Kovalova
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/koʊvɑɫoʊvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kovalova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 95th most common surname.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.7Kas Ковальова(inferred from the name graph)
- CZCzechia1 in 19K
- PLPoland1 in 22K
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 Kovalova 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 72 (measured from records)
- 1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
≈26,000 named Ковальова, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ковальова in UA Ukraine, Kovalová in CZ Czechia and Ковалова in FI Finland.
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 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kovalova 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.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Anna Olegovna Kovalovab. 1985UAscreenwriter
- Terezie Kovalováb. 1989CZCzech cellist and singer
- Polina Kowalowab. 1993RUnot in their usual nameRussian cross-country skier
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 16 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.8K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.8K | #1,593 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 145 | #21,106 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 145 | #21,001 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 87 | #14,194 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #123,930 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 5 | #20,664 |
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 Kovalova?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊvɑɫoʊvə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kovalova have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 26 thousand people named Ковальова in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kovalova most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kovalova is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 19 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kovalova?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,757 people named Kovalova in 2026, about 1 in 22 thousand residents.
- How common is Kovalova compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Kovalova is the 95th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kovalova?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kovalovaThe 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, “Kovalova” — the 95th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.