Arbesa
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/ɑrbɛsɑ/(machine-generated) Albanian · model-generated
Arbesa is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country.
- ALAlbania1 in 83K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 234K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Arbesa 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.
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: ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); SURS — resident population given names; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Arbesa?
- In Albanian /ɑrbɛsɑ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Arbesa a male or female name?
- Arbesa is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Kosovo (ASK Kosovo).
- Which countries have the most people named Arbesa?
- Mondonomo estimates about 203 people named Arbesa in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled arbesa. After it come Albania, Sweden, Italy and Austria; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Arbesa?
- In Albania, the national register counted 37 people named Arbesa, about 1 in 83 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Arbesa?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arbesaThe 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, “Arbesa”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.