Names of Slovakia SK

JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) records Kováčová as the commonest surname in Slovakia; the names that most distinguish Slovakia from the rest of the world are Peter, Juraj and Miroslav.

Written in Slovak.

Population
5.4M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
45K
BBuilt from 2 official registers (1995), 44,930 name forms in our corpus, 8 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Slovakia are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Slovakia included.

How names work in Slovakia

Names in Slovakia follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Slovakia

Where the two lists disagree

25 of JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)'s top 25 surnames sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) 1995Across all recordskováčová: 1 → 21 · ranks lower across all records1. kováčová21horváthová: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. horváthovánot rankedhorváth: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. horváthnot rankedbalážová: 4 → 88 · ranks lower across all records4. balážová88baláž: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. balážnot rankedmolnárová: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. molnárovánot rankedszabó: 7 → 16 · ranks lower across all records7. szabó16molnár: 8 → 30 · ranks lower across all records8. molnár30nováková: 9 → 105 · ranks lower across all records9. nováková105poláková: 10 → 103 · ranks lower across all records10. poláková103kovácsová: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. kovácsovánot rankednovák: 12 → 37 · ranks lower across all records12. novák37kovács: 13 → 24 · ranks lower across all records13. kovács24kollárová: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. kollárovánot rankedpolák: 15 → 52 · ranks lower across all records15. polák52gajdošová: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. gajdošovánot rankedszabóová: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. szabóovánot rankedkollár: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. kollárnot rankedgajdoš: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. gajdošnot rankedhudák: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. hudáknot rankedšimková: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. šimkovánot rankedhudáková: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. hudákovánot rankedkováčiková: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. kováčikovánot rankedkováčik: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. kováčiknot rankedoravcová: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. oravcovánot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census), 1995 on the left; every record we hold for Slovakia on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Slovakia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Slovakia holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

PeterJurajMiroslavZuzanaIngLadislavPavolFrantišekMarekMatejJozefJaroslavJakubMatúšSamuelTomášTiborEvaBranislavKarolViliamLuciaDušanBorisRastislavĽudovítOndrejRadoslavMárioStanislavGabrielĽubicaAndreaJúliusJarmilaJamesRudolfMilošBarboraRadovanZdenkoJanaVojtechSlavomírVladimírAlžbetaKatarínaImrichMartinaMgrĽubomírPatrikAttilaNorbertMiloslavAdriánKristiánZsoltIgorAdam
Sized by how much of the difference between Slovakia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Petergiven name(measured from records)
Jozefgiven name(measured from records)
Miroslavgiven name(measured from records)
Jurajgiven name(measured from records)
Jaroslavgiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Slovakia, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common surname in Slovakia?
Kováčová, according to JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) (1995), with 15,828 bearers recorded.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Slovakia”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/SK (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census).