Names of Albania AL

INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) records Mimoza as the commonest given name in Albania; the names that most distinguish Albania from the rest of the world are Hoxha, Gashi and Krasniqi.

Written in Albanian.

Population
3.1M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
7K
BBuilt from 1 official register, 6,984 name forms in our corpus, 3 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Albania are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Albania included.

How names work in Albania

Names in Albania follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Albania

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) — 6,172 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
2Mimoza8.7K12
4Shpresa7.9K14
6Vjollca7.4K—
7Drita7.1K23
10Lindita6.9K34
11Valbona6.6K33
14Majlinda6.1K77
16Luljeta5.8K73
17Fatime5.8K—
18Afërdita5.8K—
20Anila5.3K66
21Violeta5.2K—
22Valentina5.2K67
25Fatbardha4.9K—
27Liljana4.8K87
28Sara4.7K123
30Anxhela4.6K26
31Mirela4.6K74
33Alma4.5K—
35Merita4.5K90

Where the two lists disagree

24 of INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)Across all recordsmimoza: 2 → 12 · ranks lower across all records2. mimoza12shpresa: 4 → 14 · ranks lower across all records4. shpresa14vjollca: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. vjollcanot rankeddrita: 7 → 23 · ranks lower across all records7. drita23lindita: 10 → 34 · ranks lower across all records10. lindita34valbona: 11 → 33 · ranks lower across all records11. valbona33majlinda: 14 → 77 · ranks lower across all records14. majlinda77luljeta: 16 → 73 · ranks lower across all records16. luljeta73fatime: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. fatimenot rankedafërdita: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. afërditanot rankedanila: 20 → 66 · ranks lower across all records20. anila66violeta: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. violetanot rankedvalentina: 22 → 67 · ranks lower across all records22. valentina67fatbardha: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. fatbardhanot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) on the left; every record we hold for Albania on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Albania

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Albania holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

AlbaniaArbenShkëlqimPetritShpëtimAliAgimRobertBesnikAndiMimozaKujtimAltinShpresaAgronArditAnxhelaHasanFatmirAstritRexhepDenisDritaAlbertEltonHysenLinditaNdueValbonaXhemilePërparimArturEndritAlbanErvinBujarLeonardEduartQemalAlbanaIsmailBashkimVasilAlfredBledarErmalAndreaJamesDritanSanijeMehmetPjetërArjanAnilaValentinaYlliErjonKastriotFlamurLuljeta
Sized by how much of the difference between Albania's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Albaniagiven name(measured from records)
Hoxhasurname(measured from records)
Gashisurname(measured from records)
Arbengiven name(measured from records)
Krasniqisurname(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Albania, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Albania?
Mimoza, according to INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts), with 8,673 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Albania?
Because they count different people. INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Mimoza. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Arben. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Albania”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/AL (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts).