Kovač

surname · Latin script

Meaning: smith

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

/ko˨˦ʋaːtʂ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kovač is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. In Slovenia it is the 10th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 495(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 2.2K
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 4.2Kas Ковач

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 Kovač 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.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 named Ковач, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
126 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 467 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KovačLatin(measured from records)
КовачCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ковач in UA Ukraine, Kovac in US United States and Kovach in CZ Czechia.

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)

smith

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kovač 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 Kovač is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#354≈11,000 est.≈1 in 4.2K—Ковач41
US United States—9,040as Kovach1 in 37K9.1KKovac102
HR Croatia#128,5421 in 4958.5KKovač82
SI Slovenia#104,5031 in 4674.5KKovač41
CZ Czechia—3,2851 in 3.3K3.3KKovach19
RS Serbia#123≈3,200 est.≈1 in 2.2KlistedKovač32
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#62≈1,200 est.≈1 in 3.3K—Kovač18

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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)

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

  • English surname63 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Slovakia

    Languages: English, German, Slovak

    Also written Kovac, Kováč, Kovác, Kovaç, Kovać

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Kovaĉ, Kovác̆, Kovac̀, Kovaç, Kovác

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Serbia, United Kingdom

    Also written Kovac, Kováč

29 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)

19201940196019802000Michal Kováč, b. 1930Mirko Kovač, b. 1938Kornelije Kovač, b. 1942Daniel Kovac, b. 1956Niko Kovač, b. 1971Robert Kovač, b. 1974Tinkara Kovač, b. 1978Radoslav Kováč, b. 1979Joe Kovacs, b. 1989Stefan Kovač, b. 1999

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 Kovač,Dear Kovač, (English)
InformalPoštovani Kovač,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Kovač
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20218.5K#15
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)20217.5K—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—4.5K#6
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—326#5,038
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—324#4,208

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 Kovač mean, and where does it come from?
smith Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Kovač?
A machine transcription gives /ko˨˦ʋaːtʂ/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Kovač have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Ковач in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kovač most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kovač is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 467 people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kovač?
In Croatia, the national register counted 8,542 people named Kovač in 2021, about 1 in 495 residents.
How common is Kovač compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Kovač is the 354th most common surname of 1,177,784 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, “Kovač” — the 354th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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