Kovâcs
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Kovâcs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Hungarian Kovács, from kovács (“blacksmith”), from Proto-Slavic *kovačь.
- HUHungary≈1 in 300(inferred from the name graph)
- SKSlovakia1 in 1.1K
- RORomania≈1 in 2.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Hungary (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 288 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 301 (inferred from the name graph)
≈33,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Kovacs in HU Hungary, US United States, RO Romania and 1 more and Kovács in SK Slovakia, CH Switzerland.
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)- HungarianKovács(measured from records)
- Hungarian rootkovács“blacksmith”(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*kovačь(measured from records)
From Hungarian Kovács, from kovács (“blacksmith”), from Proto-Slavic *kovačь.
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kovâcs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #3 | ≈33,000 est. | ≈1 in 301 | 203K | Kovacs | 221 |
| US United States | — | 9,072 | 1 in 37K | 9.1K | Kovacs | 288 |
| RO Romania | #73 | ≈8,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Kovacs | 70 |
| SK Slovakia | #24 | 4,832 | 1 in 1.1K | 4.8K | Kovács | 64 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Kovacs | 93 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 545 | 1 in 15K | 545 | Kovács | 55 |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 birth surnames in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kovâcs mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hungarian Kovács, from kovács (“blacksmith”), from Proto-Slavic *kovačь. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Kovâcs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 33 thousand people named Kovâcs in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kovacs.
- How common is the name Kovâcs?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,072 people named Kovâcs in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Kovâcs compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Kovâcs is the 3rd most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Kovâcs” — the 3rd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.