Names in Italian-speaking Switzerland
65,185 first forenames across 3,038 recorded names, 2000 to 2025 – 3.73% of Switzerland.
What sets Italian 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Martino | 0.23% | 0.003% | 150 |
| Jacopo | 0.24% | 0.004% | 155 |
| Ginevra | 0.32% | 0.007% | 211 |
| Nicolò | 0.38% | 0.008% | 246 |
| Agata | 0.20% | 0.004% | 131 |
| Giona | 0.31% | 0.007% | 205 |
| Tommaso | 0.52% | 0.012% | 338 |
| Ludovica | 0.18% | 0.004% | 120 |
| Simone | 0.59% | 0.014% | 387 |
| Filippo | 0.45% | 0.011% | 291 |
| Giacomo | 0.43% | 0.011% | 279 |
| Samuele | 0.64% | 0.020% | 420 |
| Giorgia | 0.57% | 0.019% | 372 |
| Edoardo | 0.39% | 0.013% | 253 |
| Gioele | 0.51% | 0.018% | 335 |
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
Most given, 2000–2025
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.