Reto
Reto is a male given name that is only used in Switzerland .
Origin and meaning
Reto means “the counselor; the Romansh; who comes from the area of the Rhaeto-Romans in the Swiss Alps . "
A rarer form of the name is Räto , which points more strongly to the origin of the name. It is used almost exclusively in the Bündner Oberland ( Surselva ).
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Well-known namesake
- Reto von Arx (* 1976), Swiss ice hockey player
- Reto Badrutt (1908–?), Swiss ski jumper
- Reto Bärtschi (* 1971), Swiss artist
- Reto Berra (* 1987), Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper
- Reto R. Bezzola (1898–1983), Swiss Romanist and Medievalist
- Reto Bolli (* 1979), Swiss football goalkeeper
- Reto Borer alias Bo Katzman (* 1952), Swiss musician
- Reto Brennwald (* 1963), Swiss television presenter
- Reto Brunhart (* 1954), Police Chief of the Liechtenstein National Police
- Reto Brunner (* 1967), Swiss creative director and curator in Germany
- Reto Bucher (* 1982), Swiss wrestler
- Reto Burgermeister (* 1975), Swiss cross-country skier
- Reto Burrell (* 1973), Swiss musician, songwriter and music producer
- Reto Caffi (* 1971), Swiss film director
- Reto Camenisch (* 1958), Swiss photographer
- Reto Capadrutt (1912–1939), Swiss bobsledder
- Reto Caratsch (1901–1978), Swiss lawyer, journalist and writer
- Reto Caslano (1937–2003), Swiss poet doctor
- Reto Diezi (* 1949), Swiss sprinter
- Reto Donatsch (* 1973), Swiss squash player
- Reto Dubach (* 1956), Swiss politician (FDP)
- Reto Emch (* 1961), Swiss visual artist
- Reto Luzius Fetz (* 1942), Swiss philosophy professor
- Reto Finger (* 1972), Swiss playwright
- Reto Francioni (* 1955), board member of UBS AG and UBS Group AG
- Reto Gloor (1962–2019), Swiss comic artist
- Reto Götschi (* 1965), Swiss bobsleigh driver and two-man bobsleigh world champion
- Reto Graber (* 1998), Swiss floorball player
- Reto Hänny (* 1947), Swiss writer
- Reto M. Hilty (* 1958), Swiss legal scholar
- Reto Hollenstein (* 1985), Swiss cyclist
- Reto Hug (* 1975), Swiss triathlete
- Reto Kläy (* 1978), Swiss ice hockey official
- Reto Knutti (* 1973), Swiss climatologist
- Reto Lamm (* 1970), Swiss snowboarder
- Reto Lampart (* 1968), Swiss chef
- Reto Landolt (* 1992), Swiss wrestler
- Reto Lipp (* 1960), Swiss business journalist
- Reto Müller (* 1964), Swiss opera researcher, especially about Rossini
- Reto Müller (* 1974), Swiss table tennis player
- Reto Müller (* 1978), Swiss politician
- Reto Müller (* 1998), Swiss cyclist
- Reto Nause (* 1971), Swiss politician (CVP)
- Reto Nay (* 1962), Swiss Roman Catholic priest, exegete and internet activist
- Reto Niedermann (* 1981), Swiss rower
- Reto Parolari (1952–2019), Swiss conductor
- Reto Pavoni (* 1968), Swiss ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
- Reto Perl (* 1923), Swiss ice hockey player
- Reto Salimbeni (* 1958), Swiss director, screenwriter and film producer
- Reto Andrea Savoldelli (* 1949), Italian-Swiss film director, educator and writer
- Reto Schäppi (* 1991), Swiss ice hockey player
- Reto Amaru Schenkel (* 1988), Swiss athlete
- Reto Scherrer (* 1975), Swiss radio and television presenter
- Reto Schmidiger (* 1992), Swiss ski racer
- Reto U. Schneider (* 1963), Swiss science journalist
- Reto Stalder (* 1986), Swiss actor and speaker
- Reto Stutz (* 1977), Swiss triathlete
- Reto Suhner (* 1974), Swiss jazz musician
- Reto Suri (* 1989), Swiss ice hockey player
- Räto Tschupp (1929–2002), Swiss conductor
- Reto Weber (* 1953), Swiss percussionist
- Reto Wehrli (* 1965), Swiss lawyer and politician (CVP)
- Reto Weiler (* 1947), Swiss neurobiologist
- Reto Wyss (* 1952), Swiss rower
- Reto Wyss (* 1964), Swiss psychologist and author
- Reto Wyss (* 1965), Swiss politician (CVP)
- Reto Zanni (* 1980), Swiss football player
- Reto Ziegler (* 1986), Swiss football player
Others
- Reto also denotes a Germanic pseudo deity or a fairy tale figure.