Hoxha

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Enver, Albanian politician

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/hˈɔd͡ʒɑ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hoxha is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania≈1 in 65(inferred from the name graph)
  • XKKosovo≈1 in 112
  • ITItaly≈1 in 8.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Albania (inferred from the name graph)

≈48,000 people, est.

Sources
166 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 65 (inferred from the name graph)

Albania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Enver, Albanian politician

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hoxha 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 Hoxha is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#1≈48,000 est.≈1 in 65—Hoxha107
XK Kosovo#3≈17,000 est.≈1 in 112—Hoxha23
IT Italy—≈7,400 est.≈1 in 8.4K—Hoxha69
CH Switzerland—1,6931 in 5K1.7KHoxha31
US United States—1,1541 in 288K1.8KHoxha166
SI Slovenia#512701 in 7.8K270Hoxha7

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hoxha is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Hòxhà, Hóxhá, Hõxhā

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Italy, United States

    Also written Hôxhâ

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Hõxhã

43 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hoxha 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 Croatian, albanski komunistički vođa; 1941—1944. vrhovni zapovjednik albanskih partizana i NOV-a, poslije rata uspostavio autokratsko-staljinistički totalitarni režim; u sporu s Jugoslavijom od 1948, poslije 1956. i sa SSSR-om; izolirao Albaniju od svijeta

    as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export

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)

190019502000Enver Hoxha, b. 1908Fadil Hoxha, b. 1916Ilir Hoxha, b. 1949Anna Oxa, b. 1961Ferit Hoxha, b. 1967Kasem Hoxha, b. 1968Sinan Hoxha, b. 1975Alban Hoxha, b. 1987Erand Hoxha, b. 1987Fabio Hoxha, b. 1993

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)

FormalI/E nderuar Hoxha,Dear Hoxha, (English)
InformalI/E nderuar Hoxha,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 27 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Hoxha
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.8K#15,406
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.7K#606
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020101.2K#22,334
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000481#42,437
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—270#1,487
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

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 Hoxha mean, and where does it come from?
Enver, Albanian politician Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Hoxha?
A machine transcription gives /hˈɔd͡ʒɑ/ (IPA) for Albanian.
In which country does Hoxha have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 48 thousand people named Hoxha in Albania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoxha.
How common is the name Hoxha?
In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,693 people named Hoxha in 2024, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
How common is Hoxha compared with other names?
In Albania, Hoxha is the most common surname of 16,055 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, “Hoxha” — the most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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