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Names in Romansh-speaking Switzerland

3,718 first forenames across 964 recorded names, 2000 to 2025 – 0.21% of Switzerland.

What sets Romansh apart

Names given far more often here than in the rest of Switzerland. The language regions 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
Gianna 0.56% 0.061% 21
Mauro 0.70% 0.095% 26
Laurin 0.94% 0.172% 35
Gian 0.97% 0.243% 36
Andrin 0.78% 0.203% 29
Livio 0.78% 0.212% 29
Selina 0.67% 0.210% 25
Valentina 0.65% 0.208% 24
Fabio 0.75% 0.251% 28
Nino 0.62% 0.213% 23
Elia 0.70% 0.252% 26
Lorena 0.54% 0.197% 20
Luana 0.65% 0.258% 24
Nico 0.75% 0.338% 28
Leandro 0.65% 0.299% 24

Share of all first forenames given in the language region, against the same name's share across the other 3, over 26 years.

Top of 2025

Romansh-speaking Switzerland recorded 122 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

#NameThat year
1Lea2
1Ladina2
1Sofia2
1Lia2
5Lara1
5Valentina1
5Sara1
5Alina1
5Gianna1
5Lorena1

Boys

#NameThat year
1Dario3
2Gian2
2Nico2
2Elia2
2David2
2Lino2
2Mattia2
2Nic2
2Enea2
2Finn2

Most given, 2000–2025

Girls

#NameBirths
1Laura33
2Lara29
3Lea28
4Selina25
5Anna25
6Chiara24
7Luana24
8Valentina24
9Lina22
10Gianna21
11Alina21
12Sara21
13Lorena20
14Jana20
15Mia20
16Sina19
17Lena19
18Nina18
19Alessia17
20Leonie17

Boys

#NameBirths
1Luca38
2Gian36
3Laurin35
4Andrin29
5Livio29
6Fabio28
7Nico28
8Mauro26
9Elia26
10Noah26
11Leandro24
12Nino23
13David22
14Dario21
15Flurin19
16Lino18
17Jan18
18Nevio18
19Corsin18
20Silvan17

Source: Bundesamt für Statistik, Vornamen der Neugeborenen. The same records as the national page, split by the language of the area a child was born in. BFS splits the bilingual cantons itself, so Bern, Fribourg, Valais and Jura each count towards two regions and Graubünden towards three. A region is where the birth was registered, not what the family speaks at home. The same caveats as the national figures apply, because these are the same records.