If it's a girl, Lucía. If it's a boy, Lucas. These were the most chosen names by parents of girls and boys born in Spain last year 2017, according to data provided this week by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) on the names of newborns.
Of the 190,029 girls born in 2017 in Spain, a total of 4,410 received the name Lucía. The second most popular name was Sofía (4,206 girls), while María (3,874) was the third.
The top ten positions were completed with the names Martina, Paula, Julia, Daniela, Valeria, Alba and Emma.
In the case of boys, there were a total of 201,901 births and the most popular name was Lucas (4,209 boys), ahead of Hugo (4,141) and Martín (3,838).
Daniel, Pablo, Alejandro, Mateo, Adrián, Álvaro and Manuel completed the list of the ten most popular newborn boy names in 2017.
The following two graphs show the list of the hundred most frequent girl and boy names among newborns in Spain throughout the year 2017: