S-Ova
surname · Latin script
S-Ova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From a Sami name (Northern Sami Čoavvá).
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8Kas Сова(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 61Kas Сова
- USUnited States1 in 122Kas Sowa
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 S-Ova 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 262 (measured from records)
- 1 in 8.4K (inferred from the name graph)
20,402 named Sowa, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Сова in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, FI Finland and 1 more and Sova in US United States.
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)
From a Sami name (Northern Sami Čoavvá).
Sources 4
- Digital Pāḷi Dictionary
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
Where in the world(measured from records)
S-Ova 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 20,402as Sowa | 1 in 1.9K | 10K | — | — |
| CN China | — | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 208K | — | Сова | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | #824 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Сова | 43 |
| US United States | — | 2,729as Sowa | 1 in 122K | 2.8K | Sova | 262 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Сова | 122 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 1,278 | 1 in 8.4K | 1.3K | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 567 | 1 in 9.8K | 567 | Сова | 6 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 174 | 1 in 31K | 174 | — | 2 |
20,402 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name S-Ova mean, and where does it come from?
- From a Sami name (Northern Sami Čoavvá). Recorded by Digital Pāḷi Dictionary and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and 2 other sources.
- In which country does S-Ova have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Sowa, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is S-Ova most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, S-Ova is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 8.4 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name S-Ova?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1,278 people named S-Ova, about 1 in 8.4 thousand residents.
- How common is S-Ova compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, S-Ova is the 824th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/s-ovaThe 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, “S-Ova” — the 824th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.