der Name
Meaning in English: name
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Wie ist Ihr Name, bitte?
What is your name, please?
Der, die or das?
Name is masculine: der Name. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -e are usually die (170 of 193 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Name in the top 5,000
These forms of Name are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Wie schreibt man deinen Namen?
How do you spell your name?
How common is Name?
Name is number 1,418 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 65 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words. Its most frequent form is Namen (#625).
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,414vermitteltarranged, conveyed
- 1,415modernemodern
- 1,416übernommentaken over, adopted
- 1,417der Klimaschutzclimate protection
- 1,418der Namename
- 1,419das Umfeldenvironment, circle, surroundings
- 1,420lieberrather, preferably
- 1,421Gründereasons
- 1,422die Minuteminute
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,418
- The most common German nouns#529
- German A1 vocabulary#429
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#146
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.