Knezevic
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɛzɛvɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Knezevic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Knežević (meaning "son of a prince"), from Proto-Slavic *kъ̏nędzь.
- HRCroatia1 in 409(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 993
- DEGermany≈1 in 68K
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
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 409 (inferred from the name graph)
10,334 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 Knežević in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, SI Slovenia 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)
- Serbo-CroatianKnežević“son of a prince”(measured from records)
- Proto-Slavic*kъ̏nędzь(measured from records)
Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Knežević (meaning "son of a prince"), from Proto-Slavic *kъ̏nędzь.
Sources 1
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Knezevic 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 | #9 | 10,334 | 1 in 409 | 10K | Knežević | 83 |
| RS Serbia | #44 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 993 | listed | Knežević | 69 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #28 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Knežević | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Knezevic | 90 |
| SI Slovenia | #614 | 798 | 1 in 2.6K | 798 | Knežević | 11 |
| ME Montenegro | #13 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | #8 | Knežević | 26 |
10,334 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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); the me-monstat-census register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Slavica Kneževićb. 1955HRactor
- Patti Knezevicb. 1973CACanadian curler
- Alexander Knezevicb. 1981ATAustrian association football player
- Luka Knezevicb. 1992DEGerman actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ME Montenegro | MONSTAT — census names | — | — | #8 |
| ME Montenegro | Statistical Office of Montenegro (MONSTAT) | 2023 | — | #8 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Knezevic mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Knežević (meaning "son of a prince"), from Proto-Slavic *kъ̏nędzь. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Knezevic?
- A machine transcription gives /nɛzɛvɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Knezevic have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Knezevic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled knežević.
- Where is Knezevic most common?
- Knezevic is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 409 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Knezevic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 10,334 people named Knezevic in 2021, about 1 in 409 residents.
- How common is Knezevic compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Knezevic is the 9th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/knezevicThe 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, “Knezevic” — the 9th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.