Hoxha
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Enver, Albanian politician (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ˈhɔdʒa/(recorded in a dictionary) Albanian · from Wiktionary
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.
- ALAlbania≈1 in 53(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 90
- CHSwitzerland1 in 5K
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)
- Record sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 53 (inferred from the name graph)
≈45,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Hoxha
- Albanian:/ˈhɔdʒa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Enver, Albanian politician
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Hoxha is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | #1 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 53 | — | Hoxha | 107 |
| XK Kosovo | #3 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 90 | — | Hoxha | 23 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Hoxha | 69 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 1,693 | 1 in 5K | 1.7K | Hoxha | 31 |
| US United States | — | 1,154 | 1 in 288K | 1.8K | Hoxha | 166 |
| SI Slovenia | #51 | 270 | 1 in 7.8K | 270 | Hoxha | 7 |
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 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)- Enver Hoxhab. 1908ALformer First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania, Prime Minister of Albania
- Anna Oxab. 1961ITnot in their usual nameItalian singer
- Alban Hoxhab. 1987ALAlbanian professional 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)Evidence
(measured from records)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
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?
- In Albanian /ˈhɔdʒa/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Hoxha?
- Mondonomo estimates about 45 thousand people named Hoxha in Albania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hoxha. After it come Kosovo, Italy, Switzerland and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/hoxhaThe 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, “Hoxha” — the most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.