Kovachev
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/koʊvɑkɛv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kovachev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 10Kas Kovačev
- RURussia≈1 in 651Kas Ковачев
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 Kovachev 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kovačev in HR Croatia, RS Serbia and Ковачев in RU Russia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kovachev 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #148 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Kovachev | 95 |
| RS Serbia | #603 | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kovačev | 18 |
| HR Croatia | — | 422as Kovačev | 1 in 10K | 422 | Kovačev | 25 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 651K | — | Ковачев | 71 |
| US United States | — | 105 | 1 in 3.2M | 105 | Kovachev | 68 |
| NO Norway | — | 22 | 1 in 249K | 22 | Kovachev | 4 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 16as Ковачев | 1 in 133K | 16 | Kovachev | 3 |
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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
- Nikola Kovachevb. 1934BGBulgarian footballer (1934-2009)
- Milko Kovachevb. 1957BGBulgarian politician
- Pavel Kovachevb. 1987BGBulgarian footballer
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 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 105 | #154,907 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 22 | #40,541 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Kovachev?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊvɑkɛv/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- In which country does Kovachev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.6 thousand people named Kovachev in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kovachev.
- How common is the name Kovachev?
- In the United States, the national register counted 105 people named Kovachev in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
- How common is Kovachev compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Kovachev is the 148th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kovachev?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kovachevThe 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, “Kovachev” — the 148th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.