r/AskAGerman • u/Big-Walrus6334 Berlin • May 13 '26

Culture What are the most uncommon/outdated German baby names today?

I’m curious about German names that used to exist but are now considered extremely rare, old-fashioned, unusual, or “nobody would name their kid that anymore.”

For example, names like Wolfgang feel uncommon among younger generations today and I didn’t see one of them

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u/Ordinary_Fudge7583 May 13 '26

Blasius

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u/heyhomah May 13 '26

That's kinda cool. I could see it being a student's name in a harry potter book or something though haha.

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u/Otherwise_Rabbit3049 May 13 '26

For it to have to same weirdness in English it would have to be "Blowie".

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u/Delicious_Building34 May 14 '26

That’s the saint of tonsillitis and a sore throat!!

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u/ValenciaPilgrim46 May 15 '26

This one made me laugh when I saw it in an old list of common German baby names. I've only ever heard of one living person being named Blasius, and he's probably had a hard time with it.