There are more and more girls named Arya and Daenerys in Spain thanks to ‘Game of Thrones’
‘Game of Thrones’ is so much a part of today’s culture that there are even many babies who begin to carry the names of their characters.
The fever of ‘ Game of Thrones ‘ has not left anyone indifferent, and is beginning to have its effects on the population of several countries. The names of their characters are ringing more and more in the registry offices and it is that parents cannot resist putting the name of their favorite character on their baby.
If we go to the latest official statistics published by the National Institute of Statistics , we can find which of these names are causing the most furor in Spanish families. Although we still don’t have many girls named Khaleesi or Cersei, or boys by the name of Tyrion or Eddard , our favorite characters are growing since the series premiered on HBO in 2011.
Index
ARYA
On January 1, 2016, there were 201 girls named Arya registered in Spain , and 202 in their version with Latin i, Aria , with an average age of 2.3 and 3 years , respectively. This shows the growing interest of mothers and fathers to name their daughters based on the series, especially if it is a nice, short name, easy to pronounce and also to write. And we talk about girls because there are no adult women by the name of Arya or Aria.
DAENERYS
The name of the Mother of Dragons is also hitting hard, and we find in the official statistics 41 girls, with an average age of 1.9 years, with the name of Daenerys. They are data until 2015, and it is possible that his name could grow with the popularity of the character in the series. However, Daenerys has always been a favorite of ‘Game of Thrones’.
JON
Jon is a more prevalent name in the Spanish population than his predecessors, but the Starks’ bastard son Jon Snow seems to have encouraged people to use his name more in recent years. In fact, in Spain there were 19,832 men with the name of Jon registered until 2015, with an average age of 23.3 years. But if we look at the statistics of newborns, between 2010 and 2013, every year Jon was in the top 100 of the most common names in Spain for boys, always having more than 400 cases, finding the peak in 2012, the year after to premiere the series. Now it seems to have gone down, having a year without reaching that top, and recovering the position in 2015, when 383 births with this name were registered.
IN THE UK ARYA AND KHALEESI TRIUMPH
Continuing with statistics from 2015, that year 68 babies named Khaleesi were registered in the United Kingdom , the name by which Daenerys Targaryen is known for having been the wife of Khal Drogo. 280 went to Arya, 11 for Sansa, 4 for Brienne and Catelyn, 6 for Lyanna, 40 for Yara and 6 for Daenerys in girls.
In children, 23 Jon, 64 Ned, 11 Bran, 14 Tyrion and Jaime and 6 Sandor were registered. There it is easier to use a name of this type because they have Anglo-Saxon origin, and many people would have similar names, although of course there should not have been many Khaleesis before the work of George RR Martin became popular and also became a series of television with HBO.
The name that does not seem to like much is that of Cersei, the bad guy of the film, but at the same time a very interesting character. The favorites of the readers of A Song of Ice and Fire , or viewers of its television version ‘Game of Thrones’, are Jon Snow (Jon Snow in English), Daenerys Targaryen and Tyrion Lannister.
If you had to name your son or daughter based on ‘Game of Thrones’, which one would you choose? What if it was another series, like ‘ Breaking Bad ‘, ‘ Mad Men ‘ or even ‘ The Big Bang Theory ‘?
Dr. Tabriella Perivolaris, Sara's mother and fan of fashion, beauty, motherhood, among others, about the female universe. Since 2018 she has been working as a copywriter, always bringing to her articles a little of her experience and experience as a mother and woman.
