Covin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Fraud, deception
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkoʊvɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Covin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 309K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
- PLPoland1 in 7.7M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 309K (inferred from the name graph)
1,077 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Fraud, deception.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Covin 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.
1,077 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Covin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, inflection of covar:
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)
- Jules Covinb. 1895FRFrench flying ace (1895-1918)
- Alec Covinb. 1970FRFrench writer
- Delphine Covinb. 1971FRFrench politician
- Kelly CovinUSAmerican author and scenarist
- Jeffrey G. CovinUSmanagement scientist
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.1K | #23,576 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1K | #25,283 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1K | #23,428 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #105,725 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #255,993 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #319,132 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Covin?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkoʊvɪn/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Covin mean, and where does it come from?
- Fraud, deception. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Covin have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Covin, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled covin.
- Where is Covin most common?
- Covin is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 309 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Covin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,077 people named Covin in 2010, about 1 in 309 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/covinThe 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, “Covin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.