Ković
surname · Latin script
Ković is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 7.2K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 37K
- SESweden1 in 729K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ković itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
291 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kovic in US United States, CH Switzerland and Kovič 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ković 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #759 | 291 | 1 in 7.2K | 291 | Kovič | 16 |
| US United States | — | 151 | 1 in 2.2M | 151 | Kovic | 6 |
| HR Croatia | — | 114 | 1 in 37K | 114 | Ković | 22 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Ković | 13 |
| SE Sweden | — | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 6 | 1 in 1.4M | 6 | Kovic | 2 |
291 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marko Kovićb. 1985CHSwiss sociologist
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 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 114 | #7,090 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 95 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Ković have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 291 people named Ković, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kovič.
- Where is Ković most common?
- Ković is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ković?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 291 people named Ković, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Ković compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Ković is the 759th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ković?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kovi%C4%87The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Ković” — the 759th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.