Belgian Name Generator

How this list was compiled: Names and places: Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, 'First names for boys and girls': its two workbooks of first names given to newborn girls and boys in Belgium and in each region, births of 1995 to 2023 added together (the open-data page says a name is published from 5 occurrences). Statbel's own site answers scripts with a challenge page, so on 3 October 2026 the workbooks were read from the Internet Archive's copies captured 2024-12-09 (https://web.archive.org/web/20241209210336/https://statbel.fgov.be/sites/default/files/files/documents/bevolking/5.10%20Namen%20en%20voornamen/5.10.%203%20Voornamen%20meisjes%20en%20jongens/Firstnames_Girls_1995-.xlsx and the boys' workbook beside it). The list holds (a) the 40 most-given girls' names and the 40 most-given boys' names of each of the three regions, Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels, whole (170 names, since the regions share some); and (b) from places 41 to 250 of each region, only the names that no other name list of this site held, with or without their accents, when the list was built (so Jérémy and Mélissa are missing, because other lists hold Jeremy and Melissa). 391 names: 202 for girls and 189 for boys; 222 are in the first 250 of Flanders, 200 of Wallonia and 243 of Brussels, and 107 in all three. A card prints a band for each region where the name is in the first 250: top 10, top 40, top 100 or top 250. The bands are our own grouping of Statbel's places; the cards carry none of Statbel's figures. Accents are kept as Statbel writes them (Léa, Zoë, Chloé). The page sorts by region of birth and says nothing about any family. No family names are listed. Nobody who speaks Dutch or French has read the list. Licence: Source: Statbel (Directorate-general Statistics, Statistics Belgium), https://statbel.fgov.be. The cards carry our own bands and none of Statbel's figures. The selection and the bands are our own work.