Drita
given name · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of dritë (“light”):
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Drita is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 23rd most common given name.
- ALAlbania1 in 431(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 442
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 32K
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 Drita itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Albania (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 431 (inferred from the name graph)
7,127 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
inflection of dritë (“light”):
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Drita 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | #23 | 7,127 | 1 in 431 | 7.1K | Drita | 39 |
| XK Kosovo | #60 | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 442 | 5.3K | Drita | 7 |
| MK North Macedonia | #962 | 1,202as Дрита | 1 in 1.8K | 1.2K | Drita | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 1 | Drita | 8 |
| US United States | — | 596 | 1 in 558K | 596 | Drita | 56 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Drita | 7 |
| SI Slovenia | #590 | 64 | 1 in 33K | 69 | Drita | 3 |
7,127 people counted by INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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: INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); State Statistical Office — living population names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Drita is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovenian, second-person dual imperative of dreti
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vec, feminine singular of drito
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, to defecate
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Bokmål, Very drunk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Drita Pelingub. 1926ALAlbanian actress, director (1926–2013)
- Drita Agollib. 1927ALAlbanese actress (1927-2017)
- Drita Halimi-Statovcib. 1945scientist
- Drita Haxhirajb. 1947ALactor
- Drita Çomob. 1958ALAlbanian poet (1958-1981)
- Drita Zirib. 2005ALAlbanian beauty pageant titleholder (born 2005)
- Drita KotajiBEBelgian singer
- Drita MillakuALAlbanian politician
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 7.1K | #7 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 5.3K | #51 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 596 | #18,161 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1965 | 187 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1973 | 185 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1976 | 183 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1971 | 182 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1967 | 182 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1972 | 180 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1970 | 174 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1969 | 174 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1963 | 168 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- What does the name Drita mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of dritë (“light”): Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Drita a male or female name?
- Drita is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Drita have the most bearers?
- In Albania, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Drita, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled drita.
- Where is Drita most common?
- Drita is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 431 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Drita?
- In Albania, the national register counted 7,127 people named Drita, about 1 in 431 residents.
- How common is Drita compared with other names?
- In Albania, Drita is the 23rd most common given name of 11,910 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dritaThe 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, “Drita” — the 23rd most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.