Skender

given name · Albanian · Latin script

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

Skender is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: belt.

rarermore common
  • XKKosovo1 in 339◐
  • ALAlbania1 in 742
  • USUnited States1 in 1M

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

≈5.5K ●

across 10 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
72 ●

17K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 742 ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

SkenderLatin · Albanian●15K records
ᲡკენდერGeorgian · Georgian●32 records
СкендерCyrillic · Bulgarian●28 records
ΣκενδερGreek · Greek●0 records

Locally spelled Скендер in KZ Kazakhstan, RU Russia.

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●

belt

Sources 1

  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Skender is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#784,1445.1K rec.1 in 7424.1KSkender44
XK Kosovo#91,3912.2K rec.—6KSkender7
MK North Macedonia—713△3 rec.1 in 3K713—4
HR Croatia—6033.2K rec.—1.1KSkender52
US United States—3281.1K rec.1 in 1M387Skender72
IT Italy—236241 rec.—1Skender19
SE Sweden—172△32 rec.1 in 59K172Skender11
GB United Kingdom—16753 rec.——Skender19
CH Switzerland—12579 rec.—20Skender11
SI Slovenia—9871 rec.1 in 21K98Skender6
RS Serbia—9866 rec.—listedSkender13
GR Greece—7556 rec.——Skender19

Roughly 4.1K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 742). 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●

  • Albanian15K65%
  • Croatian1.5K7%
  • English1.4K6%
  • German1.4K6%
  • French1K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Albanian14,96265%
Croatian1,4917%
English1,4196%
German1,3806%
French1,0064%

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◐

Skender is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name7.4K records spelled Skender9 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Skënder, Škender

  • French given name1.3K records spelled Skender3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, United States

    Also written Skënder

  • Spanish given name594 records spelled Skender6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, Guatemala, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Skënder, Skênder

  • Arabic given name175 records spelled Skender3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kosovo, Algeria, Türkiye, Egypt

    Also written Skéndër, Skënder

  • a separate given name136 records spelled Skender2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Skënder

  • Polish given name130 records spelled Skender2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States

    Also written Skënder

32 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●

Skender is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, männl. Vom., albanische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Kurdish, a male given name, equivalent to English Alexander

    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●

0100200300190019502000257 · 1969

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Skender in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1881–2025
Yearrecords
18811
18901
19001
19111
19131
19171
19201
19211
19261
19273
19283
19294
19305
19313
19323
19337
19346
19356
193610
19375
193810
193913
194016
194118
194223
194333
194437
194542
194643
194747
194847
194962
195085
195177
195285
195391
1954101
1955115
1956129
1957108
1958132
1959146
1960168
1961172
1962181
1963164
1964175
1965183
1966172
1967204
1968251
1969257
1970219
1971214
1972206
1973171
1974166
1975171
1976117
1977152
1978100
197992
198077
198172
198274
198379
198457
198544
198661
198747
198842
198921
199023
199126
199222
199315
199412
19958
199611
199713
19987
199912
20008
200113
20028
20034
20045
20055
200610
200712
20085
200910
201016
20117
20129
201310
201412
20157
201610
20177
20185
20199
20203
20217
20226
20232
20243
20256

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 108 years between 1881–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Skender Pasha, b. 1434Skender Kulenović, b. 1910Skender Fani, b. 1940Skender Temali, b. 1946Isgandar Hamidov, b. 1948Skender Shengyli, b. 1960Skender Asani, b. 1972Skender Loshi, b. 1999

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 45 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Skender
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—6K#38
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20211.1K#515
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021982—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020387#56,914
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020328#27,750
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000322#58,849
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1969257—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1968251—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1970219—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)1971214—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010206#89,753
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—206#4,717

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 · 225 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Skender?
We estimate roughly 5.5 thousand people bear Skender (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Skender have the most bearers?
We estimate about 4.1 thousand people bear Skender in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled skender.
How common is Skender compared with other names?
In Albania, Skender is the 78th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
Is Skender a male or female name?
Skender 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 Skender mean?
Recorded meaning: belt
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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, “Skender” — the 78th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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