Kovačec
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Kovačec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 4.4K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 6.5K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.8M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.4K (inferred from the name graph)
652 people, 2021
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kovacec in SI Slovenia, US United States.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kovačec is found
(measured from records)Kovačec 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 652 | 1 in 6.5K | 652 | Kovačec | 32 |
| SI Slovenia | 480 | 1 in 4.4K | 480 | Kovacec | 12 |
| AR Argentina | 10 | 1 in 4.5M | 10 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 3 | 1 in 2.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 199M | listed | Kovacec | 4 |
652 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); 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)- Ivan Kovačecb. 1988HRCroatian footballer
- Sašo KovačecSIresearcher
- Jožica Wagner-KovačecSIresearcher (ORCID 0000-0002-3258-6654)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kovačec?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 652 people named Kovačec, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kovačec. After it come Slovenia, Argentina, Switzerland and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kovačec most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kovačec is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 4.4 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kovačec?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 652 people named Kovačec in 2021, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kovačec?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kova%C4%8DecThe 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, “Kovačec”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.