Spahiu
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Spahiu is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country. Recorded meaning: sipahi.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 1.1K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Spahiu itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
sipahi
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Spahiu 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 | #360 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Spahiu | 7 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Spahiu | 13 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 742 | 1 in 11K | 742 | Spahiu | 17 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 227K | — | Spahiu | 67 |
| US United States | — | 228 | 1 in 1.5M | 327 | Spahiu | 105 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Spahiu | 14 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 184as Спахиу | 1 in 12K | 184 | Spahiu | 3 |
| SI Slovenia | #166 | 85 | 1 in 25K | 85 | Spahiu | 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); State Statistical Office — living population names; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Spahiu is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, SPAHÍU1, spahii, s. m. Soldat dintr-un corp de cavalerie otomană recrutat din rândurile aristocrației militare.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
In Romanian, SPAHÍU2, spahii, s. m. Militar din vechea cavalerie indigenă a coloniilor franceze din nordul Africii.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bedri Spahiub. 1908ALAlbanian politician and general (1908-1998)
- Rexhep Spahiub. 1923ALAlbanian footballer
- Xhafer Spahiub. 1923ALAlbanian politician (1923-1999)
- Arsim Spahiub. 1942ALAlbanian historian
- Gabriel Spahiub. 1968RORomanian actor
- Hëna SpahiuALAlbanian archaeologist
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 19 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 742 | #1,666 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 327 | #65,511 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 228 | #82,613 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 85 | #5,060 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Spahiu mean, and where does it come from?
- sipahi Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Spahiu have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Spahiu in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled spahiu.
- How common is the name Spahiu?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 742 people named Spahiu in 2024, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Spahiu compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Spahiu is the 360th most common surname of 4,329 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/spahiuThe 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, “Spahiu” — the 360th most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.