List of country-name etymologies

Quality:

List of country-name etymologies - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of country-name etymologies” in English Wikipedia has 90.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 396 references and 237 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “List of country-name etymologies” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 3 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of country-name etymologies”, its content was written by 985 registered users of English Wikipedia (6716^th place) and edited by 1792 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 128 times in English Wikipedia and cited 609 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #32 in April 2003
• Global: #216 in April 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #6229 in October 2009
• Global: #13480 in October 2009

There are 13 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) List of country-name etymologies		90.5115
2	Arabic (ar) قائمة أصول تسميات الدول		80.6638
3	Ukrainian (uk) Етимологія назв країн		63.7125
4	French (fr) Étymologies des noms de pays		50.7452
5	German (de) Etymologische Liste der Ländernamen		40.5033
6	Italian (it) Etimologie dei nomi degli Stati		40.4262
7	Finnish (fi) Luettelo valtionimien alkuperistä		39.8963
8	Persian (fa) فهرست ریشه‌شناسی نام کشورها		38.8264
9	Portuguese (pt) Etimologia dos nomes dos países		37.2623
10	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách quốc gia theo ý nghĩa tên gọi		29.4524

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of country-name etymologies		3 734 378
2	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách quốc gia theo ý nghĩa tên gọi		1 006 190
3	Portuguese (pt) Etimologia dos nomes dos países		697 035
4	Persian (fa) فهرست ریشه‌شناسی نام کشورها		675 365
5	German (de) Etymologische Liste der Ländernamen		551 681
6	Italian (it) Etimologie dei nomi degli Stati		295 408
7	French (fr) Étymologies des noms de pays		241 663
8	Ukrainian (uk) Етимологія назв країн		146 063
9	Azerbaijani (az) Ölkə adlarının etimologiyalarının siyahısı		61 401
10	Arabic (ar) قائمة أصول تسميات الدول		14 750

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of country-name etymologies		5 765
2	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách quốc gia theo ý nghĩa tên gọi		1 920
3	German (de) Etymologische Liste der Ländernamen		1 061
4	Italian (it) Etimologie dei nomi degli Stati		500
5	Persian (fa) فهرست ریشه‌شناسی نام کشورها		422
6	French (fr) Étymologies des noms de pays		398
7	Arabic (ar) قائمة أصول تسميات الدول		335
8	Portuguese (pt) Etimologia dos nomes dos países		288
9	Ukrainian (uk) Етимологія назв країн		235
10	Azerbaijani (az) Ölkə adlarının etimologiyalarının siyahısı		59

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of country-name etymologies		985
2	German (de) Etymologische Liste der Ländernamen		300
3	Italian (it) Etimologie dei nomi degli Stati		97
4	Portuguese (pt) Etimologia dos nomes dos países		94
5	French (fr) Étymologies des noms de pays		89
6	Persian (fa) فهرست ریشه‌شناسی نام کشورها		71
7	Ukrainian (uk) Етимологія назв країн		57
8	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách quốc gia theo ý nghĩa tên gọi		54
9	Esperanto (eo) Nomoj de Eŭropaj Landoj		22
10	Azerbaijani (az) Ölkə adlarının etimologiyalarının siyahısı		13

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of country-name etymologies		2
2	Vietnamese (vi) Danh sách quốc gia theo ý nghĩa tên gọi		1
3	Arabic (ar) قائمة أصول تسميات الدول		0
4	Azerbaijani (az) Ölkə adlarının etimologiyalarının siyahısı		0
5	German (de) Etymologische Liste der Ländernamen		0
6	Esperanto (eo) Nomoj de Eŭropaj Landoj		0
7	Persian (fa) فهرست ریشه‌شناسی نام کشورها		0
8	Finnish (fi) Luettelo valtionimien alkuperistä		0
9	French (fr) Étymologies des noms de pays		0
10	Italian (it) Etimologie dei nomi degli Stati		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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