Bujar

given name · Albanian · Latin script

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

Bujar is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: boyar, nobleman.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 675◐
  • XKKosovo1 in 989
  • SISlovenia1 in 20K

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

≈5.2K ●

across 8 countries

Sources
64 ●

12K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 675 ◐

Albania

Meaning & origin●

boyar, nobleman

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

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

Where Bujar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#264,5549.5K rec.1 in 6754.6KBujar51
XK Kosovo#163477586 rec.—5.9KBujar11
IT Italy—365350 rec.——Bujar20
US United States—300542 rec.1 in 1.1M300Bujar64
GB United Kingdom—23757 rec.——Bujar32
SE Sweden—191△24 rec.1 in 53K191Bujar17
CH Switzerland—124105 rec.——Bujar23
GR Greece—12282 rec.——Bujar9
SI Slovenia—107145 rec.1 in 20K107Bujar4
BE Belgium—5152 rec.—7Bujar8
DK Denmark—32—1 in 183K32——
RS Serbia—3211 rec.——Bujar10

Roughly 4.6K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 675). 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●

  • Albanian22K76%
  • German1.7K6%
  • English1K4%
  • Croatian6912%
  • French5872%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Albanian22,11076%
German1,6956%
English1,0204%
Croatian6912%
French5872%

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◐

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

  • German given name3.3K records spelled Bujar6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Büjar, Buejar

  • Croatian given name1.3K records spelled Bujar6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kosovo, United States, Croatia, Switzerland

    Languages: Croatian, Macedonian, Bulgarian

    Also written Bujâr

  • French given name712 records spelled Bujar3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland

    Also written Büjãr

33 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●

010020030019401960198020002020280 · 1984

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Bujar in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1934–2025
Yearrecords
19341
19371
19381
19391
19411
19421
19431
19441
19451
19464
19472
19484
19492
19505
19516
19525
19536
19544
195511
195612
195712
195811
195916
196018
196129
196229
196335
196430
196544
196640
196759
196862
196975
197075
197197
197286
1973100
1974145
1975159
1976171
1977195
1978204
1979246
1980240
1981263
1982261
1983255
1984280
1985258
1986230
1987270
1988212
1989192
1990169
1991187
1992173
1993135
1994132
1995103
199692
199765
199855
199940
200041
200134
200218
200319
200419
200515
200615
200712
200811
20097
20103
20112
20129
20133
20142
20155
20163
20175
20181
20192
20204
20214
20226
20244
20251

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 88 years between 1934–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19401960198020002020Bujar Kapexhiu, b. 1944Bujar Lako, b. 1946Bujar Bukoshi, b. 1947Bujar Dida, b. 1961Bujar Nishani, b. 1966Bujar Alimani, b. 1969Bujar Osmani, b. 1979Bujar Lika, b. 1992Bujar Pllana, b. 2001

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 28 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Bujar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—5.9K#40
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—4.6K#32
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020300#29,211
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1984280—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1987270—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1981263—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1982261—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1985258—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1983255—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1979246—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—244#4,128
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1980240—

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 · 159 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bujar?
We estimate roughly 5.2 thousand people bear Bujar (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Bujar have the most bearers?
We estimate about 4.6 thousand people bear Bujar in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bujar.
Where is Bujar most common?
Bujar is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 675 people carrying it.
How common is Bujar compared with other names?
In Albania, Bujar is the 26th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
Is Bujar a male or female name?
Bujar 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 Bujar mean?
Recorded meaning: boyar, nobleman
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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, “Bujar” — the 26th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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