Kelmendi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a habitational surname
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kl̩məndɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kelmendi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country, where it is the 27th most common surname.
- DEGermany≈1 in 83K(inferred from the name graph)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 490
- CHSwitzerland1 in 11K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 490 (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a habitational surname
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kelmendi 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 | #27 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 490 | — | Kelmendi | 16 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 83K | — | Kelmendi | 73 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 773 | 1 in 11K | 773 | Kelmendi | 18 |
| SE Sweden | — | 513 | 1 in 20K | 513 | Kelmendi | 12 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 202K | — | Kelmendi | 4 |
| AL Albania | #242 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Kelmendi | 42 |
| NO Norway | — | 212 | 1 in 26K | 212 | Kelmendi | 10 |
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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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)
- Ali Kelmendib. 1900ALAlbanian communist leader (1900-1939)
- Ramiz Kelmendib. 1930XKauthor
- Xhevat Kelmendib. 1955XKAlbanian singer
- Gjevat Kelmendib. 1971GBBritish actor
- Jeton Kelmendib. 1978XKKosovar writer
- Fjolla Kelmendib. 1990XKKosovar judoka
- Majlinda Kelmendib. 1991XKKosovo-Albanian judoka
- Albina Kelmendib. 1998XKKosovo-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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 773 | #1,589 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 513 | #1,840 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 212 | #7,447 |
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 Kelmendi mean, and where does it come from?
- a habitational surname Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Kelmendi?
- A machine transcription gives /kl̩məndɪ/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Kelmendi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Kelmendi in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kelmendi.
- How common is the name Kelmendi?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 773 people named Kelmendi in 2024, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Kelmendi compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Kelmendi is the 27th 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/kelmendiThe 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, “Kelmendi” — the 27th most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.