Povh

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021

/pub/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Povh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian повх (povx) or Slovene polh, both from Proto-Slavic *pъlxъ. Compare Povkh and Poukh.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 8K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 157K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 351K

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.

Slovenia (measured from records)

264 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
18 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 8.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
PovhLatin(measured from records)
ПовхCyrillic(measured from records)

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)
Derivation of Povh: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Povh
  1. Ukrainianповхpovx(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Slavic*pъlxъ(measured from records)

From Ukrainian повх (povx) or Slovene polh, both from Proto-Slavic *pъlxъ. Compare Povkh and Poukh.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Povh 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.

Where Povh is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia2641 in 8K264Povh16
BR Brazil791 in 2.7M79——
HR Croatia271 in 157K31Povh16
AU Australia≈13 est.≈1 in 1.9M—Povh18
DE Germany≈11 est.≈1 in 7.1M—Povh14
EE Estonia≈4 est.≈1 in 351Klisted—3

264 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Povh is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Повх, Povkh, Povx

17 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
19201940196019802000Dušan Povh, b. 1921Bogdan Povh, b. 1932Janez Povh, b. 1973Olesya Povh, b. 1987Ksenja Povh, b. 1987

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)
FormalPrezado(a) Povh,Dear Povh, (English)
InformalPrezado(a) Povh,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Povh
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—264#1,547
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—79#75,534
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202131—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202127#19,415

Reference works 2

  • 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 Povh mean, and where does it come from?
From Ukrainian повх (povx) or Slovene polh, both from Proto-Slavic *pъlxъ. Compare Povkh and Poukh. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Povh?
A machine transcription gives /pub/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
In which country does Povh have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 264 people named Povh, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled povh.
Where is Povh most common?
Povh is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 8.0 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Povh?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 264 people named Povh, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.

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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, “Povh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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