Sovány

surname · Latin script

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

Sovány is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: thin, slim, slender (having little body fat or flesh).

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 203K(inferred from the name graph)

carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Hungary (inferred from the name graph)

≈48 people, est.

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 203K (inferred from the name graph)

Hungary, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sovany in HU Hungary, 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)

thin, slim, slender (having little body fat or flesh)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sovány 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 Sovány is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary≈48 est.≈1 in 203K—Sovany12
US United States——listedSovany3

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.

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)

Sovány is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia

    Also written Sovany

  • English surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Sovany

2 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)

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 1 sources across 0 countries.

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

What does the name Sovány mean, and where does it come from?
thin, slim, slender (having little body fat or flesh) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Sovány have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 48 people named Sovány in Hungary, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sovany.
How common is the name Sovány?
Mondonomo estimates about 48 people in Hungary have Sovány as their first surname, about 1 in 203 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.

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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sov%C3%A1ny

The same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.

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, “Sovány”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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