Kovacic
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from kovac ‘blacksmith’
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/kəˈvɑkɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kovacic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 5th most common surname.
- HRCroatia1 in 401(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 341K
- SISlovenia1 in 390
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 218 (measured from records)
- 1 in 390 (inferred from the name graph)
10,546 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kovačić in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kovačič in SI Slovenia.
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)
patronymic from kovac ‘blacksmith’.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kovacic 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 | #5 | 10,546 | 1 in 401 | 11K | Kovačić | 74 |
| SI Slovenia | #6 | 5,395 | 1 in 390 | 5.4K | Kovačič | 53 |
| US United States | — | 975 | 1 in 341K | 975 | Kovacic | 218 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 141K | — | Kovacic | 74 |
| RS Serbia | #468 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kovačić | 25 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #344 | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Kovačić | 9 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Kovacic | 45 |
10,546 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; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Kovacic is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Covacci
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
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)
- Ernst Kovacicb. 1943ATAustrian violinist and conductor
- Candace S. Kovacic-Fleischerb. 1945USAmerican legal scholar
- Emil Kovacicb. 1945ATAustrian architect
- Maria Kovacicb. 1970AUAustralian politician
- Antun Kovacicb. 1981AUAustralian soccer player
- Filip Kovacicb. 1982researcher
- Danijel Kovacicb. 1987DEGerman ice hockey goaltender
- Borut Kovačičb. 2000SIresearcher
- Clara KovacicARArgentinian dancer and actress
- Chuck KovacicAmerican actor
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 975 | #25,381 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 954 | #26,876 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 943 | #24,784 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 5 | #27,426 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- 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)
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 Kovacic mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from kovac ‘blacksmith’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kovacic?
- A machine transcription gives /kəˈvɑkɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kovacic have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Kovacic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kovačić.
- Where is Kovacic most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kovacic is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 390 people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kovacic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 10,546 people named Kovacic in 2021, about 1 in 401 residents.
- How common is Kovacic compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Kovacic is the 5th most common surname of 72,581 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/kovacicThe 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, “Kovacic” — the 5th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.