Kováts

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/kovat͡ʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kováts is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Americanized spelling of Hungarian Kovacs (see Kovacs).

rarermore common
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 290K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 384K
  • SESweden1 in 785K

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)

314 people, 2010

Sources
7 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 290K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Kovats in US United States.

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)

Americanized spelling of Hungarian Kovacs (see Kovacs).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kováts 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.

Where Kováts is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3141 in 1.1M330Kovats5
CH Switzerland291 in 290K29——
ES Spain151 in 3.3M15——
SE Sweden131 in 785K13——
HR Croatia111 in 384K11——
DK Denmark41 in 1.5M4——

314 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kováts is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Kovats

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, Hungarian, German

    Also written Kovats, Kovatš, Kovàts

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ḳovats, Kovàts, Kovats

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Colombia, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Kovats, Kovàts

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Kovats

  • Croatian surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Kovats

  • Ukrainian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Kovats

11 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Michael Kovats, b. 1724Mátyás Kováts, b. 1790Edgar Kováts, b. 1849István Kováts, b. 1866Barna Kováts, b. 1920Nóra Kováts, b. 1931Kolos Kováts, b. 1948Katalin Kováts, b. 1957Adél Kováts, b. 1962Tibor Kováts, b. 1963

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)

FormalTisztelt Kováts!Dear Kováts, (English)
InformalTisztelt Kováts!Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 8 sources across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Kováts
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202420#36,564

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Kováts mean, and where does it come from?
Americanized spelling of Hungarian Kovacs (see Kovacs). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Kováts?
A machine transcription gives /kovat͡ʃ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
In which country does Kováts have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 314 people named Kováts, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kovats.
Where is Kováts most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kováts is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 290 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kováts?
In the United States, the national register counted 314 people named Kováts in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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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, “Kováts”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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