Šabani

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

Pronunciation:

Šabani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common surname.

  • XKKosovo≈1 in 160few records(inferred from the name graph)
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 7.9K
  • HRCroatia1 in 22K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.

Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)

≈10,000 people, est.

Record sources
17 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 156 (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sabani in CH Switzerland, SE Sweden, US United States.

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.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Šabani 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.

Where Šabani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
XK Kosovo#14≈10,000 est.≈1 in 156—Šabani2
CH Switzerland—1,0661 in 7.9K1.1KSabani2
SE Sweden—2271 in 45K227Sabani2
HR Croatia—1901 in 22K190Šabani12
US United States—1381 in 2.4M158Sabani6
UY Uruguay—1321 in 26K132——

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); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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).

Other names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Šabani is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname28 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Germany, Belgium

    Languages: French, English, German

    Also written Sabani, Şabani, Säbåñį, Šabānī, Sabaní

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Sabani

  • Indonesian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Sabani, Sa'Bani, Sa’bani

  • Amharic name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Sabani, ሳባኒ, Şabani

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Sabani, Sabānī, Şabânî, Şabani

  • Khmer name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Sabani

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Sabani

5 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalPoštovani Šabani,Dear Šabani, (English)
InformalPoštovani Šabani,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Šabani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021190#4,386
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021128—

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Šabani have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Šabani in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šabani.
How common is the name Šabani?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,066 people named Šabani in 2024, about 1 in 7.9 thousand residents.
How common is Šabani compared with other names?
In Kosovo, Šabani is the 14th most common surname of 4,329 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Šabani” — the 14th most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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