Metaj
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mˈɛta͡ɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Metaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 30K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 49K
- SESweden1 in 73K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
281 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
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)
Metaj 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.
281 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Shkodran Metajb. 1988XKDutch footballer
- Lorenco Metajb. 1994ALAlbanian association football player
- Valentina Metajb. 2004SESwedish association football player
- Emine MetajFemale hero of Albania
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 281 | #4,649 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 140 | #5,558 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 60 | #22,931 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 43 | #8,501 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 42 | #29,525 |
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
- How do you pronounce Metaj?
- A machine transcription gives /mˈɛta͡ɪ/ (IPA) for Albanian.
- In which country does Metaj have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 281 people named Metaj, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled metaj.
- Where is Metaj most common?
- Metaj is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 30 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Metaj?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 281 people named Metaj in 2024, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
- How common is Metaj compared with other names?
- In Albania, Metaj is the 206th most common surname of 16,055 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Metaj?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/metajThe 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, “Metaj” — the 206th most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.