Chovan
surname · Latin script
Meaning: synonym of chovanec
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈtʃoʊvən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chovan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 665K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 36K
- CZCzechia1 in 76K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈14,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
synonym of chovanec
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chovan 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.
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 2000; 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Chovan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Galician, third-person plural present subjunctive of chover
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In yly, horse
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)
- Miroslav Chovanb. 1941SKSlovak athlete
- Martin Chovanb. 1946SKSlovak mineralogist, department of mineralogy and petrology, Comenius University, Bratislava
- Jan Chovanb. 1983SKSlovak ice hockey player
- Martin Chovanb. 1986SKSlovak ice hockey player
- Michal Chovanb. 1987SKSlovak ice hockey player
- Sshakshi Chovanb. 1989INIndian actress
- Jakub Chovanb. 1989SKphotographer
- Matúš Chovanb. 1992SKSlovak ice hockey player
- Adrián Chovanb. 1995SKSlovak footballer
- Milan Chovanb. 1998Slovak chess player
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 13 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 535 | #38,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 500 | #43,206 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 468 | #48,712 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 141 | #12,120 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 141 | #6,604 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Chovan mean, and where does it come from?
- synonym of chovanec Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Chovan?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈtʃoʊvən/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Chovan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 14 thousand people named Chovan in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled chovan.
- How common is the name Chovan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 500 people named Chovan in 2010, about 1 in 665 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chovanThe 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, “Chovan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.