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Names in Valais

66,869 first forenames across 3,619 recorded names, 2000 to 2025 – 3.82% of Switzerland.

What sets Valais (VS) 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
Clémence 0.17% 0.024% 111
Baptiste 0.21% 0.032% 138
Bastien 0.22% 0.035% 144
Célia 0.17% 0.030% 115
Océane 0.24% 0.045% 160
Arnaud 0.23% 0.043% 151
Clément 0.18% 0.034% 121
Timéo 0.20% 0.039% 134
Adrien 0.33% 0.065% 222
Léna 0.18% 0.036% 120
Mathilde 0.38% 0.080% 257
Morgane 0.16% 0.035% 107
Axel 0.28% 0.063% 188
Quentin 0.28% 0.065% 187
Manon 0.35% 0.082% 231

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

Girls

#NameThat year
1Alice21
2Eva18
3Sofia17
4Zoé16
4Olivia16
6Nora14
7Maria13
7Giulia13
7Lina13
10Mia11

Boys

#NameThat year
1Noah24
2Liam18
2Arthur18
4Isaac17
5Gabriel15
6Léo14
6Léon14
8Nathan12
9Maël11
9Elias11

Most given, 2000–2025

Girls

#NameBirths
1Emma476
2Lara355
3Léa338
4Chloé302
5Laura300
6Zoé282
7Eva260
8Mathilde257
9Alice249
10Julie247
11Mia245
12Lena232
13Manon231
14Camille226
15Lucie226
16Sara225
17Sarah223
18Nora214
19Elena210
20Jade208

Boys

#NameBirths
1Noah502
2Gabriel415
3Luca410
4Nathan379
5Samuel363
6Matteo356
7Thomas342
8Maxime340
9Liam339
10Théo327
11Lucas327
12David319
13Louis310
14Simon276
15Léo270
16Robin259
17Nolan251
18Enzo228
19Mathis225
20Adrien222

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.