Zogaj
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zogaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Zogaj (a settlement in Shkodër, Albania).
- SISlovenia1 in 9.2K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 16K
- NONorway1 in 65K
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
- 3 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
532 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Zogaj (a settlement in Shkodër, Albania)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zogaj 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 532 | 1 in 16K | 532 | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | 229 | 1 in 9.2K | 229 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 138 | 1 in 74K | 138 | — | 2 |
| NO Norway | 84 | 1 in 65K | 84 | — | — |
| HR Croatia | 31 | 1 in 136K | 37 | — | — |
532 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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)
- Preç Zogajb. 1957ALAlbanian poet and writer
- Idriz Zogajb. 1975mnemonist/memory athlete
- Silvio Zogajb. 1997ALAlbanian association football player
- Ajete ZogajALAlbanian journalist
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 15 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 532 | #2,425 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 229 | #1,823 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 138 | #5,603 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 84 | #17,791 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 37 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 31 | #18,051 |
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 Zogaj mean, and where does it come from?
- Zogaj (a settlement in Shkodër, Albania) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Zogaj have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 532 people named Zogaj, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zogaj most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zogaj is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 9.2 thousand people — even though Switzerland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zogaj?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 532 people named Zogaj in 2024, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Zogaj?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zogajThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Zogaj”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.