Names in Nidwalden

8,918 first forenames across 1,770 recorded names, 2000 to 2025 – 0.51% of Switzerland.

What sets Nidwalden (NW) apart

Names given far more often here than in the rest of Switzerland. The cantons share a name pool – almost every name appears in all of them – so what separates them is proportion, not presence.

Name	Share here	Share elsewhere	Births here
Nando	0.31%	0.067%	28
Mauro	0.38%	0.095%	34
Remo	0.27%	0.080%	24
Anja	0.40%	0.124%	36
Lynn	0.50%	0.158%	45
Niklas	0.26%	0.084%	23
Linus	0.40%	0.136%	36
Silvan	0.40%	0.145%	36
Sarina	0.28%	0.101%	25
Kim	0.25%	0.092%	22
Lino	0.29%	0.110%	26
Jasmin	0.38%	0.145%	34
Dominik	0.30%	0.115%	27
Henry	0.25%	0.096%	22
Tom	0.25%	0.100%	22

Share of all first forenames given in the canton, against the same name's share across the other 25, over 26 years.

Top of 2025

Nidwalden recorded 349 births in 2025, so the leading name here was given a handful of times and the order between the top few is chance. The whole-period table below is the one that means something.

Girls

#	Name	That year
1	Mila	4
2	Lena	3
2	Elin	3
2	Livia	3
2	Emilia	3
2	Lia	3
2	Yara	3
2	Maria	3
2	Mira	3
10	Laura	2

Boys

#	Name	That year
1	Dario	5
2	Felix	4
3	Noah	3
3	Leon	3
3	Matteo	3
3	Nino	3
3	Enea	3
3	Maximilian	3
3	Mailo	3
10	Elias	2

Most given, 2000–2025

Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Laura	67
2	Lena	59
3	Lea	59
4	Alina	56
5	Julia	51
6	Elena	48
7	Mia	46
8	Nina	46
9	Lynn	45
10	Jana	44
11	Lara	44
12	Leonie	43
13	Lisa	42
14	Sara	41
15	Elin	39
16	Anna	39
17	Sarah	39
18	Chiara	37
19	Emma	36
20	Anja	36

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Elias	61
2	Dario	59
3	Noah	58
4	Luca	58
5	Jonas	56
6	Simon	53
7	Samuel	44
8	Jan	44
9	Leon	44
10	Tim	42
11	Andrin	42
12	Nico	41
13	Levin	41
14	Matteo	41
15	Gian	41
16	Fabio	40
17	Lars	38
18	Joel	38
19	Marco	37
20	Livio	37

Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, Vornamen der Neugeborenen. The same records as the national page, by canton. BFS publishes the four bilingual cantons and trilingual Graubünden split by language; those halves are added back together here, and the language cut keeps them apart. A canton is where the birth was registered. The same caveats as the national figures apply, because these are the same records.