Family names in Liechtenstein

Map of the top 5 family names in Liechtenstein

The family names in Liechtenstein are often regionally concentrated in certain communities. On the occasion of the last survey by the Office for Statistics in Liechtenstein in 2010 on the basis of the data in the Central Register of Persons (ZPR), 2393 surnames of 24145 people with Liechtenstein citizenship and main residence in the Principality of Liechtenstein (FL) were recorded.

distribution

Family names in the Liechtenstein municipalities top 1 to top 3

Of these 2,393 family names , 1,538 were families in which only three or fewer people had that particular family name (64.27%). 47 of 2393 family names (1.96% of family names) had more than 100 carriers, of which the top 5 (= 14.63% of the resident population with FL citizenship) are the following family names:

• 802 people with the family name Büchel (3.32% of the resident population with FL citizenship),
• 746 people with the family name Beck (3.09% of the resident population with FL citizenship),
• 706 people with the surname Marxer (2.92% of the resident population with FL citizenship),
• 677 people with the surname Frick (2.80% of the resident population with FL citizenship) and
• 604 people with the family name Vogt (2.50% of the resident population with FL citizenship).

In the Liechtenstein Landtag , seven of the 25 MPs (28%) have a family name that comes from the top 5 Liechtenstein family names. If the top 50 family names in Liechtenstein are compared with the elected representatives in the state parliament, it becomes apparent that 17 MPs (68%) have such a family name (Top 100: 22 of 25 MPs).

The most common 50 family names

While in the list of surnames 2010 the first 100 are dominated by those with German origin, a non-German surname is only found in 101st place ( Nguyen with 30 carriers and after that, far away in 133rd position in the statistics, the surname Ming with 20 carriers ).

The 50 most common family names in Liechtenstein are:

No.:	family name	Number of carriers 2010	annotation
01	Büchel	802	2 MPs with this name in the state parliament 1 representative
02	Beck	746	2 MPs with this name in the state parliament
03	Marxer	706	1 member of parliament with this name in the state parliament 1 deputy member
04	Frick	677	1 member of parliament with this name
05	Vogt	604	1 member of parliament with this name
06	Schadler	543
07	Hasler	449	2 MPs with this name in the state parliament
08	Meier	400
09	Gassner	359
10	Ospelt	335
11	Kindle	327
12	Knight	301
13	Eberle	292
14th	Benevolence	282	1 member of parliament with this name
15th	Frommelt	272
16	Gstöhl	261
17th	Emperor	233	1 member of parliament with this name
18th	Frosted	222
19th	Lampert	218	1 member of parliament with this name
20th	Sele	213
21st	Honest man	210
22nd	Walser	210
23	Risch	209	1 deputy representative
24	wreath	201	1 deputy representative
25th	Nigg	196
26th	Buhler	190
27	Merchant	187	1 deputy representative
28	Oehri	184	1 member of parliament with this name
29	Hilti	182
30th	Öhri	177
31	Hoop	161
32	Banzer	150
33	Batliner	141	2 MPs with this name in the state parliament
34	Heeb	141	1 deputy representative
35	Näscher	139
36	sprinkler	138
37	Negele	136
38	Jehle	132
39	child	132
40	Guardian	131	1 deputy representative
41	Wolfinger	129
42	Kieber	126
43	Nippy	119
44	Wanger	113
45	Foser	106
46	will	103
47	Nails	102	1 member of parliament with this name
48	Bargetze	99
49	Konrad	96	1 member of parliament with this name
50	Thöny	96
#	total	12588	52.14% of the resident population with FL citizenship

While in Germany occupational titles predominate in family names (see list of the most common family names in Germany ) and in Austria occupational and residential names dominate (see family names in Austria ), the distribution in Liechtenstein is mixed and, if there are no references Locations are available, characterized by other job titles or nicknames and house names.

See also

• Liechtenstein name book
• List of the most common surnames in Germany
• German surnames
• Family names in Austria
• First name
• House name

Web links

• Family name statistics 2010 of the Office for Statistics of the Principality of Liechtenstein
• FAMOS: Surnames Austrian side of the Academy

literature

• Duden: family names, origin and meaning of 20,000 surnames . ISBN 3-411-70852-2 .
• dtv-Atlas: onomatology . ISBN 3-423-03234-0 .
• Hans Stricker; Toni Banzer; Herbert Hilbe, Liechtenstein Name Book , Vaduz 1999, Historical Association for the Principality of Liechtenstein, ISBN 3-906393-25-9
• Hans Bahlow: German name dictionary . Munich 1967, ISBN 3-8112-2271-6 .
• Max Gottschald : German onomatology . 5th edition, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-11-008618-2 .
• Josef Karlmann Brechenmacher: Etymological dictionary of German family names . ISBN 3-7980-0355-6 .
• Horst Naumann: The big book of family names. Age, origin, meaning . Augsburg 2005, ISBN 3-8289-1955-3 ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Office for Statistics of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Surname Statistics 2010, p. 10 ff. Published on April 25, 2012.
2. ↑ See Office for Statistics of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Family Name Statistics 2010, p. 5.
3. ^ Office for Statistics of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Family Name Statistics 2010, p. 6.
4. ^ Office for Statistics of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Family Name Statistics 2010, p. 6. Only one person carried 742 surnames, two persons with 421 surnames and three persons with 375 surnames.
5. ↑ See Members of the State Parliament .
6. ↑ Büchel: 2 MPs; Beck: 2; Marxer: 1; Frick: 1; Vogt: 1. The count was only based on the name itself and the origin and a name change due to marriage were not taken into account.
7. ^ Office for Statistics of the Principality of Liechtenstein, Surname Statistics 2010, p. 8 f.
8. ^ Beck , home name / Becker , job title, home name.
9. ^ Vogt , job title (advocatus, administrator).
10. ^ Meier , job title.
11. ↑ Kaiser , nickname, house name.