Ovčina
surname · Latin script
Ovčina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- MRMauritania≈1 in 66K
- DKDenmark1 in 92K
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.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈620 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ovcina in US United States, SE Sweden, MR Mauritania.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ovčina 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Ovčina | 8 |
| SE Sweden | 95 | 1 in 107K | 95 | Ovcina | 9 |
| US United States | ≈68 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | listed | Ovcina | 62 |
| DK Denmark | 64 | 1 in 92K | 64 | — | — |
| MR Mauritania | ≈61 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Ovcina | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 33 | 1 in 128K | 33 | Ovčina | 10 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Ovčina is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, Neuzticams cilvēks tiesāto vidū
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Amela Ljevo-Ovčinab. 1968BALinguist from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Elvir Ovčinab. 1976BABosnian basketball player
- Slavko Ovčinab. 1978SISlovene basketball player (1978-)
- Alen Ovčinab. 1989BABosnian handball player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 33 | #17,507 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 28 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- In which country does Ovčina have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 624 people named Ovčina in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ovčina.
- How common is the name Ovčina?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 95 people named Ovčina, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Ovčina?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ov%C4%8DinaThe 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, “Ovčina”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.