Names of Kosovo XK

ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) records Dua as the commonest given name in Kosovo; the names that most distinguish Kosovo from the rest of the world are Beriša, Krasniqi and Gashi.

Written in Albanian, Serbian.

Population
1.9M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
5.6K
BBuilt from 1 official register (2025), 5,551 name forms in our corpus, 10 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Kosovo are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Kosovo included.

How names work in Kosovo

2 naming traditions are in use in Kosovo, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Kosovo

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1

This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.

ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), 2025 — 2,513 given names counted over residents.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Dua286—
2Ajla283—
3Troi240—
4Hana210—
5Mal198—
6Malik196—
7Nea193—
8Luna186—
9Amar181—
10Nil170—
11Jon167—
12Bora155—
13Mael152—
14Noar151—
15Diell140—
16Siar140—
17Inara131—
18Rejan129—
19Amra126—
20Akil120—

Where the two lists disagree

25 of ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)'s top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) 2025Across all recordsdua: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. duanot rankedajla: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. ajlanot rankedtroi: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. troinot rankedhana: 4 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country4. hananot rankedmal: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. malnot rankedmalik: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. maliknot rankednea: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. neanot rankedluna: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. lunanot rankedamar: 9 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country9. amarnot rankednil: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. nilnot rankedjon: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. jonnot rankedbora: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. boranot rankedmael: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. maelnot rankednoar: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. noarnot rankeddiell: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. diellnot rankedsiar: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. siarnot rankedinara: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. inaranot rankedrejan: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. rejannot rankedamra: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. amranot rankedakil: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. akilnot rankedomer: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. omernot rankedfron: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. fronnot rankedalp: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. alpnot rankeddaris: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. darisnot rankedkian: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. kiannot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), 2025 on the left; every record we hold for Kosovo on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Kosovo

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Kosovo holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

BajramBekimBurimAfrimAgimLiridonaAdemFatmirEgzonArbenFitoreLiridonPajtimSkenderValonBesnikIdrizIsmetRedžepJetonMuhametAgronFitimMuharemImerEndritDardanZoranDraganGanimeteDritonAjanIsufAlbinBlerimBleonaAzemBesimMiloradMehmetEnverShqipeClirimMeritaBashkimBrahimNaserNazmiIbrahimJakupEdonaEgzonaLirimVloraŠerifRexhepRamizOsmanLumnijeŠaip
Sized by how much of the difference between Kosovo's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Over time

BajramFatimeBekimRamadanArben18222001712
ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), 1808–2025 (183 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Prizrensurname●
Berišasurname●
Bajramgiven name●
Krasniqisurname●
Petričsurname●
The best-attested names in Kosovo, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

The Latin alphabet here is not the ASCII one. Stripping diacritics merges names that are not the same name and changes how they are pronounced, and a record that has been ASCII-folded has lost information no amount of guessing recovers.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2025headline (given)

    Agency of Statistics of Kosovo (ASK). Counts: residents. given. 8,241 forms. 1808–2025. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    ASK Kosovo 'Kërko Emrin' per-name oracle at ask.rks-gov.net/NameSearch, sourced from civil registration. HARVESTED 2026-07-30 — 13,710 distinct given names, up from 88. Endpoint (found in /js/nameSearch.js): GET /NameSearch/GetNamesCount/?Name=<n>, case-insensitive, returning national total plus male/female split, a 35-row municipality breakdown, and a per-BIRTH-YEAR series (citizensNamePerAge, 1940-). A name absent from the register answers total:0 with an empty municipality array, making this a true existence oracle. 27,110 candidates probed for 13,710 hits (50.6%), 0 failures, ~3h at 4 workers; scripts/fetch_xk_ask_namesearch.py then parse_xk_ask_namesearch.py -> 336,604 rows (15,404 national + 321,200 birth-year). The previous 88 names came from the sibling GetTop5NamesYear endpoint (top-5 x ~69 years), never from this per-name oracle, which is why this was mis-catalogued as list_coverage top_n. Seed was built by scripts/build_probe_seed.py from the mondodb backbone restricted to tokens ATTESTED in AL/XK — the raw lang='sq' pool is 66% noise (13,339 'sq' rows sit under cc=IN) and global-frequency ordering floats Indian names above Albanian ones. Both diacritic and ASCII-folded spellings are probed because they are DISTINCT register entries, not duplicates: gëzim returns 4,233 and Gezim 373. GIVEN NAMES ONLY — every surname returns 0 (Krasniqi, the commonest Kosovar surname, returns 0), so Kosovo SURNAMES REMAIN UNCOVERED — the only local route was a person roster, dropped 2026-07-31 because global-dictionary keeps official name parts from citable government publications and a leaked roster cannot be cited; roster-derived parts belong in mondodb. Municipality labels are not harvested: ASK renders them from an i18n key I-MUNICIPALITY-<id> with no translation endpoint exposed (4 candidate paths 404), so only opaque integer ids exist; the full breakdown is kept verbatim in official/raw/XK/ask_namesearch.jsonl.gz for later labelling without re-querying.

    Last verified 2026-07-30.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Kosovo?
Dua, according to ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) (2025), with 286 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Kosovo?
Because they count different people. ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) (2025) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Dua. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Bajram. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Kosovo?
No — 2 are described on this page (Albanian, Serbo-Croatian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Kosovo”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/XK (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search).