Savic

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Savic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Savić.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 418(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 2K
  • ATAustria≈1 in 6.8K

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.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈17,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
160 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 418 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SavicLatin(measured from records)
СавићCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Savić in RS Serbia, HR Croatia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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)

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Savić.

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Savic 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 Savic is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#10≈17,000 est.≈1 in 418listedSavić89
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#13≈4,900 est.≈1 in 790—Savić33
HR Croatia#1102,1271 in 2K2.1KSavić50
CH Switzerland#7051,3291 in 6.3K1.3KSavic31
AT Austria#421≈1,300 est.≈1 in 6.8K—Savic52
SI Slovenia#2431,2951 in 1.6K1.3KSavic19

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Savic is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Savìč, Savić, Saviç, Savič

  • Czech surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Savić, Savič

  • Russian surname29 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Савич, Savych, Савіч, Savich, Савыч

  • Italian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Serbia, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written Savić

  • Romanian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium

    Also written Savić

37 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)

1850190019502000Milunka Savić, b. 1890Pavle Savić, b. 1909Ljubiša Savić, b. 1958Sonja Savić, b. 1961Massimo Savić, b. 1962Zoran Savić, b. 1966Marta Savić, b. 1966Maja Savić, b. 1976Vujadin Savić, b. 1990Stefan Savić, b. 1991

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 25 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Savic
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)20241.3K#814
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—5#27,426

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Savic mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Savić. Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Savic have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Savic in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled savić.
How common is the name Savic?
In Croatia, the national register counted 2,127 people named Savic in 2021, about 1 in 2.0 thousand residents.
How common is Savic compared with other names?
In Serbia, Savic is the 10th most common surname of 45,065 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Savic” — the 10th most common surname in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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