Pavlović

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/pa˨˦ʋloʋitɕ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Pavlović is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Pavlović.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 290(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 492
  • ATAustria≈1 in 5.2K

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.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈24,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
215 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 290 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PavlovićLatin(measured from records)
ПавловичCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pavlovic in DE Germany, AT Austria and Pavlovič in SI Slovenia.

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)

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Pavlović.

Sources 1

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pavlović 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 Pavlović is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#7≈24,000 est.≈1 in 290listedPavlović98
HR Croatia#138,6011 in 4928.6KPavlović80
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#31≈2,900 est.≈1 in 1.3K—Pavlović23
DE Germany—≈1,800 est.≈1 in 43K—Pavlovic112
AT Austria#304≈1,700 est.≈1 in 5.2K—Pavlovic73
SK Slovakia—1,2371 in 4.4K1.2K—2
SI Slovenia#1521,1271 in 1.9K1.1KPavlovič19

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); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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(inferred from the name graph)

Pavlović is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Pavlovíc, Pavlovič, Pavlovic̆, Pavlovic, Pavloviç

  • Russian surname42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Павлович, Pavlovych, Pavlovich, Pavlovic, Pavlovič

  • Italian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Serbia, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Pavlovic, Pavloviç, Pavlovič

33 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(measured from records)

1900195020002050Milena Pavlović-Barili, b. 1909Ladislav Pavlovič, b. 1926Živojin Pavlović, b. 1933Milena Pavlović, b. 1972Zoran Pavlović, b. 1976Viktoria Pavlovich, b. 1978Veronika Pavlovich, b. 1978Aleksandar Pavlović, b. 1983Mateo Pavlović, b. 1990Aleksandar Pavlović, b. 2004

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(machine-generated)

FormalPoštovani Pavlović,Dear Pavlović, (English)
InformalPoštovani Pavlović,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Pavlović
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20218.6K#14
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)20217.7K—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.1K#143

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

What does the name Pavlović mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Pavlović. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Pavlović?
A machine transcription gives /pa˨˦ʋloʋitɕ/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Pavlović have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Pavlović in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pavlović.
How common is the name Pavlović?
In Croatia, the national register counted 8,601 people named Pavlović in 2021, about 1 in 492 residents.
How common is Pavlović compared with other names?
In Serbia, Pavlović is the 7th most common surname of 45,065 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Pavlović” — the 7th most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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