Gjocaj
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/d͡ʑɔt͡sa͡ɪ/(machine-generated) Albanian · model-generated
Gjocaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country.
- ALAlbania≈1 in 6.1Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 28K
- NONorway1 in 238K
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)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈970 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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:
Locally spelled Gjoçaj in AL Albania.
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.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gjocaj is found
(measured from records)Gjocaj 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 | #289 | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Gjocaj | 4 |
| AL Albania | #647 | ≈390 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Gjoçaj | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 302 | 1 in 28K | 302 | Gjocaj | 16 |
| SI Slovenia | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Gjocaj | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 604K | — | Gjocaj | 37 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈57 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Gjocaj | 9 |
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). 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)- Muharem GjocajALAlbanian kickboxer
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Gjocaj?
- In Albanian /d͡ʑɔt͡sa͡ɪ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gjocaj?
- Mondonomo estimates about 965 people named Gjocaj in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gjocaj. After it come Albania, Switzerland, Slovenia and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gjocaj?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 302 people named Gjocaj in 2024, about 1 in 28 thousand residents.
- How common is Gjocaj compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Gjocaj is the 289th most common surname of 4,329 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Gjocaj?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gjocajThe 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, “Gjocaj” — the 289th most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.