Babies do not understand calendars and when they decide to be born, they come into the world when it comes time, even in the New Year. While everyone is eating the grapes and celebrating the entrance of the new year in some part of the world, a child is born, probably the first of the year, a fact that generates a lot of expectation and is news every January 1 on the news. Although without a doubt, the best news is for parents who, after months of waiting, receive their baby at the beginning of the year.
The first babies of 2019 have already been born in Spain and in other parts of the planet. We tell you some curiosities about children born on New Years around the world and what they will be called.
New Years babies around the world
According to Unicef, a total of 1,062 babies will be born in Spain on New Year’s Day 2019, which represents 0.2 percent of the 395,072 babies that could be born on January 1 worldwide.
Most likely, the first baby will be born in Fiji and the last, in Hawaii, in the United States. A quarter of the babies will be born in South Asia. However, it is curious that half of the babies that will be born today will do so in only eight countries .
In India, 69,944 babies will be born, in China, 44,940, in Nigeria, 25,685, in Pakistan, 15,112. In Indonesia, 13,256 children will reach the world, in the United States, 11,086, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 10,053 and in Bangladesh, 8,428 babies.
If we talk about cities, in Sydney 168 babies are expected to be born on the first day of the year, 310 in Tokyo, 605 in Beijing, 166 in Madrid and 317 babies in New York.
For its part, always according to data from Unicef, in Europe it is expected that 2,116 children will be born today in France, 1,903 in Germany, 1,335 in Italy, 219 in Austria, 348 in Belgium, 325 in Sweden, 236 in Switzerland or 168 in Norway.
2019 baby names
The statistics of the most popular names allows us to know which will be the most chosen names by parents for their babies in 2019.
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The most common names around the world are Alexander and Ayesha , and Zixuan and Zainab .
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In Argentina, the most popular are Lorenzo and Benicio for boys and Italian names triumph for them: Francesca and Isabella are among the most popular for girls.
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In Chile, Mateo and Agustín for children; Agustina and Sofía for girls.
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In Colombia, Luciana, Salomé, and Isabella are the most popular among girls, while Matías, Emiliano, and Santiago are among boys.
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For their part, the most popular names for babies born in Spain will be Lucas, Sofía, Hugo and Lucía , the ones that are preferred in recent years by Spanish parents.
The first babies of the year in Spain
Every year, the news talks about the first baby of the year, although for many it is something quite difficult to verify. Is there a reporter in every hospital waiting for the birth? What if the baby was born at home? Are all hospitals required to report it, even if parents do not want it to be made public that their baby is the first baby of the year? If he is born in a small town, would we still find out?
Reasonable doubts aside, officially the first baby in Spain is called Carolina María , a girl who was born in Zaragoza at 00.00 o’clock in the Maternal-Infant Hospital of the Aragonese capital. Around eight o’clock the mother began to feel the first signs of labor, and four hours later the little girl, her second daughter, arrived in the world.
Five minutes later, Lucas was born in Malaga, the first baby in the Andalusian community. Just a minute later, at 00:06 Lola was born in Alicante. Eight minutes after midnight, Alejandra arrived in the world in Murcia, and Iker in Euskadi. Thirteen minutes after the chimes Emma was born in Barcelona, and Liam was born in Badajoz seven minutes later.
Mauro was the first baby born in Asturias in 2019, at 00:43. A minute later Samuel was born in Logroño and ten minutes before 1 in the morning he arrived at Mía in Madrid. Although the first baby born in the capital of Spain has been another girl who came to the world at 00.31 in Getafe.
Sol is called the first girl in Cantabria and Tomeu the one from the Balearic Islands, born in Mallorca half an hour after one o’clock.
Via | UN and UNICEF
