Drita

given name · Albanian · Latin script

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

Drita is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: inflection of dritë (“light”):.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 431◐
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 1.8K
  • USUnited States1 in 558K

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

≈9.3K ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
68 ●

21K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 431 ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

DritaLatin · Albanian●32K records
ДритаCyrillic · Macedonian●1.2K records

Locally spelled Дрита 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●

inflection of dritë (“light”):

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world●

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

Where Drita is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#77,12716K rec.1 in 4317.1KDrita40
MK North Macedonia#2961,202△2 rec.1 in 1.8K1.2KДрита3
US United States—5961.1K rec.1 in 558K596Drita68
XK Kosovo#111577821 rec.—5.3KDrita5
IT Italy—271275 rec.—1Drita9
SE Sweden—174△40 rec.1 in 59K174Drita7
CH Switzerland—8365 rec.——Drita8
GB United Kingdom—7151 rec.——Drita12
HR Croatia—69153 rec.1 in 61K69Drita20
SI Slovenia—6451 rec.1 in 33K69Drita2
BE Belgium—4944 rec.——Drita6
RS Serbia—4127 rec.——Drita11

Roughly 7.1K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 431). 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●

  • Albanian32K81%
  • English2K5%
  • Croatian1.9K5%
  • German7992%
  • French5111%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Albanian31,63381%
English1,9875%
Croatian1,8605%
German7992%
French5111%

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◐

Drita is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name3.3K records spelled Drita10 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Drite, Dritë

  • Hungarian given name193 records spelled Drita2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, United States, Italy

    Also written Drite

45 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●

Drita is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Slovenian, second-person dual imperative of dreti

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vec, feminine singular of drito

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, to defecate

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Norwegian Bokmål, Very drunk

    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●

05010015020019401960198020002020187 · 1965

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Drita in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1925–2025
Yearrecords
19251
19321
19344
19373
19383
19392
19401
19414
19425
19439
19447
194511
194614
194714
194813
194923
195020
195132
195237
195342
195434
195559
195647
195770
195881
195987
1960122
1961144
1962143
1963168
1964144
1965187
1966163
1967182
1968150
1969174
1970174
1971182
1972180
1973185
1974167
1975166
1976183
1977152
1978133
1979138
1980115
1981129
1982112
198398
1984104
198588
198692
198779
198870
198955
199038
199138
199239
199340
199434
199529
199639
199737
199825
199910
200026
200119
200228
200313
20048
20059
20068
200713
200812
20098
20106
20116
20125
20134
20144
20154
20166
20175
20183
20196
20202
20218
20221
20234
20243
20257

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 92 years between 1925–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

192019401960198020002020Drita Pelingu, b. 1926Drita Agolli, b. 1927Drita Halimi-Statovci, b. 1945Drita Haxhiraj, b. 1947Drita Çomo, b. 1958Drita Ziri, b. 2005

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 29 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Drita
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—7.1K#7
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—5.3K#51
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020596#18,161
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1965187—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1973185—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1976183—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1971182—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1967182—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1972180—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—174#5,784
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1970174—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1969174—

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 174 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Drita?
We estimate roughly 9.3 thousand people bear Drita (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Drita have the most bearers?
We estimate about 7.1 thousand people bear Drita in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled drita.
Where is Drita most common?
Drita is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 431 people carrying it.
How common is Drita compared with other names?
In Albania, Drita is the 7th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
Is Drita a male or female name?
Drita is a female 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 Drita mean?
Recorded meaning: inflection of dritë (“light”):
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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, “Drita” — the 7th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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