Kotarja
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɔtˈɑrjɑ/(machine-generated) Albanian · model-generated
Kotarja is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country.
- ALAlbania≈1 in 8.6Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 13M
- ITItaly≈1 in 2.6Mfew records
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
- 19 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈280 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: reference-verified
Albania, 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)Kotarja 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 | #828 | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Kotarja | 19 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Kotarja | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 11M | — | Kotarja | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #270,772 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kotarja?
- In Albanian /kɔtˈɑrjɑ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kotarja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 276 people named Kotarja in Albania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kotarja.
- How common is the name Kotarja?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Kotarja in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
- How common is Kotarja compared with other names?
- In Albania, Kotarja is the 828th 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/kotarjaThe 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, “Kotarja” — the 828th most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.