Markovitz
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Variant spelling of Slavic and Jewish Markovich, Markovic, or Markowicz
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmɑɹkəvɪts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Markovitz is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common surname.
- RORomania≈1 in 1.3Kas מרקוביץ(inferred from the name graph)
- LBLebanon≈1 in 2.2Kas מרקוביץ
- ILIsrael1 in 2.3Kas מרקוביץ
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Markovitz itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 353 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 98 (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 named מרקוביץ, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
U.S. Outlying Islands, est., as Markovich
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled מרקוביץ in IL Israel, RO Romania, PL Poland and 1 more, Markowitz in US United States and Markovich in UM U.S. Outlying Islands.
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)
Variant spelling of Slavic and Jewish Markovich, Markovic, or Markowicz.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Markovitz 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #56 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | מרקוביץ | 4 |
| HR Croatia | — | 9,854as Marković | 1 in 429 | 9.9K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 4,435as Markowitz | 1 in 75K | 4.4K | Markowitz | 353 |
| PL Poland | — | 4,434as Markowicz | 1 in 8.6K | 2.3K | מרקוביץ | 2 |
| IL Israel | #187 | 3,838as מרקוביץ | 1 in 2.3K | 3.8K | מרקוביץ | 43 |
| LB Lebanon | #126 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | מרקוביץ | 1 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,502as Marković | 1 in 1.4K | 1.5K | — | — |
| UM U.S. Outlying Islands | #2 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 98 | — | Markovich | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Moses Markovitzb. 1902CZHolocaust victim (born 1902)
- Benno Markovitzb. 1929CZHolocaust victim (born 1929)
- Ferry Markovitzb. 1939CZHolocaust victim (born 1939)
- Steven Markovitzb. 1965ZASouth African film and television producer
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 674 | #35,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 662 | #34,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 610 | #35,003 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #358,413 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #363,448 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Markovitz mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant spelling of Slavic and Jewish Markovich, Markovic, or Markowicz. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Markovitz?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɑɹkəvɪts/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Markovitz have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named מרקוביץ in Romania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Markovitz?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 9,854 people named Marković in 2021, about 1 in 429 residents.
- How common is Markovitz compared with other names?
- In Romania, Markovitz is the 56th most common surname of 78,699 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Markovitz?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/markovitzThe 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, “Markovitz” — the 56th most common surname in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.