Mia and Noah are at the forefront when it comes to babies

In the Swiss name hit list, Mia and Noah are once again at the top for newborns. In the entire population, Daniel and Mary are the most common. When it comes to family names, it’s no surprise that Müller and Meier are the most common.

Mia is the most common first name for newborn girls.

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As in the previous year, Mia and Noah will also lead the Swiss first name hit parade in 2021. As the Federal Statistical Office (BfS) announced on Tuesday that newborn boys Noah, Liam and Matteo are at the top of the rankings. Noah was the most popular in 2010, 2011 and 2013-2017. Now he’s edged Liam down to second place again.

Mia, Emma and Elena occupy the girls the top spots. Mia had already been awarded the most in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2019.

Hit list of newborn boys

Distribution in Switzerland

Hit list of newborn girls

distribution in Switzerland

Newcomers of the Year: Vera and Zayn

Newcomers of the year are Vera among the girls and Zayn among the boys. The two first names moved up the rankings by 131 and 242 places, respectively, between 2020 and 2021. The biggest relegation over the same period was Matilda, the biggest relegation was Lionel; they lost 82 and 62 places respectively. Amira and Emilio are among the top 100 most popular first names for newborns.

Daniel and Mary most commonly

Viewed across all generations – i.e. in the permanent resident population of Switzerland in 2021 – Daniel and Maria are the most common first names in Switzerland. The men are followed by Peter, Thomas, Hans and Christian. Among the women, Anna, Sandra, Ursula and Elisabeth take places 2 to 5.

Most common male names

distribution in Switzerland

Most common female names

If you look at the individual vintages, the preferences over time become visible. For men born in 1961, Peter comes first, for women Maria. Daniel and Sandra head the list for those born in 1981, and Luca and Laura for those born in 2001.

For the first time, the Federal Statistical Office (BfS) is also publishing figures on the distribution of the population’s surnames. In a dynamic map, the most common names listed by municipality. And when it comes to assessing the distribution, the spontaneous impression is not wrong: the most common surname in the permanent resident population of Switzerland is actually Müller, followed by Meier and Schmid. However, the variety of names is enormous: with around 54,000 people, the Müllers make up just 0.6 percent of the entire population of Switzerland (8.7 million). There are over half a million different surnames in all, with different spellings counted separately.

The most common surname in French-speaking Switzerland is da Silva (10,220 people). In Italian-speaking Switzerland it is Bernasconi (2322 people) and in Rhaeto-Romanic Switzerland Derungs (240 people).

Most common surnames

Distribution in German-speaking Switzerland

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