Bukovec
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bukɑvɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bukovec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 17K
- UYUruguay1 in 199K
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
984 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bukovec 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 | #165 | 984 | 1 in 2.1K | 984 | Bukovec | 30 |
| HR Croatia | — | 252 | 1 in 17K | 252 | Bukovec | 28 |
| US United States | — | 118 | 1 in 2.8M | 128 | Bukovec | 16 |
| FR France | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | 1 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 983K | — | Bukovec | 4 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 29 | 1 in 369K | 29 | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | — | 17 | 1 in 199K | 17 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 649K | — | Bukovec | 3 |
984 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Vilma Bukovecb. 1920SISlovenian opera singer
- Anton Žerdín Bukovecb. 1950SISlovene Roman Catholic bishop
- Brigita Bukovecb. 1970SIathletics competitor
- Vesna Bukovecb. 1977SISlovenian visual artist
- Polona Bukovecb. 1982SIresearcher
- Stephanie Bukovecb. 1995HRassociation football player
- Benjamin BukovecSIresearcher
- Boris BukovecSISlovenian researcher
- Adrijana BukovecSIresearcher
- Irma BukovecSIresearcher
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 984 | #169 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 252 | #3,276 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 230 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 128 | #136,082 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 118 | #141,140 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 117 | #133,114 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 29 | #42,727 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 17 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bukovec?
- A machine transcription gives /bukɑvɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bukovec have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 984 people named Bukovec, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bukovec.
- Where is Bukovec most common?
- Bukovec is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bukovec?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 984 people named Bukovec, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bukovec compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Bukovec is the 165th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bukovec?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bukovecThe 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, “Bukovec” — the 165th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.