That list is almost exclusively old fashioned names, which, combined with the website name makes me wonder if they’re scraping obituaries for the names. I’ve lived here for most of a decade and I’ve never met a Wolfgang or Ursula under 60 (actually of the top ten, I only know young people named Michael, Peter, Thomas, and Maria). I do know several older Wolfgangs and Helgas, so they certainly were common names at one point-the data might just be 80 years delayed. Actually going through it, all of my husband’s older family members’ names are in the top thirty.

I know at least five Daniels in their 20s and 30s though. I’m a) an immigrant, and b) just going off of my own experience, so take that with a grain of salt.

Quick aside about Maria as a man’s name: it’s traditionally Austrian, afaik, and it’s more commonly a second name (like Rainer Maria Rilke), but there’s no chance that 0% of the Marias in Germany are men.

I was kind of expecting that question, there is actually an official listing of the most popular German names for babies every year. Goes back a few decades: gfds.de/vornamen/beliebteste-vornamen/#topten

Daniel is among the top ten in almost every year up to 2000. After that it is other names taking over but I didn’t check where Daniel lands, might have been top 20 or top 50 still.

Seeing as the guy in the ad is not likely under 20, Daniel isn’t a weird choice of a name. Certainly better than Klaus or Reinhardt.