Tefta
given name · Albanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Tefta is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Tosk version of the name of the Illyrian queen *Teuta, with the typical rendering of 'au' cluster in 'af/av' (cf. afsh), also evident in Latin borrowings (cf. kafshë, lavdi etc.).
- ALAlbania1 in 1.1K◐
- MKNorth Macedonia1 in 2.1K
- HRCroatia1 in 20K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.8K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 69 ●
- 1 in 1.1K ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
9.3K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Teuta in AL Albania, XK Kosovo, HR Croatia and 13 more and Теута 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●
Tosk version of the name of the Illyrian queen *Teuta, with the typical rendering of 'au' cluster in 'af/av' (cf. afsh), also evident in Latin borrowings (cf. kafshë, lavdi etc.).
Sources 1
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | #92 | 2,810 | 5.6K rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 2.8K | Teuta | 32 |
| MK North Macedonia | #363 | 993△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 2.1K | 993 | Теута | 7 |
| XK Kosovo | #153 | 490 | 614 rec. | — | 5K | Teuta | 6 |
| US United States | — | 425 | 638 rec. | 1 in 783K | 425 | Teuta | 69 |
| HR Croatia | — | 213 | 351 rec. | 1 in 20K | 213 | Teuta | 33 |
| SE Sweden | — | 198△ | 50 rec. | 1 in 52K | 198 | Teuta | 9 |
| IT Italy | — | 179 | 177 rec. | — | 2 | Teuta | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 105 | 74 rec. | — | — | Teuta | 16 |
| GR Greece | — | 101 | 76 rec. | — | — | Teuta | 10 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 68 | 66 rec. | 1 in 31K | 68 | Teuta | 4 |
| RS Serbia | — | 60 | 20 rec. | — | listed | Teuta | 12 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 53 | 64 rec. | — | — | Teuta | 9 |
Roughly 2.8K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 1.1K). 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●
- Albanian9.5K95%
- English2513%
- Indonesian401%
- French301%
- Greek301%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | 9,516 | 95% |
| English | 251 | 3% |
| Indonesian | 40 | 1% |
| French | 30 | 1% |
| Greek | 30 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Tefta Tashko-Koçob. 1910ALAlbanian artist (1910–1947)
- Tefta Camib. 1940ALAlbanian politician
- Tefta Radib. 1952Albanian journalist and news presenter (born 1952)
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 5 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 2.2K | #177 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 38 | #4,817 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1921 | 6 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1991 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1986 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1956 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1987 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1984 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1982 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1978 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2013 | 1 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 · 29 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Tefta?
- We estimate roughly 4.8 thousand people bear Tefta (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Tefta have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.8 thousand people bear Tefta in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled teuta.
- How common is Tefta compared with other names?
- In Albania, Tefta is the 92nd most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Tefta a male or female name?
- Tefta 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 Tefta mean?
- Recorded meaning: Tosk version of the name of the Illyrian queen *Teuta, with the typical rendering of 'au' cluster in 'af/av' (cf. afsh), also evident in Latin borrowings (cf. kafshë, lavdi etc.).
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Tefta” — the 92nd most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.