Azem

given name · Turkish · Latin script

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

Azem is a given name, most frequently recorded in Türkiye. In Kosovo it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Turkish and Albanian, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • TRTürkiye1 in 57K◐
  • XKKosovo1 in 513
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 3.4K

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

≈1.8K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
75 ●

18K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 3.4K ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

AzemLatin · Turkish●9.6K records
АземCyrillic · Macedonian●628 records

Locally spelled Азем 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Azem is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye—9,5629.7K rec.——Azem41
XK Kosovo#429201.1K rec.—3.5KAzem3
AL Albania—693—1 in 4.4K693——
MK North Macedonia#567622△52 rec.1 in 3.4K622Азем4
US United States—178715 rec.1 in 1.9M178Azem75
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#5081308 rec.——Azem8
SI Slovenia—111△9 rec.1 in 19K111Azem1
GB United Kingdom—9875 rec.——Azem13
SE Sweden—97△13 rec.1 in 105K97Azem5
SY Syria—94349 rec.——Azem11
IR Iran—5152 rec.——Azem3
IN India—4618 rec.——Azem10

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Turkish9.6K46%
  • Albanian3.6K17%
  • Croatian1.3K6%
  • German1K5%
  • English7784%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Turkish9,55946%
Albanian3,57417%
Croatian1,2806%
German1,0065%
English7784%

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◐

Azem is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Albanian given name3.7K records spelled Azem3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo, United States, Italy

    Also written Åžêm, Åzem

  • German given name3.3K records spelled Azem7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Netherlands

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Âzem, Àzem

  • Portuguese given name1.1K records spelled Azem5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written žêm, Åzèm, Ảzęm

  • Hindi given name819 records spelled Azem5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Pakistan, Türkiye, Bangladesh

    Languages: Hindi, Bangla, Urdu

    Also written আজেম, Àžem

  • Hungarian given name242 records spelled Azem2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary

    Also written Ăźēm

  • Russian given name178 records spelled Azem7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Азем, Азём

37 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.

Other recorded senses●

Azem is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In xsy, heart, mind

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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.

Over time●

02040608019001950200072 · 1969

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Azem in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1869–2025
Yearrecords
18691
18702
18741
18781
18812
18853
18861
18874
18881
18891
18902
18921
18931
18943
18956
18965
18971
18982
18991
19008
19014
19024
19036
19049
190511
19067
19075
190815
19097
191016
19111
19129
19138
191413
191512
191615
191710
191811
19197
192015
192110
19227
19237
192416
192512
192614
192711
192819
192917
193026
193132
193226
193326
193435
193531
193632
193731
193836
193933
194043
194127
194242
194342
194436
194545
194642
194748
194837
194938
195053
195139
195239
195345
195439
195559
195644
195748
195854
195940
196054
196152
196238
196339
196447
196543
196656
196751
196866
196972
197054
197157
197251
197346
197441
197559
197647
197741
197861
197950
198049
198141
198250
198340
198439
198535
198644
198741
198835
198959
199055
199129
199222
199318
199421
199519
199621
199723
199819
199911
200017
200115
200216
200314
200413
200515
200616
200718
20088
200914
201011
201111
201210
201317
201413
20157
201610
20175
20189
201910
20204
202112
20229
20236
20249
20252

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 145 years between 1869–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Azem Galica, b. 1889Azem Hajdini, b. 1924Azem Shkreli, b. 1938Azem Mullaliu, b. 1944Azem Vllasi, b. 1948Azem Syla, b. 1951Azem Hajdari, b. 1963Azem Maksutaj, b. 1975

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 42 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Azem
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—3.5K#157
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—693#708
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020178#40,852
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—155#45,135
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025111#707
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023108#695
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—105#1,460
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024105#721
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022102#698
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—97#8,724
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202093—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202192#744

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 249 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Azem?
We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Azem (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Azem have the most bearers?
Azem is most frequently recorded in Türkiye, where it is most often spelled azem.
How common is Azem compared with other names?
In Kosovo, Azem is the 42nd most common given name of 6,371 given names recorded there.
Is Azem a male or female name?
Azem 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.
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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, “Azem” — the 42nd most common given name in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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