Arben

given name · Albanian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Arben is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From arbën (“Albanian”).

rarermore common
  • XKKosovo1 in 287◐
  • ALAlbania1 in 351
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈13K ●

across 12 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
119 ●

41K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 351 ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

ArbenLatin · Albanian●46K records
АрбенCyrillic · Macedonian●2K records

Locally spelled Арбен 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●

From arbën (“Albanian”).

Sources 2

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Arben is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#18,74824K rec.1 in 3518.7KArben70
DE Germany—2,4382.3K rec.—1Arben72
MK North Macedonia#1821,969△32 rec.1 in 1.1K2KАрбен25
XK Kosovo#61,6441.4K rec.—8.2KArben12
IT Italy—1,6111.5K rec.—2Arben38
GB United Kingdom—1,103556 rec.——Arben45
US United States—1,0475K rec.1 in 318K1KArben119
PH Philippines—752581 rec.——Arben16
CH Switzerland—502301 rec.——Arben37
NO Norway—41444 rec.—398Arben11
GR Greece—365222 rec.——Arben23
SE Sweden—358△138 rec.1 in 28K358Arben28

Roughly 8.7K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 351). 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●

  • Albanian46K73%
  • English3.6K6%
  • German3.1K5%
  • French1.5K2%
  • Croatian1.4K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Albanian45,56373%
English3,5686%
German3,0885%
French1,4612%
Croatian1,4382%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Arben is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name3.2K records spelled Arben5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ârbéñ, Arbën

  • Finnish given name272 records spelled Arben3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, United States

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Arbén

  • a separate given name97 records spelled Arben2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, Kosovo

    Also written Arbén

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02004006001960198020002020556 · 1979

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Arben in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1948–2025
Yearrecords
19481
19521
19561
19571
19583
19593
19603
19624
19632
19647
196511
196615
196720
196852
196978
197095
1971131
1972175
1973224
1974331
1975363
1976472
1977546
1978538
1979556
1980489
1981465
1982411
1983360
1984355
1985293
1986296
1987239
1988230
1989204
1990125
1991126
1992101
1993109
1994106
199575
199655
199782
199855
199940
200036
200151
200231
200338
200428
200522
200620
200716
200811
200917
201016
20115
201215
20137
20148
20157
20164
20173
20185
20192
20204
20213
20222
20233
20243
20252

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 71 years between 1948–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Arben Davitian, b. 1895Arben Xhaferi, b. 1948Arben Imami, b. 1958Arben Minga, b. 1959Arben Malaj, b. 1961Arben Arbëri, b. 1964Arben Shehu, b. 1967Arben Ahmetaj, b. 1969Arben Bajraktaraj, b. 1973Arben Zharku, b. 1982

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 37 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Arben
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—8.7K#1
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—8.2K#5
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201K#11,939
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1979556—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1977546—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1978538—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1980489—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1976472—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1981465—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1982411—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—398#2,937
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1975363—

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • 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 · 193 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Arben?
We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Arben (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Arben have the most bearers?
We estimate about 8.7 thousand people bear Arben in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled arben.
How common is Arben compared with other names?
In Albania, Arben is the most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
Is Arben a male or female name?
Arben 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 Arben mean?
Recorded meaning: From arbën (“Albanian”).
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Arben” — the most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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