Given name · also Turkish
Skënder
Skënder is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Albanian.
Original Turkishİskender
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Skënder comes from Ottoman Turkish, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Skënder developed from Ἀλέξανδρος.
Skënder’s family of names
Skënder shares an earlier linguistic root with Aleksandër. Skënder was borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish form اسكندر. Skënder shares a linguistic root with the Turkish form İskender.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Skënder has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Skënder comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Skënder
- Skënder GjinushiAlbanian politicianborn 1949
- Skënder HykaAlbanian footballer (1944–2018)
- Skënder HyseniKosovar politicianborn 1955
- Skënder Gegafootballerborn 1963
- Skënder BruçajGrand Mufti of Albania (2014-2019)born 1976
- Skënder BegejaAlbanian footballer (1924-2010)
- Skënder LuarasiAlbanian scholar and activist1900–1982
- Skënder JareciLuftëtar i Lirisë (1931-1984)
- Skënder Haliliassociation football player (1940-1982)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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