The top 20 baby names in the Netherlands in 2013.

The Dutch seem to have a preference for short baby names.

Lena and Jakub are the most popular baby names in Poland for 2013. Lena replaces Julia at the top, after Julia was the most popular girl name for the previous 10 years. 

If you are an English speaker there are some interesting spellings of some popular names e.g., Jakub (Jacob) and Aleksandra (Alexandra).

The tables below show the 100 most common baby names given to girls and boys in Sweden in 2013.

For the third year in a row, Alice is the top baby name given to girls. William, the top baby name for boys over the last two years, has been taken over by Lucas in first place. The top 3 boy names in 2012 remain in the top 3 in 2013.

Babynames.biz think the mums and dads in Sweden have a lovely variety of boy baby names in their top 100.

Hundreds of characters appear in the plays of William Shakespeare. This is a rich source of names that can be used as baby names today. Babynames have studied these character's names and chosen our top 10 of the girl names and a top 10 of the boy names.

Tell us which Shakespearean character's names you like the most!