Ylli
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈyl͡li/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ylli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 72nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: From yll (“star”), probably related to Illyrian *Hyllis.
- ALAlbania1 in 850(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 5.2K
- GRGreece≈1 in 52K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 850 (inferred from the name graph)
3,617 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)
From yll (“star”), probably related to Illyrian *Hyllis.
Sources 2
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ylli 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 | #72 | 3,617 | 1 in 850 | 3.6K | Ylli | 46 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 1 | Ylli | 22 |
| XK Kosovo | #327 | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | 2.3K | Ylli | 7 |
| US United States | — | 245 | 1 in 1.4M | 243 | Ylli | 76 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 394K | 1 | Ylli | 43 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Ylli | 21 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 552 | Ylli | 9 |
3,617 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ylli 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 non, inflection of valda:
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)
- Ylli Popab. 1930ALAlbanian physician and academician
- Ylli Vejsiub. 1941ALAlbanian mathematician, economist, statistician, politician (1941-2015)
- Ylli Bufib. 1948ALAlbanian politician and engineer
- Ylli Asllanib. 1959ALAlbanian politician
- Ylli Demnerib. 1961ALAlbanian writer
- Ylli Shehub. 1966ALAlbanian association football player
- Ylli Shabanib. 1982SESwedish association football player
- Ylli Shametib. 1984ALAlbanian footballer
- Ylli BajraktariUSPresident and CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project
- Ylli LamaALMember of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania
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 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 3.6K | #64 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2.3K | #314 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 243 | #33,663 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2013 | 103 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2011 | 102 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2008 | 102 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2014 | 95 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2012 | 90 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2007 | 87 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2009 | 86 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2005 | 83 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2016 | 81 | — |
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 Ylli mean, and where does it come from?
- From yll (“star”), probably related to Illyrian *Hyllis. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Ylli?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈyl͡li/ (IPA) for Albanian.
- Is Ylli a male or female name?
- Ylli 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 Ylli have the most bearers?
- In Albania, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Ylli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ylli.
- Where is Ylli most common?
- Ylli is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 850 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ylli?
- In Albania, the national register counted 3,617 people named Ylli, about 1 in 850 residents.
- How common is Ylli compared with other names?
- In Albania, Ylli is the 72nd 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/ylliThe 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, “Ylli” — the 72nd most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.