Dritan
given name · Albanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dritan is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From dritë (“light”) + -an. Probably the suffix was voluntarely inserted to render it similar to Illyrian *Tritanus.
- ALAlbania1 in 668◐
- ITItaly1 in 43K
- USUnited States1 in 934K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈5.5K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 78 ●
- 1 in 668 ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
13K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Дритан 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●
From dritë (“light”) + -an. Probably the suffix was voluntarely inserted to render it similar to Illyrian *Tritanus.
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language 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 | #25 | 4,603 | 8.4K rec. | 1 in 668 | 4.6K | Dritan | 72 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,185 | 1.1K rec. | — | 1 | Dritan | 34 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 610 | 280 rec. | — | — | Dritan | 33 |
| MK North Macedonia | #858 | 366△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 5.8K | 366 | Дритан | 4 |
| US United States | — | 356 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 934K | 356 | Dritan | 78 |
| DE Germany | — | 311 | 296 rec. | — | listed | Dritan | 36 |
| GR Greece | — | 276 | 201 rec. | — | — | Dritan | 26 |
| CA Canada | — | 82 | 79 rec. | — | — | Dritan | 13 |
| BE Belgium | — | 71 | 69 rec. | — | — | Dritan | 5 |
| NO Norway | — | 69 | 8 rec. | — | 68 | Dritan | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 56 | 33 rec. | — | — | Dritan | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | 52 | 27 rec. | — | 3 | Dritan | 13 |
Roughly 4.6K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 668). 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●
- Albanian22K84%
- English9744%
- German6482%
- Croatian5952%
- French4332%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | 22,031 | 84% |
| English | 974 | 4% |
| German | 648 | 2% |
| Croatian | 595 | 2% |
| French | 433 | 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●
Dritan 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 odt, to defecate
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2004 | 11 |
| 2005 | 10 |
| 2006 | 10 |
| 2007 | 10 |
| 2008 | 13 |
| 2009 | 14 |
| 2010 | 14 |
| 2011 | 15 |
| 2012 | 15 |
| 2013 | 15 |
| 2014 | 18 |
| 2015 | 19 |
| 2016 | 22 |
| 2017 | 27 |
| 2018 | 30 |
| 2019 | 39 |
| 2020 | 39 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 17 years between 2004–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Dritan Hilab. 1966ALAlbanian publicist and diplomat
- Tani Stafsulab. 1981ALnot in their usual nameAlbanian-Finnish footballer
- Dritan Abazovicb. 1985MEprime-minister of Republic of Montenegro 2022–2023
- Dritan Qokuauthor
- Dritan HasaITresearcher
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 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 4.6K | #29 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 356 | #26,250 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 249 | #1,847 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 68 | #9,872 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 49 | #13,739 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 39 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 38 | #15,945 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 34 | #38,338 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 23 | #5,801 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #5,537 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1976 | 18 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1983 | 17 | — |
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 · 104 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dritan?
- We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Dritan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dritan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.6 thousand people bear Dritan in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled dritan.
- Where is Dritan most common?
- Dritan is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 668 people carrying it.
- How common is Dritan compared with other names?
- In Albania, Dritan is the 25th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Dritan a male or female name?
- Dritan 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 Dritan mean?
- Recorded meaning: From dritë (“light”) + -an. Probably the suffix was voluntarely inserted to render it similar to Illyrian *Tritanus.
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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, “Dritan” — the 25th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.