Charvát

Name: Charvát: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
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Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: a male surname originating as an ethnonym (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: JÚĽŠ SAV, 1995

/ˈxarvaːt/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary

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Charvát is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 2,933 people, counted by MVČR.

CZCzechia1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
SKSlovakia1 in 45K
USUnited States1 in 438K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Czechia (measured from records)
Record sources: 90 (measured from records)
: 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Charvat

Locally spelled Charvat in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 1 more.

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.

How to pronounce Charvát

Czech:/ˈxarvaːt/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Slovak:/ˈxarvaːt/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary

Meaning & origin

a male surname originating as an ethnonym

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Charvát is found

Charvát 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.

Where Charvát is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
CZ Czechia	#360	2,933	1 in 3.6K	2.9K	Charvát	68
US United States	—	760	1 in 438K	778	Charvat	90
FR France	—	≈130 est.	≈1 in 530K	8	Charvat	76
SK Slovakia	—	121	1 in 45K	121	Charvát	14
GB United Kingdom	—	≈110 est.	≈1 in 618K	—	Charvat	10
CA Canada	—	≈76 est.	≈1 in 540K	—	Charvat	5

2,933 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).

Other names spelled this way

Charvát is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name4 spellings in the group
Also written Charvàt, Charvat, Charvãt
English surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Languages: English, German, Dutch
Also written Charvat
Spanish surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Colombia, Argentina
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Charvat
Polish surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Poland
Also written Charvat
Hindi surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, India
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Also written Charvat
Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Charvat
Turkish surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Türkiye
Also written Charvat
Arabic surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, United States
Also written Charvat

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

Jožka Charvátb. 1884CZCzech conductor (1884-1945)
Antonín Charvátb. 1899CZCzech cyclist
Petr Charvátb. 1949CZCzech historian (1949–2023)

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

FormalVážený pane / paní Charvát,Dear Charvát, (English)

InformalVážený pane / paní Charvát,Hello, (English)

Evidence

10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Charvát mean, and where does it come from?: a male surname originating as an ethnonym Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Charvát?: It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈxarvaːt/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈxarvaːt/ (Wiktionary).
Which countries have the most people with the surname Charvát?: In Czechia, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named Charvát, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled charvát. After it come United States, France, Slovakia and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Charvát most common?: Charvát is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.6 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Charvát?: In Czechia, the national register counted 2,933 people named Charvát, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
How common is Charvát compared with other names?: In Czechia, Charvát is the 360th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.

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The 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 2026-10-13 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, “Charvát” — ranked 354th in Czechia (naše jména). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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