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Names in Glarus

7,852 first forenames across 1,818 recorded names, 2000 to 2025 – 0.45% of Switzerland.

What sets Glarus (GL) 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
Neva 0.28% 0.026% 22
Tobias 0.41% 0.135% 32
Ladina 0.31% 0.108% 24
Sina 0.37% 0.133% 29
Sarina 0.25% 0.101% 20
Anja 0.31% 0.125% 24
Ronja 0.33% 0.146% 26
Silvan 0.33% 0.146% 26
Andrin 0.46% 0.203% 36
Marco 0.46% 0.216% 36
Gian 0.50% 0.243% 39
Joel 0.50% 0.250% 39
Lio 0.27% 0.137% 21
Fiona 0.36% 0.192% 28
Lian 0.28% 0.153% 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

Glarus recorded 285 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
1Livia3
2Lea2
2Mia2
2Lia2
2Nora2
2Lisa2
2Luana2
2Neva2
2Aurora2
2Olivia2

Boys

#NameThat year
1Dario4
2Leon3
2Levi3
2Luan3
5Nico2
5Elias2
5David2
5Linus2
5Alexander2
5Lucas2

Most given, 2000–2025

Girls

#NameBirths
1Sara52
2Lea51
3Mia44
4Laura44
5Alina42
6Leonie38
7Julia36
8Lara35
9Lena35
10Nina32
11Lia32
12Chiara32
13Jana30
14Sina29
15Anna29
16Selina29
17Nora29
18Lisa28
19Fiona28
20Elena27

Boys

#NameBirths
1Noah56
2Luca46
3Nico44
4Elias40
5Joel39
6Gian39
7Marco36
8Jonas36
9Andrin36
10Jan36
11Samuel34
12Tobias32
13David32
14Leon31
15Liam31
16Dario31
17Leandro30
18Matteo29
19Tim29
20Simon28

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.