Kovaç
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kovaç is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. In Slovakia it is the 18th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Slovak Kováč, Slovene Kovač, or Serbo-Croatian Kòvač, all meaning "blacksmith".
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 2.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 3.3K
- USUnited States1 in 119K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 316 (measured from records)
- 1 in 467 (inferred from the name graph)
8,542 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kovac in US United States, SI Slovenia, CZ Czechia and 1 more and Kováč in SK Slovakia.
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)
From Slovak Kováč, Slovene Kovač, or Serbo-Croatian Kòvač, all meaning "blacksmith".
Sources 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Dizionario dei cognomi italiani
- Wiktionary
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kovaç 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | — | 8,542 | 1 in 495 | 8.5K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | #215 | 4,503 | 1 in 467 | 4.5K | Kovac | 21 |
| CZ Czechia | #229 | 3,285 | 1 in 3.3K | 3.3K | Kovac | 64 |
| US United States | — | 2,795 | 1 in 119K | 2.8K | Kovac | 316 |
| SK Slovakia | #18 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Kováč | 99 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Kovac | 9 |
8,542 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Kovaç mean, and where does it come from?
- From Slovak Kováč, Slovene Kovač, or Serbo-Croatian Kòvač, all meaning "blacksmith". Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Dizionario dei cognomi italiani and 1 other source.
- In which country does Kovaç have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 8.5 thousand people named Kovaç, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kovaç most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kovaç is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 467 people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kovaç?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 8,542 people named Kovaç in 2021, about 1 in 495 residents.
- How common is Kovaç compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Kovaç is the 18th most common surname of 69,668 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kova%C3%A7The 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, “Kovaç” — the 18th most common surname in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.