Shqipe

Name: Shqipe: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

given name · Albanian · Latin script

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

Shqipe is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country. In Kosovo it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: eagle.

rarermore common

ALAlbania1 in 2.2K◐
XKKosovo1 in 596
SISlovenia1 in 54K

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

: ≈1.8K ●
Sources: 63 ●
: 1 in 2.2K ◐

Meaning & origin●

eagle

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 Shqipe is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
AL Albania	#292	1,374	3.3K rec.	1 in 2.2K	1.4K	Shqipe	27
XK Kosovo	#61	792	541 rec.	—	6.2K	Shqipe	7
US United States	—	194	301 rec.	1 in 1.7M	194	Shqipe	63
SE Sweden	—	185△	50 rec.	1 in 55K	185	Shqipe	13
IT Italy	—	110	136 rec.	—	1	Shqipe	12
CH Switzerland	—	109	82 rec.	—	—	Shqipe	17
SI Slovenia	—	39	60 rec.	1 in 54K	40	Shqipe	2
GB United Kingdom	—	32	15 rec.	—	—	Shqipe	13
BE Belgium	—	29	33 rec.	—	—	Shqipe	6
RS Serbia	—	28	9 rec.	—	—	Shqipe	8
DK Denmark	—	26	—	1 in 226K	26	—	—
FI Finland	—	25△	7 rec.	1 in 223K	60	—	3
HR Croatia	—	17	16 rec.	—	—	Shqipe	5
CZ Czechia	—	2	—	1 in 5.4M	2	—	—
IS Iceland	—	1	—	1 in 351K	1	—	—
NO Norway	—	—	16 rec.	—	242	—	9
AT Austria	—	—	—	—	7	—	—
AU Australia	—	—	—	—	1	—	—

Roughly 1.4K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 2.2K). 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●

Albanian7.5K71%
German9369%
French4064%
English3714%
Norwegian Bokmål2422%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
Albanian	7,550	71%
German	936	9%
French	406	4%
English	371	4%
Norwegian Bokmål	242	2%

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◐

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

German given name1.6K records spelled Shqipe4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Kosovo
Languages: German, English, Dutch
Also written Shqípé
French given name431 records spelled Shqipe2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States
Also written Shqipé
Hindi given name31 records spelled Shqipe3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Shqìpe

31 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●

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Shqipe in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1932–2025
Year	records
1932	1
1942	1
1944	4
1945	3
1946	2
1947	3
1948	6
1949	7
1950	4
1951	5
1952	8
1953	4
1954	8
1955	9
1956	6
1957	12
1958	8
1959	15
1960	16
1961	26
1962	30
1963	23
1964	21
1965	30
1966	40
1967	56
1968	100
1969	148
1970	124
1971	167
1972	171
1973	143
1974	170
1975	160
1976	138
1977	160
1978	146
1979	183
1980	186
1981	271
1982	375
1983	384
1984	450
1985	414
1986	312
1987	269
1988	211
1989	206
1990	181
1991	159
1992	135
1993	81
1994	56
1995	52
1996	45
1997	37
1998	43
1999	41
2000	40
2001	22
2002	14
2003	14
2004	9
2005	8
2006	12
2007	10
2008	6
2009	4
2010	4
2011	4
2012	7
2013	4
2014	3
2015	2
2016	2
2017	1
2018	1
2019	1
2020	3
2021	1
2022	1
2024	1
2025	2

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 83 years between 1932–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

Shqipe Alishani-Goranib. 1974XKKosovo politician

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 20 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Shqipe
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	—	6.2K	#29
AL Albania	INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)	—	1.4K	#346
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1984	450	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1985	414	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1983	384	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1982	375	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1986	312	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1981	271	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1987	269	—
NO Norway	SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)	—	242	#4,164
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1988	211	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1989	206	—
US United States	Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex	2020	194	#39,134
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1980	186	—
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	185	#5,528
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1979	183	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1990	181	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1972	171	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1974	170	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2020	167	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1971	167	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1977	160	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1975	160	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1991	159	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1969	148	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1978	146	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1973	143	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1976	138	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1992	135	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1970	124	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1968	100	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1993	81	—
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	60	#7,581
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1994	56	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1967	56	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1995	52	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1996	45	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1998	43	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1999	41	—
SI Slovenia	stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)	—	40	#2,471
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2000	40	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1966	40	—
SI Slovenia	SURS — resident population given names	2025	39	#1,232
SI Slovenia	SURS — resident population given names	2016	37	#1,119
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1997	37	—
SI Slovenia	SURS — resident population given names	2024	36	#1,283
SI Slovenia	SURS — resident population given names	2018	36	#1,178
SI Slovenia	SURS — resident population given names	2023	35	#1,300
SI Slovenia	SURS — resident population given names	2019	35	#1,208
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	26	#4,191
FI Finland	DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)	—	25	—
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	10	#51,425
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)	2024	7	#1,868
US United States	SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)	1990	6	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2025	2	—
CZ Czechia	MVČR — living population register 2017	—	2	#28,548
IS Iceland	Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)	2026	1	#31,180
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)	2024	1	#3,482
IT Italy	ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)	2024	1	#21,421
AU Australia	SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present)	1972	1	—

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.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Shqipe?: We estimate roughly 1.8 thousand people bear Shqipe (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Shqipe have the most bearers?: We estimate about 1.4 thousand people bear Shqipe in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled shqipe.
How common is Shqipe compared with other names?: In Albania, Shqipe is the 292nd most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
Is Shqipe a male or female name?: Shqipe 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 Shqipe mean?: Recorded meaning: eagle

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. 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, “Shqipe” — the 292nd most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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