Names of Liechtenstein LI

Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames) records Beck as the commonest surname in Liechtenstein; the names that most distinguish Liechtenstein from the rest of the world are Buchel, Frick and Schadler.

Written in German.

Population
39K
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
320
ABuilt from 2 official registers (2020), 320 name forms in our corpus, 11 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Liechtenstein are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Liechtenstein included.

How names work in Liechtenstein

3 naming traditions are in use in Liechtenstein, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Liechtenstein

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 2

This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.

Statistik Liechtenstein — Vornamenstatistik (newborn given names), 2020 — 132 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Sofia, Sophia7—
2Laura5—
3Hanna, Hannah4—
4Amélie, Amelie3—
5Anna3—
6Annika3—
7Emma3—
8Julia3—
9Lina3—
10Mia3—
11Nina3—
12Noemi3—
13Nora3—
14Sophie3—
15Valentina3—
16Alya2—
17Amelia2—
18Elena2—
19Elisa, Eliza2—
20Ella2—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of Statistik Liechtenstein — Vornamenstatistik (newborn given names)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Statistik Liechtenstein — Vornamenstatistik (newborn given names) 2020Across all recordsmaximilian: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. maximiliannot rankedoscar, oskar: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. oscar, oskarnot rankedlaurin: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. laurinnot rankedleo: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. leonot rankedlian, lyan: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. lian, lyannot rankedluis, louis: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. luis, louisnot rankednoah, noa: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. noah, noanot rankedtheo: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. theonot rankedgustav: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. gustavnot rankedhenri: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. henrinot rankedivan, iwan: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. ivan, iwannot rankedlenny: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. lennynot rankedleon: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. leonnot rankedleopold: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. leopoldnot rankedmatteo: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. matteonot rankedmax: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. maxnot rankedmuhamed, muhammed: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. muhamed, muhammednot rankednico: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. niconot rankednino: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. ninonot rankednoel: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. noelnot rankedthiago, tiago: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. thiago, tiagonot rankedaaron: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. aaronnot rankedadrián: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. adriánnot rankedaidan: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. aidannot rankedajan: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. ajannot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Statistik Liechtenstein — Vornamenstatistik (newborn given names), 2020 on the left; every record we hold for Liechtenstein on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Liechtenstein

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Liechtenstein holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

BuchelFrickSchadlerVogtBeckOehriHaslerGassnerGstöhlMeierRitterEberleWalserSeleKranzNascherKaiserNegeleHeebFoserBuhlerJehleBurzleKaufmannWangerWolfingerWachterWilleNageleSeger
Sized by how much of the difference between Liechtenstein's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Buchelsurname●
Becksurname●
Vogtsurname●
Fricksurname●
Schadlersurname●
The best-attested names in Liechtenstein, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames)2020headline (surnames)

    Amt für Statistik / Statistik Liechtenstein. Counts: not recorded. surname. 762 forms. 2020. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

    What we know about this register

    Surname statistics, published every 10 years (publication-ID 720.2020.01.1, decennial; latest edition 2020). Parquet built from Tab_4 — the full alphabetical surname list for Liechtenstein nationals (surnames with 5 or more entries) with the national total count per surname. Per-municipality columns with suppressed (*) small cells were dropped; national-total * cells skipped. 764 rows. Top surnames match the ranked Tab_1 list (Beck 761, Büchel 758, Marxer 681). Same XLSX-not-PDF caveat and Cloudflare/Firecrawl-discovery caveat as li-statistik-vornamen.

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

  • Statistik Liechtenstein — Vornamenstatistik (newborn given names)2020headline (given)

    Amt für Statistik / Statistik Liechtenstein. Counts: newborns. given. 134 forms. 2020. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

    What we know about this register

    Given-name statistics for newborns, published annually since 1970 (gap 1987-1993). Latest published edition is 2020 (XLSX, publication-ID 725.2020.01.1). The portal /de/ landing pages are Cloudflare-gated, but the legacy /statistikportal/publications/ XLSX path is fetchable via plain curl with a browser UA. Newer years (2021-2024) return HTTP 403 (not yet published). Source NOT a PDF as originally assumed — data is Excel. Parquet built from Tab_3 (female) + Tab_4 (male): the full alphabetical 2020 newborn lists with exact counts (Anzahl) and sex. Phonetically equal name variants (e.g. Sofia/Sophia) are grouped by the publisher and kept as the published grouped label. 266 rows (134 M, 132 F). Tab_1/Tab_2 additionally carry ranked 2018-2020 data with grouped variants (not ingested to avoid double-counting). Discovered the real XLSX slug via Firecrawl (the /de/ publication archive is JS-rendered).

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Liechtenstein?
Maximilian, according to Statistik Liechtenstein — Vornamenstatistik (newborn given names) (2020), with 4 bearers recorded among boys.
What is the most common surname in Liechtenstein?
Beck, according to Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames) (2020), with 761 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Liechtenstein?
Because they count different people. Statistik Liechtenstein — Vornamenstatistik (newborn given names) (2020) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Maximilian. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Iur. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Liechtenstein?
No — 3 are described on this page (German, Romansh, Luxembourgish), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Liechtenstein”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/LI (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Statistik Liechtenstein — Familiennamenstatistik (surnames); Statistik Liechtenstein — Vornamenstatistik (newborn given names).