Europe is celebrating 2026 by welcoming a slate of non-European babies.

In Avignon, France, a baby named Zaïd was born around 1:30 a.m., according to French newspaper La Provence, making him the hospital’s first baby of the year. La Provence notes that Zaïd “means ‘growth’ or ‘prosperity’ in Arabic.” One way to gauge a foreign population’s hostility (or lack thereof) towards assimilation is by the names they give their children. A non-foreign name is a gift which costs no money, but nevertheless, is a somewhat costly symbol of appreciation towards one’s host country. In Mayotte, a small French overseas region, “[a]round 70 percent of the 10,000 babies born in the maternity hospital of Mayotte’s biggest town Mamoudzou are born to illegal migrants,” France 24 reported in 2018. (RELATED: Europe’s Left Whines As Christians Defend Christmas)

In Erlangen, Germany, a baby named Abdullah was the first to be born in 2026 at the Erlangen University Hospital,

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