Afrim
given name · Albanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Afrim is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country. In Kosovo it is the 5th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: approach.
- XKKosovo1 in 275◐
- MKNorth Macedonia1 in 1.3K
- ALAlbania1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.4K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 72 ●
- 1 in 1.3K ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
13K records
Official registry-verified
North Macedonia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Африм in MK North Macedonia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
approach
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | #168 | 2,035 | 4.9K rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 2K | Afrim | 44 |
| XK Kosovo | #5 | 1,713 | 2.1K rec. | — | 7.4K | Afrim | 11 |
| MK North Macedonia | #228 | 1,596△ | 16 rec. | 1 in 1.3K | 1.6K | Африм | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | 490 | 468 rec. | — | — | Afrim | 18 |
| US United States | — | 292 | 756 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 292 | Afrim | 72 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 259 | 181 rec. | — | — | Afrim | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 245 | 62 rec. | — | — | Afrim | 25 |
| SE Sweden | — | 224△ | 41 rec. | 1 in 46K | 224 | Afrim | 12 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 131 | 109 rec. | 1 in 16K | 131 | Afrim | 3 |
| RS Serbia | — | 108 | 58 rec. | — | listed | Afrim | 11 |
| GR Greece | — | 107 | 74 rec. | — | — | Afrim | 22 |
| BE Belgium | — | 91 | 71 rec. | — | 6 | Afrim | 6 |
Roughly 2K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 1.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Albanian12K55%
- German2.7K13%
- English1.3K6%
- Croatian1.2K6%
- French9444%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | 11,725 | 55% |
| German | 2,746 | 13% |
| English | 1,320 | 6% |
| Croatian | 1,180 | 6% |
| French | 944 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 1 |
| 1944 | 1 |
| 1945 | 1 |
| 1946 | 2 |
| 1947 | 1 |
| 1948 | 3 |
| 1949 | 4 |
| 1950 | 7 |
| 1951 | 15 |
| 1952 | 20 |
| 1953 | 16 |
| 1954 | 19 |
| 1955 | 20 |
| 1956 | 32 |
| 1957 | 41 |
| 1958 | 47 |
| 1959 | 65 |
| 1960 | 82 |
| 1961 | 110 |
| 1962 | 166 |
| 1963 | 248 |
| 1964 | 280 |
| 1965 | 317 |
| 1966 | 336 |
| 1967 | 307 |
| 1968 | 320 |
| 1969 | 343 |
| 1970 | 306 |
| 1971 | 317 |
| 1972 | 339 |
| 1973 | 312 |
| 1974 | 313 |
| 1975 | 277 |
| 1976 | 282 |
| 1977 | 263 |
| 1978 | 263 |
| 1979 | 183 |
| 1980 | 184 |
| 1981 | 172 |
| 1982 | 161 |
| 1983 | 146 |
| 1984 | 130 |
| 1985 | 118 |
| 1986 | 108 |
| 1987 | 114 |
| 1988 | 82 |
| 1989 | 66 |
| 1990 | 48 |
| 1991 | 49 |
| 1992 | 48 |
| 1993 | 31 |
| 1994 | 24 |
| 1995 | 26 |
| 1996 | 18 |
| 1997 | 25 |
| 1998 | 23 |
| 1999 | 18 |
| 2000 | 14 |
| 2001 | 18 |
| 2002 | 12 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 11 |
| 2007 | 4 |
| 2008 | 3 |
| 2009 | 12 |
| 2010 | 4 |
| 2011 | 5 |
| 2012 | 6 |
| 2013 | 3 |
| 2014 | 7 |
| 2015 | 3 |
| 2016 | 3 |
| 2017 | 11 |
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2019 | 5 |
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2021 | 6 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 83 years between 1930–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Afrim Latifib. 1953ALAlbanian karateka
- Afrim Qendrob. 1967ALAlbanian politician
- Afrim Kuçib. 1970ALassociation football player
- Afrim Gashib. 1977MKpolitician from North Macedonia
- Afrim Takub. 1989ALAlbanian footballer
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●
Attested in 36 sources across 20 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 7.4K | #13 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2K | #196 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1969 | 343 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1972 | 339 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1966 | 336 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1968 | 320 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1971 | 317 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1965 | 317 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1974 | 313 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1973 | 312 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1967 | 307 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1970 | 306 | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 2026-09-12 data build · 183 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Afrim?
- We estimate roughly 4.4 thousand people bear Afrim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Afrim have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.0 thousand people bear Afrim in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled afrim.
- How common is Afrim compared with other names?
- In Albania, Afrim is the 168th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Afrim a male or female name?
- Afrim is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Afrim mean?
- Recorded meaning: approach
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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, “Afrim” — the 168th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.