Gjini
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gjini is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common surname. Recorded meaning: tribe, clan, kin.
- ALAlbania≈1 in 731(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 4.2K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 26K
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)
- Sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 731 (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,200 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
tribe, clan, kin
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gjini 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 | #69 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 731 | — | Gjini | 47 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Gjini | 28 |
| XK Kosovo | #899 | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | 9 | Gjini | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 325 | 1 in 26K | 325 | Gjini | 6 |
| US United States | — | 245 | 1 in 1.4M | 425 | Gjini | 69 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 25 | 1 in 84K | 25 | Gjini | 2 |
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); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lucie Gjinib. 1994ALAlbanian association football player
- Erida GjiniGBresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 425 | #52,687 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 325 | #4,051 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 245 | #78,040 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 25 | #11,922 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- What does the name Gjini mean, and where does it come from?
- tribe, clan, kin Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Gjini have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.2 thousand people named Gjini in Albania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gjini.
- How common is the name Gjini?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 325 people named Gjini in 2024, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Gjini compared with other names?
- In Albania, Gjini is the 69th most common surname of 16,055 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/gjiniThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Gjini” — the 69th most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.