Makovec
surname · Latin script
Meaning: poppy seed cake
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məkɑvɛk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Makovec is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 17K
- CZCzechia1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
649 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
poppy seed cake
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Makovec 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.
649 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Miloš Makovecb. 1919CZfilm director and screenwriter (1919-2000)
- Maja Makovecb. 1949SIresearcher
- Tomaž Makovecb. 1959SIresearcher (ORCID 0000-0003-4226-2263)
- Nataša Makovecb. 1969SIresearcher
- Matej Makovecb. 1972SIresearcher
- Gregor Makovecb. 1973SIresearcher
- Melita Zver Makovecb. 1981SIresearcher
- Sara Makovecb. 2000SISlovene association football player
- Tihomir MakovecSIresearcher
- Maja Rus-MakovecSIresearcher
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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 649 | #376 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 501 | #3,020 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 501 | #2,830 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 307 | #61,207 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 301 | #65,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 292 | #71,896 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 245 | #3,379 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 224 | — |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 45 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #45,387 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Makovec mean, and where does it come from?
- poppy seed cake Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Makovec?
- A machine transcription gives /məkɑvɛk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Makovec have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 649 people named Makovec, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Makovec most common?
- Makovec is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Makovec?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 649 people named Makovec, about 1 in 3.2 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/makovecThe 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, “Makovec”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.