Yll

given name · Albanian · Latin script

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

Yll is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United States. It appears chiefly in Albanian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: star.

rarermore common

ALAlbania1 in 36K◐
SISlovenia1 in 46K
ATAustria1 in 133K

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

Meaning & origin●

star

Sources 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Where Yll is recorded, by country
Country		Share of this name
US United States	268	19%
AL Albania	243	17%
FR France	139	10%
AT Austria	124	9%
SI Slovenia	105	7%

≈879 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

Albanian45832%
German22916%
English18713%
French14911%
Finnish604%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
Albanian	458	32%
German	229	16%
English	187	13%
French	149	11%
Finnish	60	4%

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●

Yll 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 English, Initialism of Years of life lost.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ISO 639-3 language code for Yil.
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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Yll in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1934–2025
Year	records
1934	1
1950	1
1954	1
1955	1
1959	1
1961	1
1963	3
1964	1
1965	1
1966	1
1967	3
1969	4
1970	2
1971	4
1972	4
1973	2
1975	8
1976	4
1977	4
1978	3
1979	9
1980	7
1981	11
1982	9
1983	21
1984	26
1985	26
1986	19
1987	24
1988	24
1989	22
1990	19
1991	17
1992	18
1993	18
1994	24
1995	15
1996	22
1997	28
1998	19
1999	23
2000	48
2001	55
2002	73
2003	52
2004	92
2005	91
2006	100
2007	109
2008	141
2009	149
2010	139
2011	147
2012	156
2013	129
2014	129
2015	126
2016	101
2017	90
2018	86
2019	109
2020	83
2021	90
2022	101
2023	108
2024	72
2025	59

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 67 years between 1934–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

Yll Limanib. 1994XKKosovo-Albanian singer

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 24 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Yll
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	—	3K	#197
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2012	156	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2009	149	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2011	147	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2008	141	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2010	139	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2014	129	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2013	129	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2015	126	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2019	109	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2007	109	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2023	108	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2022	101	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2016	101	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2006	100	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2004	92	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2005	91	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2021	90	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2017	90	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2018	86	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2020	83	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2002	73	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2024	72	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2025	59	—
ES Spain	INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)	—	56	#41,159
ES Spain	INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)	—	56	#40,981
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2001	55	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2003	52	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	2000	48	—
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)	2024	36	#1,263
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	35	#13,259
AL Albania	INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)	—	32	#5,588
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1997	28	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1985	26	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1984	26	—
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	25	#21,321
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1994	24	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1988	24	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1987	24	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1999	23	—
SI Slovenia	stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)	—	22	#3,493
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1996	22	—
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	1989	22	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2020	21	—
SI Slovenia	SURS — resident population given names	2025	18	#1,922
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	15	#42,197
NO Norway	SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)	—	9	#25,039
FI Finland	DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)	—	9	—
US United States	SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)	2009	5	—
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)	—	4	#19,435
PL Poland	dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)	2026	4	#22,878
DK Denmark	Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)	—	3	#14,577
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)	2024	2	#1,801
XK Kosovo	ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)	—	1	#197
IT Italy	ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)	2024	1	#24,742
EC Ecuador	INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)	1964	1	—
DE Germany	Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene	2018	1	—
SE Sweden	SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)	2007	—	—
DE Germany	Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen	2025	—	—
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement)	—	—	—

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 Yll?: Our records include 879 bearers of Yll across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Yll have the most bearers?: Yll is most frequently recorded in the United States.
Is Yll a male or female name?: Yll 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 Yll mean?: Recorded meaning: star

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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, “Yll”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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