Lovas

surname · Latin script

Meaning: occupational name from lovas ‘rider’ (a derivative of 16 ‘horse’); this may have denoted a messenger or a mounted soldier

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

/ˈɫoʊvəz/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Lovas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 382K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 60K
  • CZCzechia1 in 93K

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.

United States (measured from records)

870 people, 2010

Sources
207 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

occupational name from lovas ‘rider’ (a derivative of 16 ‘horse’); this may have denoted a messenger or a mounted soldier.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lovas 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 Lovas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States8701 in 382K874Lovas207
CA Canada≈240 est.≈1 in 154K—Lovas47
GB United Kingdom≈130 est.≈1 in 509K—Lovas41
IT Italy≈130 est.≈1 in 500K—Lovas3
DE Germany≈120 est.≈1 in 646K—Lovas44
CZ Czechia1151 in 93K115——
RO Romania≈110 est.≈1 in 191K—Lovas10
HR Croatia701 in 60K70——
NO Norway421 in 130K42Lovas13

870 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

Lovas is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, United Kingdom, Romania

    Also written Lovás, Lóvas

  • Ukrainian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Slovak

    Also written Ловас, Lovaš, Lovás, Lovasz, Lovász

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Romania, Colombia, Canada

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Lóvas, Lovaš, Lovás

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Lovaš, Ловаш, Lovás

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Lovás, Lovaš

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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lovas is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Hungarian, horse (attributive), equestrian (pulled by a horse)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • — žr. Venclovas

    as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

  • In French, second-person singular past historic of lover

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Lithuanian, accusative plural of lova

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Antal Lovas, b. 1884Miklós Lovas, b. 1931István Lovas, b. 1931Zoltán Lovas, b. 1954Ildikó Lovas, b. 1967Phil Lovas, b. 1968Balázs Lovas, b. 1977Petra Lovas, b. 1980Rozi Lovas, b. 1986Emília Lovas, b. 1992

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)

FormalDear Lovas,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 23 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Lovas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020874#28,926
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010870#27,646
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000852#26,829
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—115#14,674
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—115#7,244
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202170#10,422
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202163—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—42#29,421
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 5

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 Lovas mean, and where does it come from?
occupational name from lovas ‘rider’ (a derivative of 16 ‘horse’); this may have denoted a messenger or a mounted soldier. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Lovas?
A machine transcription gives /ˈɫoʊvəz/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Lovas have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 870 people named Lovas, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled lovas.
Where is Lovas most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lovas is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 60 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Lovas?
In the United States, the national register counted 870 people named Lovas in 2010, about 1 in 382 thousand residents.

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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, “Lovas”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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