Čavka
surname · Latin script
Meaning: jackdaw
/tʃâːʋka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Čavka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 9.9K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 17K
- SESweden1 in 150K
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.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 41 (measured from records)
- 1 in 9.9K (inferred from the name graph)
426 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Cavka in US United States, AU Australia, SE Sweden and 2 more.
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)
jackdaw
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Čavka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 426 | 1 in 9.9K | 426 | Čavka | 19 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Čavka | 3 |
| SE Sweden | 68 | 1 in 150K | 68 | Cavka | 7 |
| AU Australia | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 589K | — | Cavka | 28 |
| US United States | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.5M | listed | Cavka | 41 |
| NO Norway | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | Cavka | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | 21 | 1 in 400K | 21 | Cavka | 3 |
426 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Čavka 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 Serbo-Croatian, „ptica coloeus monedula“
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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)
Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 426 | #1,742 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 393 | — |
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 Čavka mean, and where does it come from?
- jackdaw Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Čavka?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃâːʋka/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Čavka have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 426 people named Čavka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled čavka.
- Where is Čavka most common?
- Čavka is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.9 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Čavka?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 426 people named Čavka in 2021, about 1 in 9.9 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/%C4%8DavkaThe 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, “Čavka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.