Horvat
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ethnic name for a Croat (see Horvath)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/xorʋat̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Horvat is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the most common surname.
- HRCroatia1 in 196(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 233
- RSSerbia≈1 in 2.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Horvat itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 196 (inferred from the name graph)
21,618 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
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(measured from records)
ethnic name for a Croat (see Horvath). In particular, this term was used to denote Croatian refugees from the Ottoman Empire who settled in the eastern and northern parts of Croatia. When Hungarian officials could not spell the Slavic name of such refugees, they would simply write them down as Horvat(h) ‘Croatian’. Horvat is now the most frequent surname in Croatia.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Horvat 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 | #1 | 21,618 | 1 in 196 | 22K | Horvat | 119 |
| US United States | — | 15,302as Horvath | 1 in 22K | 16K | Horvat | 156 |
| SK Slovakia | #148 | 15,092as Horváth | 1 in 360 | 15K | Horvat | 46 |
| SI Slovenia | #5 | 9,037 | 1 in 233 | 9K | Horvat | 68 |
| FR France | — | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 98 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | #672 | 4,549as Horváth | 1 in 2.4K | 4.5K | Horvat | 46 |
| RS Serbia | #180 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | listed | Horvat | 51 |
21,618 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Horvat 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.
nickname for someone from Croatia, in particular a refugee from the Ottoman Empire in the 15th and 16th centuries, from an old spelling of Hrvat, ethnic name for a Croat. T^e surname Horvat, together with its variant Hrovat, is the second most frequent surname in Slovenia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Serbo-Croatian, a surname originating as an ethnonym
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
ethnic name for a Croat (see Horvath).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Slovak, a male surname originating as an ethnonym
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)
- Joža Horvatb. 1915HRCroatian writer (1915–2012)
- Milan Horvatb. 1919ATCroatian conductor and jurist (1919–2014)
- Ivan Horvatb. 1926HRCroatian footballer (1926-2012)
- Frank Horvatb. 1928FRItalian photographer (1928-2020)
- Elena Horvatb. 1958RORomanian rower (born 1958)
- Steve Horvatb. 1971AUAustralian soccer player
- Srećko Horvatb. 1983HRCroatian philosopher
- Zlatko Horvatb. 1984HRCroatian handball player
- Bo Horvatb. 1995CACanadian ice hockey player
- Tomi Horvatb. 1999SISlovenian association football 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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 22K | #1 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 20K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 9K | #2 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.7K | #16,975 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.7K | #16,035 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,037 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 107 | #7,488 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 106 | #15,811 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 91 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 83 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 79 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 67 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Horvat come from?
- ethnic name for a Croat (see Horvath). In particular, this term was used to denote Croatian refugees from the Ottoman Empire who settled in the eastern and northern parts of Croatia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Horvat?
- A machine transcription gives /xorʋat̪/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- What does the name Horvat mean?
- Recorded meaning: ethnic name for a Croat (see Horvath).
- In which country does Horvat have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 22 thousand people named Horvat, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled horvat.
- Where is Horvat most common?
- Horvat is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 196 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Horvat?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 21,618 people named Horvat in 2021, about 1 in 196 residents.
- How common is Horvat compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Horvat is the most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/horvatThe 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, “Horvat” — the most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.