Petrovics
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pɛtrovitʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petrovics is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, szláv családnév.
- HUHungary≈1 in 8.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- LVLatvia≈1 in 57K
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 196K
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)
- Sources
- 82 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Hungary, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, szláv családnév. Eredete: Előzménye a ’kő, kőszikla’ jelentésű görög [petrosz] szó, amelyet talán Jézus Krisztus tett meg keresztnévvé az arámi eredetű Kéfás név által, amikor egyik tanítványának, Simonnak a nevét erre változtatta. A görög fordításban vált a Kéfásból [Petrosz], ami a latinban Petrus lett, s ez terjedt el az egész keresztény világban. A latin -us végződés elhagyása után a Petr- alak mind a délszláv, mind a szlovák nyelvben megkapta az - ovics apanévképzőt (a délszlávban ez -ovity is lehetett), s családnév lett belőle ’Petr- nevű személy fia, leszármazotta’ jelentéssel. Elterjedtsége: Az ország északi részén (Nógrád, Heves, Borsod megyében) és a Dunántúl délkeleti részén (Baranya és Tolna megyében) gyakoribb.
Sources 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petrovics 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 | #442 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Petrovics | 82 |
| US United States | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 4.4M | listed | Petrovics | 45 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 38 | Petrovics | 21 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Petrovics | 3 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 196K | — | Petrovics | 14 |
| SE Sweden | — | 20 | 1 in 510K | 20 | Petrovics | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 16 | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Péter Petrovicsb. 1486ROHungarian noble, large estate owner (1486-1557)
- Demeter Petrovicsb. 1799HU(1799–1854)
- Frigyes Keresztély Petrovicsb. 1799HUHungarian historian (1799–1836)
- Eduard Petrovicsb. 1833HUHungarian Catholic priest, writer (1833-1855)
- György Petrovicsb. 1878HUpolitician (1878-1950)
- Emil Petrovicsb. 1930HUHungarian composer of Serbian origin (1930-2011)
- Kálmán Petrovicsb. 1961HUHungarian canoeist
- Eszter Petrovicsb. 1972HU(1972-) television director
- Béla Petrovicsb. 2000HUHungarian canoeist
- László PetrovicsHUHungarian Righteous Among the Nations
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 14 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 38 | #60,264 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 20 | #25,589 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 16 | #28,628 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Petrovics?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛtrovitʃ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- What does the name Petrovics mean?
- Recorded meaning: Típusa: Apanévi eredetű, szláv családnév.
- In which country does Petrovics have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Petrovics in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled petrovics.
- How common is the name Petrovics?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 20 people named Petrovics, about 1 in 510 thousand residents.
- How common is Petrovics compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Petrovics is the 442nd most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petrovicsThe 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, “Petrovics” — the 442nd most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.