Jovanovich
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒoʊˈvænəvɪtʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jovanovich is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Jovanovic.
- ARArgentina1 in 109K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 1.2Kas Jovanović
- SISlovenia1 in 1.3Kas Jovanović
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jovanovich 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
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 109K (inferred from the name graph)
3,588 named Jovanović, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yovanovich in US United States and Йованович in RS Serbia.
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)
Variant spelling of Jovanovic.
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jovanovich 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 | — | 3,588as Jovanović | 1 in 1.2K | 3.6K | Jovanovich | 2 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,700as Jovanovic | 1 in 3.1K | 2.7K | — | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,603as Jovanović | 1 in 1.3K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 1,521as Jovanovic | 1 in 219K | 1.8K | Yovanovich | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 1,285as Jovanovic | 1 in 7.9K | 1.3K | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 504as Jovanovic | 1 in 11K | 504 | — | 1 |
| AR Argentina | — | 417 | 1 in 109K | 417 | — | 1 |
| RS Serbia | #455 | — | — | — | Йованович | 16 |
3,588 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021, counting the spelling jovanović. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
- Drago Jovanovichb. 1916USHelicopter designer (1916-1983)
- William Jovanovichb. 1920USAmerican publisher and writer
- Brandon Jovanovichb. 1970USAmerican opera singer
- Nenad M. Jovanovichdeacon of the Serbian Orthodox Church
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 565 | #39,004 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 549 | #42,533 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 536 | #38,771 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 417 | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 3 | #154,370 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Jovanovich mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of Jovanovic. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Jovanovich?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒoʊˈvænəvɪtʃ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Jovanovich have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Jovanović, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jovanovich most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jovanovich is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 109 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jovanovich?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 417 people named Jovanovich, about 1 in 109 thousand residents.
- How common is Jovanovich compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Jovanovich is the 455th 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/jovanovichThe 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, “Jovanovich” — the 455th most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.