Ahmetaj
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/ahhmˈɛta͡ɪ/(machine-generated) Albanian · model-generated
Ahmetaj is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common surname.
- XKKosovo≈1 in 690few records(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 1.1Kfew records
- SISlovenia1 in 9.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 108 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 691 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,300 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a surname originating as a patronymic
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world
(measured from records)Ahmetaj counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | #77 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 691 | — | Ahmetaj | 12 |
| AL Albania | #163 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Ahmetaj | 48 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 827 | 1 in 10K | 827 | Ahmetaj | 20 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Ahmetaj | 55 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Ahmetaj | 10 |
| SI Slovenia | #181 | 220 | 1 in 9.6K | 220 | Ahmetaj | 4 |
| NO Norway | — | 110 | 1 in 50K | 110 | Ahmetaj | 11 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Arben Ahmetajb. 1969ALAlbanian politician
- Natasha AhmetajALAlbanian civil servant and author
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)19 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 827 | #1,462 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 220 | #1,911 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 110 | #14,068 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Ahmetaj mean, and where does it come from?
- a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Ahmetaj?
- In Albanian /ahhmˈɛta͡ɪ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Ahmetaj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.3 thousand people named Ahmetaj in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ahmetaj.
- How common is the name Ahmetaj?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 827 people named Ahmetaj in 2024, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Ahmetaj compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Ahmetaj is the 77th most common surname of 4,329 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ahmetajThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Ahmetaj” — the 77th most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.