Gashi
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡaʃɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Gashi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common surname.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 1.2K
- DEGermany≈1 in 12K
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 Gashi 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.
- Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 116 (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gashi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | #11 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 116 | 1 | Gashi | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | #189 | 7,868 | 1 in 1.1K | 7.9K | Gashi | 43 |
| DE Germany | #934 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gashi | 111 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Gashi | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,210 | 1 in 4.6K | 2.2K | Gashi | 23 |
| SI Slovenia | #2 | 1,728 | 1 in 1.2K | 1.7K | Gashi | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,360 | 1 in 4K | 1.4K | Gashi | 14 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 468as Гаши | 1 in 4.5K | 468 | Gashi | 5 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Gashi 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 Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of がし
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)
- Mirko Gashib. 1939XKKosovar Albanian journalist and poet
- Gani Gashib. 1944XKAlbanian artist (born 1944)
- Ibrahim Gashib. 1960XKAlbanian philosopher
- Dardan Gashib. 1969XKKosovar politician
- Afrim Gashib. 1977MKpolitician from North Macedonia
- Ardian Gashib. 1981NOKosovar footballer (born 1981)
- Shkëlzen Gashib. 1988CHAlbanian footballer
- Gashib. 1989USAmerican rapper
- Ervin Gashib. 1990CHSwiss footballer
- Ilirab. 1994CHnot in their usual nameSwiss singer and songwriter
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 17 countries.
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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
- How do you pronounce Gashi?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡaʃɪ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Gashi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Gashi in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gashi.
- How common is the name Gashi?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 7,868 people named Gashi in 2024, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Gashi compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Gashi is the 11th most common surname of 4,329 surnames 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/gashiThe 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, “Gashi” — the 11th most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.