Bashkim

given name · Albanian · Latin script

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

Bashkim is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 19th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: union.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 596◐
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 1.6K
  • XKKosovo1 in 528

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

≈7.1K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
62 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 596 ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

BashkimLatin · Albanian●25K records
БашкимCyrillic · Macedonian●1.3K records

Locally spelled Башким 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●

union

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.

Where Bashkim is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#195,15713K rec.1 in 5965.2KBashkim47
MK North Macedonia#2801,290△6 rec.1 in 1.6K1.3KБашким6
XK Kosovo#48894793 rec.—6.2KBashkim6
IT Italy—367371 rec.—1Bashkim13
US United States—330672 rec.1 in 1M330Bashkim62
CH Switzerland—222129 rec.——Bashkim15
GB United Kingdom—17055 rec.——Bashkim22
SE Sweden—153△25 rec.1 in 67K153Bashkim8
GR Greece—11258 rec.——Bashkim12
SI Slovenia—83100 rec.1 in 25K83Bashkim2
BE Belgium—8066 rec.——Bashkim9
DK Denmark—36—1 in 163K36——

Roughly 5.2K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 596). 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●

  • Albanian25K80%
  • German2K6%
  • English1K3%
  • French6722%
  • Croatian4241%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Albanian24,68580%
German1,9516%
English1,0233%
French6722%
Croatian4241%

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◐

Bashkim is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian given name60 records spelled Bashkim4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in North Macedonia, Russia, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Башким, Башкім

34 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●

010020030019401960198020002020297 · 1974

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Bashkim in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1930–2025
Yearrecords
19301
19331
19371
19381
19393
19401
19435
194411
19459
19461
19479
194814
19498
19509
19518
195221
195330
195420
195522
195626
195734
195840
195952
196074
196179
196276
1963112
1964128
1965150
1966135
1967169
1968164
1969182
1970229
1971237
1972275
1973284
1974297
1975249
1976284
1977282
1978236
1979265
1980230
1981192
1982201
1983147
1984143
1985127
1986125
1987111
198871
198970
199062
199191
199268
199341
199438
199528
199620
199728
199826
199920
200019
200116
200223
20036
20046
200511
20064
20079
20083
20098
20105
20118
20123
20135
20145
20157
20165
20175
20182
20195
20203
20212
20225
20238
20243
20252

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 89 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●

1940196019802000Bashkim Gazidede, b. 1952Bashkim Hoxha, b. 1954Bashkim Shehu, b. 1955Bashkim Fino, b. 1962Bashkim Shaqiri, b. 1968Bashkim Jashari, b. 1977Bashkim Kadrii, b. 1991Bashkim Sukaj, b. 1992Bashkim Renneke, b. 1992

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 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Bashkim
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—6.2K#28
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—5.2K#23
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020330#27,622
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1974297—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1976284—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1973284—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1977282—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1972275—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1979265—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1975249—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1971237—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1978236—

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 151 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bashkim?
We estimate roughly 7.1 thousand people bear Bashkim (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Bashkim have the most bearers?
We estimate about 5.2 thousand people bear Bashkim in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bashkim.
How common is Bashkim compared with other names?
In Albania, Bashkim is the 19th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
Is Bashkim a male or female name?
Bashkim 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 Bashkim mean?
Recorded meaning: union
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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, “Bashkim” — the 19th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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