Jovanov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jəvənɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jovanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country. In North Macedonia it is the 54th most common surname.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 10K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 31K
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 Jovanov 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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 33 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Јованов in MK North Macedonia.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jovanov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #298 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Jovanov | 31 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 273 | 1 in 31K | 273 | Jovanov | 6 |
| MK North Macedonia | #54 | 246as Јованов | 1 in 8.6K | 246 | Јованов | 30 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 202 | 1 in 10K | 202 | Jovanov | 7 |
| US United States | — | 124 | 1 in 2.7M | 137 | Jovanov | 33 |
| HR Croatia | — | 111 | 1 in 38K | 111 | Jovanov | 18 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); State Statistical Office — living population names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Jasna Jovanovb. 1952RSSerbian art historian
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 273 | #4,784 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 202 | #2,111 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 137 | #129,703 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 124 | #135,593 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 111 | #7,286 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 104 | #146,011 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 79 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Jovanov?
- A machine transcription gives /jəvənɑv/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jovanov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Jovanov in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jovanov.
- How common is the name Jovanov?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 273 people named Jovanov in 2024, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
- How common is Jovanov compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Jovanov is the 298th most common surname of 45,065 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jovanovThe 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, “Jovanov” — the 298th most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.