Names in Obwalden

8,125 first forenames across 1,638 recorded names, 2000 to 2025 – 0.46% of Switzerland.

What sets Obwalden (OW) 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
Sven	0.62%	0.136%	50
Nando	0.27%	0.068%	22
Severin	0.32%	0.080%	26
Remo	0.31%	0.080%	25
Mauro	0.34%	0.095%	28
Linus	0.47%	0.136%	38
Svenja	0.25%	0.083%	20
Fabienne	0.31%	0.104%	25
Sarina	0.30%	0.101%	24
Ramon	0.25%	0.091%	20
Jonas	0.90%	0.335%	73
Tamara	0.25%	0.092%	20
Ronja	0.38%	0.145%	31
Lynn	0.39%	0.158%	32
Sandro	0.30%	0.119%	24

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

Obwalden recorded 276 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	Julia	5
1	Lea	5
3	Lia	3
3	Lorena	3
3	Liv	3
6	Laura	2
6	Elin	2
6	Jana	2
6	Emilia	2
6	Emma	2

Boys

#	Name	That year
1	Emil	4
2	Elias	3
2	Nico	3
2	Matteo	3
2	Theo	3
6	Jonas	2
6	Luca	2
6	Linus	2
6	Andrin	2
6	Gian	2

Most given, 2000–2025

Girls

#	Name	Births
1	Julia	64
2	Lea	61
3	Leonie	55
4	Laura	50
5	Lara	50
6	Lena	48
7	Mia	48
8	Nina	42
9	Chiara	42
10	Lina	38
11	Elena	38
12	Fiona	37
13	Elin	36
14	Jana	35
15	Lia	35
16	Nora	34
17	Sara	34
18	Alina	33
19	Luana	32
20	Lorena	32

Boys

#	Name	Births
1	Jonas	73
2	Noah	63
3	Luca	61
4	Elias	61
5	Sven	50
6	Nico	48
7	Jan	47
8	Lukas	44
9	Dario	39
10	Linus	38
11	Joel	38
12	Tim	38
13	Julian	37
14	Simon	36
15	Nils	36
16	Andrin	36
17	Marco	35
18	Fabio	35
19	Robin	35
20	Livio	35

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.