Drin
given name · Albanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Drin is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Albanian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: the river Drin (the longest river in Albania).
- ALAlbania1 in 5.6K◐
- XKKosovo1 in 16K
- SISlovenia1 in 88K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈675 ●
- Sources
- 37 ●
- 1 in 5.6K ◐
across 8 countries
1.1K records
Reference-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Drini in AL Albania, US United States, IT Italy and 2 more.
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●
the river Drin (the longest river in Albania)
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 | #525 | 550 | 797 rec. | 1 in 5.6K | 550 | Drini | 37 |
| US United States | — | 81 | 66 rec. | — | 20 | Drini | 34 |
| SE Sweden | — | 68△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 150K | 68 | — | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | 47 | 62 rec. | — | 6 | Drini | 7 |
| XK Kosovo | — | 30 | 36 rec. | — | 1.9K | Drin | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 24 | 15 rec. | 1 in 88K | 24 | Drin | 2 |
| DK Denmark | — | 16 | — | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| FI Finland | — | 12△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 464K | 25 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 10 | 10 rec. | — | 20 | Drini | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 10 | 6 rec. | — | — | Drini | 6 |
| RS Serbia | — | 8 | 3 rec. | — | — | Drin | 3 |
| BE Belgium | — | 5 | 5 rec. | — | 4 | Drin | 2 |
Roughly 550 people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 5.6K). 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●
- Albanian1.4K54%
- English29812%
- German2198%
- French1426%
- Indonesian542%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | 1,390 | 54% |
| English | 298 | 12% |
| German | 219 | 8% |
| French | 142 | 6% |
| Indonesian | 54 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Drin is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ace, to push something by using your shoulders
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, drink (served alcoholic beverage)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, soft mutation of trin
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Occitan, a little, a bit
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, inside
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 1 |
| 1976 | 1 |
| 1980 | 2 |
| 1981 | 2 |
| 1983 | 1 |
| 1984 | 4 |
| 1985 | 3 |
| 1987 | 3 |
| 1988 | 5 |
| 1989 | 6 |
| 1990 | 11 |
| 1991 | 7 |
| 1992 | 12 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1994 | 15 |
| 1995 | 16 |
| 1996 | 42 |
| 1997 | 44 |
| 1998 | 44 |
| 1999 | 38 |
| 2000 | 62 |
| 2001 | 45 |
| 2002 | 61 |
| 2003 | 48 |
| 2004 | 52 |
| 2005 | 56 |
| 2006 | 60 |
| 2007 | 52 |
| 2008 | 53 |
| 2009 | 69 |
| 2010 | 64 |
| 2011 | 64 |
| 2012 | 58 |
| 2013 | 66 |
| 2014 | 61 |
| 2015 | 73 |
| 2016 | 58 |
| 2017 | 74 |
| 2018 | 73 |
| 2019 | 77 |
| 2020 | 68 |
| 2021 | 68 |
| 2022 | 84 |
| 2023 | 85 |
| 2024 | 96 |
| 2025 | 93 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 46 years between 1970–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Drin Kokajb. 2003XKKosovan alpine skier
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 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1.9K | #387 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 348 | #1,245 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2024 | 96 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2025 | 93 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2023 | 85 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2022 | 84 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2019 | 77 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2017 | 74 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2018 | 73 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2015 | 73 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2009 | 69 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 68 | #11,111 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 148 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Drin?
- We estimate roughly 675 people bear Drin (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
- In which country does Drin have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 550 people bear Drin in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled drini.
- Where is Drin most common?
- Drin is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.6 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is Drin compared with other names?
- In Albania, Drin is the 525th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Drin a male or female name?
- Drin 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 Drin mean?
- Recorded meaning: the river Drin (the longest river in Albania)
Query this name via API
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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, “Drin” — the 525th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.