The Walti surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 132 people carried this name — #129,047 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 2,500,000 people counted. That is down 6% from 141 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
3,192 people named Walti live in Switzerland.
They live in 25 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Bern.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 50 people named Walti.
7 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Paris.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
Who carried it
People named Walti,
with a public archive behind them.
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Friedrich Walti 1933– · writer
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Otto Walti 1938– · writer
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Ruedi Walti 1957– · photographer
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Beat Walti 1968– · lawyer
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Sandra Walti Niklaus 1970– · author
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Christian Walti 1982– · parson
Wikidata (CC0) · 7 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Walti.
- Walliser 296 · U.S. census
- Wallon 160 · U.S. census
- Walser 2,782 · U.S. census
- Walsh 105,079 · U.S. census
- Walter 48,024 · U.S. census
- Walther 6,444 · U.S. census
- Walton 73,854 · U.S. census
- Waltz 6,819 · U.S. census
- Waltzer 264 · U.S. census
- Walz 7,220 · U.S. census
- Walzer 878 · U.S. census
- Wambach 779 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
This page says where Walti is.
A volume says what happened to it.
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