Ylli

given name · Albanian · Latin script

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

Ylli is a given name, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Albanian and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From yll (“star”), probably related to Illyrian *Hyllis.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania1 in 850◐
  • XKKosovo1 in 6.5K
  • SISlovenia1 in 88K

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

≈4.0K ●

across 8 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
55 ●

11K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 850 ◐

Albania

Spellings & scripts●

YlliLatin · Albanian●17K records
ΥλλιGreek · Greek●0 records

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●

From yll (“star”), probably related to Illyrian *Hyllis.

Sources 2

Where in the world●

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

Where Ylli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#503,6178.8K rec.1 in 8503.6KYlli47
IT Italy—483502 rec.—1Ylli20
DE Germany—319312 rec.—1Ylli41
GB United Kingdom—292138 rec.——Ylli20
US United States—243832 rec.1 in 1.4M243Ylli55
AT Austria—17246 rec.—37Ylli20
GR Greece—163112 rec.——Ylli19
NO Norway—8110 rec.—80Ylli5
SE Sweden—75△19 rec.1 in 136K75Ylli5
XK Kosovo—7339 rec.—2.3KYlli7
CH Switzerland—5552 rec.—552Ylli9
BE Belgium—3033 rec.—1Ylli5

Roughly 3.6K people in Albania bear this name (about 1 in 850). 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●

  • Albanian17K85%
  • German5803%
  • English5423%
  • Finnish3872%
  • French3782%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Albanian17,21585%
German5803%
English5423%
Finnish3872%
French3782%

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●

Ylli 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 non, inflection of valda:

    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●

0501001501960198020002020103 · 2013

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Ylli in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1955–2025
Yearrecords
19551
19581
19641
19651
19721
19734
19741
19752
19764
19775
19782
19793
19807
19819
19826
19838
198413
198515
198616
198720
198818
198927
199010
199144
199243
199339
199438
199537
199658
199745
199854
199947
200055
200155
200269
200353
200459
200583
200667
200787
2008102
200986
201078
2011102
201290
2013103
201495
201574
201681
201761
201857
201953
202051
202141
202253
202338
202441
202532

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 58 years between 1955–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19201940196019802000Ylli Popa, b. 1930Ylli Vejsiu, b. 1941Ylli Bufi, b. 1948Ylli Asllani, b. 1959Ylli Demneri, b. 1961Ylli Shehu, b. 1966Ylli Shabani, b. 1982Ylli Shameti, b. 1984
  • Ylli Popab. 1930ALAlbanian physician and academician
  • Ylli Vejsiub. 1941ALAlbanian mathematician, economist, statistician, politician (1941-2015)
  • Ylli Bufib. 1948ALAlbanian politician and engineer
  • Ylli Asllanib. 1959ALAlbanian politician
  • Ylli Demnerib. 1961ALAlbanian writer
  • Ylli Shehub. 1966ALAlbanian association football player
  • Ylli Shabanib. 1982SESwedish association football player
  • Ylli Shametib. 1984ALAlbanian footballer
  • Ylli BajraktariUSPresident and CEO of the Special Competitive Studies Project
  • Ylli LamaALMember of the Assembly of the Republic of Albania

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 26 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Ylli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—3.6K#64
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—2.3K#314
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020243#33,663
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2013103—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2011102—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2008102—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)201495—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)201290—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)200787—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)200986—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)200583—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)201681—

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 140 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ylli?
We estimate roughly 4.0 thousand people bear Ylli (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Ylli have the most bearers?
We estimate about 3.6 thousand people bear Ylli in Albania, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled ylli.
Where is Ylli most common?
Ylli is densest in Albania, where the national register counts about 1 in 850 people carrying it.
How common is Ylli compared with other names?
In Albania, Ylli is the 50th most common given name of 12,508 given names recorded there.
Is Ylli a male or female name?
Ylli 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 Ylli mean?
Recorded meaning: From yll (“star”), probably related to Illyrian *Hyllis.
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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, “Ylli” — the 50th most common given name in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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