Pavlovic
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Pavlovic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 7th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Paulus; slowenische, serbische oder kroatische Form.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 290(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 492
- ATAustria≈1 in 5.2K
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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 290 (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pavlović in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina and Pavlovič 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)
Patronym zu Paulus; slowenische, serbische oder kroatische Form. 110 bzw. 597 Träger.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pavlovic 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #7 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 290 | listed | Pavlović | 98 |
| HR Croatia | #13 | 8,601 | 1 in 492 | 8.6K | Pavlović | 80 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #31 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Pavlović | 23 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Pavlovic | 112 |
| AT Austria | #304 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Pavlovic | 73 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 1,237 | 1 in 4.4K | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | #152 | 1,127 | 1 in 1.9K | 1.1K | Pavlovič | 19 |
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); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Radoslav Pavlovicb. 1954RSSerbian playwright and screenwriter
- Milan Pavlovičb. 1961SIresearcher
- Dejan Pavlovicb. 1971SESwedish footballer
- Jovan Pavlovicb. 1975NOYugoslavian-Norwegian musician
- Ivan Pavlovicb. 1997LULuxembourgian handball player
- Leon PavlovičSIresearcher
- Tadeja Štefančič PavlovičSIresearcher
- Mik PavlovičSISlovenian researcher
- Eva PavlovičSIresearcher
- Erik PavlovičSIresearcher
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 26 sources across 17 countries.
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 Pavlovic mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Paulus; slowenische, serbische oder kroatische Form.
- In which country does Pavlovic have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Pavlovic in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pavlović.
- How common is the name Pavlovic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 8,601 people named Pavlovic in 2021, about 1 in 492 residents.
- How common is Pavlovic compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Pavlovic is the 7th most common surname of 45,065 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pavlovicThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pavlovic” — the 7th most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.