Povkh
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pɔu̯x/(recorded in a dictionary) Ukrainian · from Wiktionary · read from повх
Povkh is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian Повх (Povx), from Ukrainian повх (povx, “water vole”), from Proto-Slavic *pъlxъ. Compare Povh. Doublet of Poukh.
- PLPoland1 in 121K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 700K
- ESSpain1 in 3.1M
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 Povkh 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)
- Record sources
- 109 (measured from records)
- 1 in 121K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 named Повх, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Повх in UA Ukraine, RU Russia.
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)- UkrainianПовхPovx(measured from records)
- Ukrainianповхpovx“water vole”(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*pъlxъ(measured from records)
From Ukrainian Повх (Povx), from Ukrainian повх (povx, “water vole”), from Proto-Slavic *pъlxъ. Compare Povh. Doublet of Poukh.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Povkh 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.
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); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021). 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)Povkh 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 English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Повх (Povx).
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 165 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 165 | #19,636 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 151 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 151 | #20,840 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Povkh mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ukrainian Повх (Povx), from Ukrainian повх (povx, “water vole”), from Proto-Slavic *pъlxъ. Compare Povh. Doublet of Poukh. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Povkh?
- In Ukrainian /pɔu̯x/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Povkh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Повх in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Povkh most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Povkh is densest in Poland — about 1 in 121 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Povkh?
- In Poland, the national register counted 316 people named Povkh in 2026, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/povkhThe 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, “Povkh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.