Popular and unique baby names in Zurich, 2021

According to the government of Zurich, the most popular baby names last year in the German-speaking Swiss city were Olivia and Noah.

Here are Zurich’s top girl names and top boy names of 2021:

Girl Names

1. Olivia, 28 baby girls
2. Emma, 25
3. Anna, 24 (tie)
4. Ella, 24 (tie)
5. Mia, 22 (3-way tie)
6. Sofia, 22 (3-way tie)
7. Sophia, 22 (3-way tie)
8. Elena, 20
9. Charlotte, 19
10. Lina, 18
11. Sophie, 17
12. Yara, 16
13. Nora, 15
14. Clara, 14 (3-way tie)
15. Lea, 14 (3-way tie)
16. Zoe, 14 (3-way tie)

Boy Names

1. Noah, 27 baby boys
2. Leo, 24
3. Louis, 22
4. Theo, 20
5. Levi, 18 (3-way tie)
6. Luca, 18 (3-way tie)
7. Mateo, 18 (3-way tie)
8. Luis, 17 (tie)
9. Maximilian, 17 (tie)
10. Felix, 16 (4-way tie)
11. Finn, 16 (4-way tie)
12. Leonardo, 16 (4-way tie)
13. Liam, 16 (4-way tie)
14. Daniel, 15 (4-way tie)
15. Elias, 15 (4-way tie)
16. Jan, 15 (4-way tie)
17. Vincent, 15 (4-way tie)

Though I’ve posted rankings for Switzerland before, I’ve never looked at the rankings for Zurich specifically, so I don’t have any past sets of rankings to compare this set to.

But — because Zurich’s rankings included everything from the top names down to the single-use names — I can give you a sampling of the baby names that were bestowed just once last year in Switzerland’s largest city:

Unique Girl Names	Unique Boy Names
Aola, Belangie, Cybèle, Diola, Elfida, Flurina, Gresa, Heja, Illiyeen, Jenaja, Kumru, Leviah, Milaine, Nissy, Odine, Proxima, Quimey, Reisel, Shiffra, Tabia, Ursina, Vennila, Wilma, Yelira, Zoélie	Astérion, Bodo, Corvin, Doruk, Ezriel, Falko, Giordano, Henning, Ilyas, Jaromir, Koshin, Leart, Mazlum, Nahuel, Orfeo, Pavle, Qiheng, Rikuto, Solan, Tanju, Umor, Viggo, Wybe, Yonah, Zaam

Sources: Vornamen-Verzeichnis 2021 – Stadt Zürich, The most popular baby names in Zurich in 2021, Zurich – Wikipedia

Image: Adapted from Flag of Switzerland (public domain)