Vávra

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Vávra is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a diminutive of the male given name Vavřinec.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.9K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 11K
  • HRCroatia1 in 32K

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.

Czechia (measured from records)

5,622 people

Sources
72 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Vavra in US United States, HU Hungary, GB United Kingdom and 2 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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

a diminutive of the male given name Vavřinec

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Vávra 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 Vávra is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#1375,6221 in 1.9K5.6KVávra72
US United States—1,8131 in 183K1.9KVavra56
SK Slovakia—4781 in 11K478Vávra18
AO Angola—≈270 est.≈1 in 120K—Vavra1
GB United Kingdom—≈220 est.≈1 in 300K15Vavra9
HU Hungary—≈190 est.≈1 in 53K—Vavra9
HR Croatia—1331 in 32K133——
IE Ireland—≈65 est.≈1 in 80K—Vavra1

5,622 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; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). 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)

Vávra is also recorded as 6 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 Vāvra, Vavra, Va'Vra

  • English surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Vavra, Va’vra, Va'Vra

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States

    Also written Vavra, Vävra

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Vavra

  • Polish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Vavra, Vāvra

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Вавра, Vavra

10 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)

18001850190019502000Jindřich Blažej Vávra, b. 1831Emanuel Vávra, b. 1839Antonín Vávra, b. 1847Jaroslav Raimund Vávra, b. 1902Otakar Vávra, b. 1911Bohumil Vávra, b. 1916Zdeněk Vávra, b. 1927Vítězslav Vávra, b. 1953David Vávra, b. 1957Daniel Vávra, b. 1975

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 10 sources across 4 countries.

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)

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 Vávra mean, and where does it come from?
a diminutive of the male given name Vavřinec Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Vávra have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 5.6 thousand people named Vávra, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vávra.
Where is Vávra most common?
Vávra is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.9 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Vávra?
In Czechia, the national register counted 5,622 people named Vávra, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
How common is Vávra compared with other names?
In Czechia, Vávra is the 137th most common surname of 114,573 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, “Vávra” — the 137th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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