Kovách
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kovách is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Slovak Kováč, Slovene Kovač, Serbo-Croatian Kòvač, Hungarian Kovács, or Polish Kowacz, all from a word of Slavic origin meaning "blacksmith", from Proto-Slavic *kovati (“to forge”).
- USUnited States1 in 37K(measured from records)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 64K
- SASaudi Arabia≈1 in 15K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 359 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
9,040 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Saudi Arabia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Kovach in US United States, GB United Kingdom, IT Italy and 4 more.
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)
- SlovakKováč(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*kovati“to forge”(measured from records)
From Slovak Kováč, Slovene Kovač, Serbo-Croatian Kòvač, Hungarian Kovács, or Polish Kowacz, all from a word of Slavic origin meaning "blacksmith", from Proto-Slavic *kovati (“to forge”).
Sources 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kovách 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 9,040 | 1 in 37K | 9.1K | Kovach | 359 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Kovach | 19 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Kovach | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Kovach | 59 |
| IT Italy | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Kovach | 9 |
| HU Hungary | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Kovach | 33 |
| IE Ireland | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Kovach | 5 |
9,040 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 2000. 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)
- Pál Kováchb. 1810HU(1810–1888)
- Marcus Anton Kováchb. 1815HU(1815-1855)
- László Kováchb. 1816HU(1816–1894)
- Albert Ajtai K.b. 1838HUnot in their usual nameHungarian publisher (1838–1919)
- Aladár Kováchb. 1908HU(1908–1979)
- Gyula Kováchb. 1908HUHungarian lawyer, politician
- Arisztid Kováchb. 1920HUHungarian physician (1920-1996)
- Géza Kováchb. 1925RORomanian historian
- Zoltán Kováchb. 1930HUHungarian canon, librarian (1930-1981)
- Imre Kováchb. 1953HUHungarian sociologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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 Kovách mean, and where does it come from?
- From Slovak Kováč, Slovene Kovač, Serbo-Croatian Kòvač, Hungarian Kovács, or Polish Kowacz, all from a word of Slavic origin meaning "blacksmith", from Proto-Slavic *kovati (“to forge”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- In which country does Kovách have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 9.0 thousand people named Kovách, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kovach.
- How common is the name Kovách?
- In the United States, the national register counted 9,040 people named Kovách in 2010, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kov%C3%A1chThe 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, “Kovách”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.