcia; and Manuel, one of the classics until the 80s, in relative recovery now, won in 2022 in Andalusia and Extremadura.
In Catalonia, the favorite for boys last year was Leo, followed by Nil, Marc, Pol, Jan and Biel, and in the Balearic Islands Marc, with an advantage over Pau, Lucas, Hugo and Alex.
As for girls, Lucía triumphed in ten of the 17 communities: Aragon, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha, the Valencian Community, Extremadura, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra, La Rioja.
María in Andalusia, Sofía in Asturias, Martina in the Balearic Islands, Valeria in the Canary Islands, Julia in Catalonia, Noa in Galicia and Ane in the Basque Country were the preferred female names in the other seven communities.
In Ceuta and Melilla they opted for Mohamed for boys and for Mariam and Sara, respectively, for girls.
