Dritan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dritˈan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dritan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From dritë (“light”) + -an. Probably the suffix was voluntarely inserted to render it similar to Illyrian *Tritanus.
- ALAlbania1 in 668(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 934K
- XKKosovo≈1 in 13K
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 Dritan 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
- 107 (measured from records)
- 1 in 668 (inferred from the name graph)
4,603 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Дритан in MK North Macedonia.
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)
From dritë (“light”) + -an. Probably the suffix was voluntarely inserted to render it similar to Illyrian *Tritanus.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dritan 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 | #57 | 4,603 | 1 in 668 | 4.6K | Dritan | 76 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 1 | Dritan | 31 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Dritan | 28 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 366as Дритан | 1 in 5.8K | 366 | Дритан | 5 |
| US United States | — | 356 | 1 in 934K | 356 | Dritan | 107 |
| XK Kosovo | #640 | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 249 | Dritan | 5 |
4,603 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); State Statistical Office — living population names; ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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)
Dritan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In odt, to defecate
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)
- Dritan Hilab. 1966ALAlbanian publicist and diplomat
- Tani Stafsulab. 1981ALnot in their usual nameAlbanian-Finnish footballer
- Dritan Abazovicb. 1985MEprime-minister of Republic of Montenegro 2022–2023
- Dritan Qokuauthor
- Dritan HasaITresearcher
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 4.6K | #29 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 356 | #26,250 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 249 | #1,847 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1976 | 18 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1983 | 17 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1978 | 16 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1972 | 15 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1985 | 14 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1979 | 14 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1980 | 12 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1973 | 12 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1981 | 11 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Dritan mean, and where does it come from?
- From dritë (“light”) + -an. Probably the suffix was voluntarely inserted to render it similar to Illyrian *Tritanus. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Dritan?
- A machine transcription gives /dritˈan/ (IPA) for Albanian.
- Is Dritan a male or female name?
- Dritan is a male 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 Dritan have the most bearers?
- In Albania, the national register counted about 4.6 thousand people named Dritan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dritan.
- Where is Dritan most common?
- Dritan is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 668 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dritan?
- In Albania, the national register counted 4,603 people named Dritan, about 1 in 668 residents.
- How common is Dritan compared with other names?
- In Albania, Dritan is the 57th 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/dritanThe 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, “Dritan” — the 57th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.