Walti
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/walti/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Walti is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country: 2,757 people, counted by BFS in 2024.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 3K(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 750K
- FRFrance≈1 in 780Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Walti itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 93 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
2,757 people, 2024
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Waelti in CA Canada.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Walti
- Portuguese:/walti/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/balti/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Walti is found
(measured from records)Walti counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #171 | 2,757 | 1 in 3K | 2.8K | Walti | 51 |
| US United States | — | 132 | 1 in 2.5M | 145 | Walti | 93 |
| FR France | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 776K | 6 | Walti | 67 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 674K | — | Waelti | 11 |
| BR Brazil | — | 43 | 1 in 4.9M | 43 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Walti | 1 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1 | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | — |
2,757 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024, counting the spelling wälti. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Beat Waltib. 1968CHSwiss politician
- Martin Waltib. 1982CHSwiss freestyle skier
- Christoph Paul WältiCHresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Walti?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /walti/; in Spanish /balti/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Walti?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 2.8 thousand people named Walti, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled walti. After it come United States, France, Canada and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Walti most common?
- Walti is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Walti?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 2,757 people named Walti in 2024, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Walti compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Walti is the 171st most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Walti?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waltiThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Walti” — ranked 297th in Switzerland (BFS, 2024). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.