Shpëtim
given name · Latin script
Meaning: salvage
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʃpətim/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shpëtim is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name.
- ALAlbania1 in 712(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 2K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 40K
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 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- 1 in 712 (inferred from the name graph)
4,318 people
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Shpetim in XK Kosovo, DE Germany, GR Greece and 3 more.
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)
salvage
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shpëtim 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 | #9 | 4,318 | 1 in 712 | 4.3K | Shpëtim | 46 |
| XK Kosovo | #148 | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 2K | 1.3K | Shpetim | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 66K | 1 | Shpetim | 20 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 289K | 1 | Shpetim | 46 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Shpetim | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Shpetim | 16 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Shpetim | 4 |
4,318 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); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)
- Shpëtim Shëmilib. 1941ALActor
- Shpëtim Durob. 1959ALAlbanian footballer
- Shpëtim Gjikab. 1962ALAlbanian politician
- Shpëtim Idrizib. 1967ALAlbanian politician
- Shpëtim Babajb. 1981ALAlbanian footballer
- Shpëtim Hasanib. 1982XKfootballer
- Shpëtim Selmanib. 1986XKAlbanian politician
- Shpëtim Moçkab. 1989ALAlbanian footballer
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 4.3K | #40 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 831 | #822 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1999 | 71 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2000 | 45 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1991 | 38 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1981 | 37 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1993 | 33 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1990 | 33 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1996 | 31 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1994 | 31 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1986 | 30 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1989 | 27 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Shpëtim mean, and where does it come from?
- salvage Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Shpëtim?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃpətim/ (IPA) for Albanian.
- Is Shpëtim a male or female name?
- Shpëtim 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 Shpëtim have the most bearers?
- In Albania, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Shpëtim, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shpëtim.
- Where is Shpëtim most common?
- Shpëtim is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 712 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Shpëtim?
- In Albania, the national register counted 4,318 people named Shpëtim, about 1 in 712 residents.
- How common is Shpëtim compared with other names?
- In Albania, Shpëtim is the 9th most common given name of 11,910 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shpëtim?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shp%C3%ABtimThe 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, “Shpëtim” — the 9th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.