Valbona
given name · Albanian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Valbona is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and English, written in the Latin script.
- ALAlbania1 in 464◐
- USUnited States1 in 570K
- XKKosovo1 in 1.2K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈8.1K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 98 ●
- 1 in 464 ◐
across 12 countries
recorded for this name
20K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Valbone in XK Kosovo, FR France and Валбона 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages 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 | #10 | 6,621 | 14K rec. | 1 in 464 | 6.6K | Valbona | 52 |
| DE Germany | — | 748 | 714 rec. | — | 1 | Valbona | 47 |
| MK North Macedonia | #546 | 686△ | 8 rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 686 | Валбона | 6 |
| US United States | — | 584 | 2K rec. | 1 in 570K | 584 | Valbona | 98 |
| IT Italy | — | 572 | 539 rec. | — | 2 | Valbona | 31 |
| XK Kosovo | #227 | 386 | 477 rec. | — | 4.2K | Valbone | 7 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 242 | 195 rec. | — | — | Valbona | 25 |
| GR Greece | — | 160 | 102 rec. | — | — | Valbona | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 158 | 133 rec. | — | — | Valbona | 13 |
| FR France | — | 144 | 135 rec. | — | — | Valbone | 29 |
| SE Sweden | — | 133△ | 57 rec. | 1 in 77K | 133 | Valbona | 8 |
| BE Belgium | — | 92 | 80 rec. | — | — | Valbona | 10 |
Roughly 6.6K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 464). 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●
- Albanian30K86%
- English1.2K3%
- German6162%
- French5872%
- Italian4211%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Albanian | 30,369 | 86% |
| English | 1,167 | 3% |
| German | 616 | 2% |
| French | 587 | 2% |
| Italian | 421 | 1% |
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●
Valbona 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 Asturian, Valbona (a town in the municipality of Siero, Asturias, in northwestern Spain)
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 |
|---|---|
| 1947 | 1 |
| 1951 | 2 |
| 1952 | 1 |
| 1953 | 3 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1955 | 1 |
| 1956 | 2 |
| 1957 | 1 |
| 1958 | 2 |
| 1959 | 3 |
| 1960 | 2 |
| 1961 | 3 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 9 |
| 1964 | 9 |
| 1965 | 12 |
| 1966 | 10 |
| 1967 | 22 |
| 1968 | 32 |
| 1969 | 27 |
| 1970 | 55 |
| 1971 | 49 |
| 1972 | 98 |
| 1973 | 83 |
| 1974 | 96 |
| 1975 | 106 |
| 1976 | 110 |
| 1977 | 135 |
| 1978 | 132 |
| 1979 | 115 |
| 1980 | 106 |
| 1981 | 105 |
| 1982 | 129 |
| 1983 | 109 |
| 1984 | 102 |
| 1985 | 90 |
| 1986 | 106 |
| 1987 | 103 |
| 1988 | 104 |
| 1989 | 94 |
| 1990 | 74 |
| 1991 | 51 |
| 1992 | 64 |
| 1993 | 54 |
| 1994 | 52 |
| 1995 | 41 |
| 1996 | 39 |
| 1997 | 37 |
| 1998 | 26 |
| 1999 | 22 |
| 2000 | 27 |
| 2001 | 19 |
| 2002 | 21 |
| 2003 | 9 |
| 2004 | 3 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 6 |
| 2007 | 4 |
| 2008 | 4 |
| 2009 | 3 |
| 2010 | 5 |
| 2011 | 2 |
| 2012 | 3 |
| 2013 | 5 |
| 2014 | 5 |
| 2015 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2024 | 1 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 73 years between 1947–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Valbona Jakovab. 1953ITItalian writer
- Valbona Selimllarib. 1973ALAlbanian model
- Valbona Imamib. 1975ALactor
- Valbona Mehmetib. 1989CHSwiss association football player
- Valbona Ismailib. 2003DEGerman volleyball player
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 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 6.6K | #11 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 2.8K | #232 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 584 | #18,452 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 218 | #4,503 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1977 | 135 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 133 | #7,023 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1978 | 132 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1982 | 129 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1979 | 115 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 113 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1976 | 110 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1983 | 109 | — |
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 · 144 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Valbona?
- We estimate roughly 8.1 thousand people bear Valbona (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Valbona have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 6.6 thousand people bear Valbona in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled valbona.
- Where is Valbona most common?
- Valbona is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 464 people carrying it.
- How common is Valbona compared with other names?
- In Albania, Valbona is the 10th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
- Is Valbona a male or female name?
- Valbona 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.
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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, “Valbona” — the 10th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.