Zekaj
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/tskʰaj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zekaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 29K
- NONorway1 in 76K
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.
- Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 44 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
Zekaj 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 | #177 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Zekaj | 6 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 292 | 1 in 29K | 292 | Zekaj | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Zekaj | 43 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 253K | 2 | Zekaj | 11 |
| SE Sweden | — | 116 | 1 in 88K | 116 | Zekaj | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 72 | 1 in 76K | 72 | — | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | 30 | 1 in 141K | 30 | Zekaj | 14 |
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); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 292 | #4,470 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 116 | #6,414 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 72 | #20,023 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 30 | #18,390 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 27 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Zekaj?
- A machine transcription gives /tskʰaj/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Zekaj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Zekaj in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zekaj.
- How common is the name Zekaj?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 292 people named Zekaj in 2024, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Zekaj compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Zekaj is the 177th 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/zekajThe 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, “Zekaj” — the 177th most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.