Given name
Dritan
“light”
Dritan is a masculine given name from Albanian. It is used in English and Albanian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dritan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1983
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1983. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 356 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dritan’s family of names
Dritan has a diminutive in Tony. Dritan has a related form in DRITON. Dritan has a related form in DRITON.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dritan
- Dritan Abazovićprime-minister of Republic of Montenegro 2022–2023born 1985
- Tani StafsulaAlbanian-Finnish footballerborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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