Povar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: , din \Went (17 B I 480), < subst
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Povar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 28Kas Повар(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 251Kas Повар
- PLPoland1 in 262K
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 Povar 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
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 262K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 named Повар, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Повар in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan.
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)
, din \Went (17 B I 480), < subst. povar, varianta la povara (Tiktin).
Sources 1
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Povar 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Повар | 36 |
| RU Russia | ≈570 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Повар | 106 |
| PL Poland | 146 | 1 in 262K | 74 | Povar | 2 |
| IN India | 135 | 1 in 9.8M | 135 | — | 1 |
| US United States | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | listed | Povar | 4 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 528K | — | Повар | 18 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | — |
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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Povar 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 io, to be able to (can)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Guido Povarb. 1942EEEstonian boxer (1942-2001)
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 135 | #23,284 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 74 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 74 | #37,505 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 72 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 72 | #38,745 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 4 | #163,601 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- Where does the name Povar come from?
- , din \Went (17 B I 480), < subst. povar, varianta la povara (Tiktin). Recorded by Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc.
- What does the name Povar mean?
- Recorded meaning: , din \Went (17 B I 480), < subst.
- In which country does Povar have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Повар in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Povar most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Povar is densest in Poland — about 1 in 262 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Povar?
- In Poland, the national register counted 146 people named Povar in 2026, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/povarThe 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, “Povar”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.