Kovacevic
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from kovac ‘smith’ (see Kovac)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəvəˈtʃɛvɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kovacevic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common surname.
- HRCroatia1 in 279(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 445
- RSSerbia≈1 in 595
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
- 196 (measured from records)
- 1 in 279 (inferred from the name graph)
15,160 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 Kovačević 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)
patronymic from kovac ‘smith’ (see Kovac).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kovacevic 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 | #2 | 15,160 | 1 in 279 | 15K | Kovačević | 93 |
| RS Serbia | #20 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 595 | listed | Kovačević | 79 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #1 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 445 | — | Kovačević | 30 |
| SI Slovenia | #172 | 2,155 | 1 in 976 | 2.2K | Kovačević | 18 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Kovacevic | 111 |
| ME Montenegro | #11 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | #6 | Kovačević | 35 |
15,160 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)
- Goran Kovacevicb. 1971CHSwiss composer
- Evgeniya Eshkina-Kovacevicb. 1983actress
- Christian Kovacevicb. 1983ATAustrian politician
- Ana Kovacevicb. 1992HRCroatian association football player
- Jade Kovacevicb. 1994CACanadian association football player
- Dejan Kovačevićb. 1996RSBosnian-German basketball player
- Johnathan Kovacevicb. 1997CACanadian ice hockey player
- Aleksandar Kovacevicb. 1998USAmerican tennis player
- Dino Kovacevicb. 1999ATAustrian association football player
- Sanja Kovacevicb. 2003CHSwiss association football player
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 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ME Montenegro | MONSTAT — census names | — | — | #6 |
| ME Montenegro | Statistical Office of Montenegro (MONSTAT) | 2023 | — | #6 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kovacevic?
- A machine transcription gives /kəvəˈtʃɛvɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Kovacevic mean?
- Recorded meaning: patronymic from kovac ‘smith’ (see Kovac).
- In which country does Kovacevic have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 15 thousand people named Kovacevic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kovačević.
- Where is Kovacevic most common?
- Kovacevic is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 279 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kovacevic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 15,160 people named Kovacevic in 2021, about 1 in 279 residents.
- How common is Kovacevic compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Kovacevic is the 2nd 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/kovacevicThe 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, “Kovacevic” — the 2nd most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.