The logic of names can sometimes remind one of the joke in which a son asks his father, “Dad, why is my sister’s name Rosa?” To which the father replies “because mom likes flowers very much”. “Thanks, Dad,” says the child, “you’re welcome, Goku,” replies the father.
Fiction and reality or reality and humor an inch apart when some of the 27 Daenerys (after the Mother of Dragons from Game of Thrones) with an average age of 4.2 ask their parents for the origin of their name. The same goes for the 221 Aryas (of the Stark clan).
The National Statistics Institute (INE) annually updates the list of the most common names and surnames in Spain and also by region. And Madrid (like Spain) represents a paradigm shift exemplified through a transition from Antonio to Mateo.
Antonio is the most common name in the region: up to 65,478 people share a name with the Real Madrid defender named Rudiger. Antonio, we were talking about transition, is no longer among the favorites. In Spain Martín and Hugo are the most chosen, but in Madrid since 2020 the most common are Mateo, Lucas, Martín, Alejandro and Daniel.
On the girls’ side, in Spain Lucía and Sofía are the most common. And Madrid also follows this logic with Lucía, Sofía, Martina, Olivia and Paula completing the top five. The history is headed by María del Carmen with 84,162 people bearing that name.