Tavčar

surname · Latin script

/t̪aʋt͡ʃar/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Tavčar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 86K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 216K

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.

Slovenia (measured from records)

1,257 people

Sources
31 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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.

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Tavčar 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 Tavčar is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#1281,2571 in 1.7K1.3KTavčar31
HR Croatia—491 in 86K49Tavčar12
RS Serbia—≈32 est.≈1 in 216K—Tavčar10
AR Argentina—271 in 1.7M27——
ES Spain—61 in 8.3M6—3
CH Switzerland—31 in 2.8M3—1

1,257 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Tavčar is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Tavcar

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Tavçar, Tavcar, Tavćar, Tavc̆ar

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Slovenia, United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Tavcar

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Slovenia, Belgium

    Also written Tavcar

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy

    Also written Tavcar

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Тавчар, Tavcar

7 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)

1850190019502000Ivan Tavčar, b. 1851Franja Tavčar, b. 1868Stanko Tavčar, b. 1898Igor Tavčar, b. 1899Ciril Tavčar, b. 1904Franc Tavčar, b. 1920Zora Tavčar, b. 1928Lidija Tavčar, b. 1953Rajko Tavčar, b. 1974Anže Tavčar, b. 1994

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 Tavčar,Dear Tavčar, (English)
InformalPoštovani Tavčar,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Tavčar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.3K#106
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202149#13,467
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202137—

Reference works 2

  • 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

How do you pronounce Tavčar?
A machine transcription gives /t̪aʋt͡ʃar/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Tavčar have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Tavčar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tavčar.
Where is Tavčar most common?
Tavčar is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Tavčar?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,257 people named Tavčar, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
How common is Tavčar compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Tavčar is the 128th most common surname of 13,062 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 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, “Tavčar” — the 128th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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