Kovar
surname · Latin script
Meaning: occupational name from Czech kovar ‘smith’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Kovar is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 7,032 people, counted by MVČR.
- CZCzechia1 in 1.5K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 48K
- HRCroatia1 in 117K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
7,032 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)occupational name from Czech kovar ‘smith’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kovar is found
(measured from records)Kovar 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #348 | 7,032 | 1 in 1.5K | 7K | Kovar | 85 |
| US United States | — | 2,473 | 1 in 135K | 2.5K | Kovar | 83 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 275K | — | Kovar | 19 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 114 | 1 in 48K | 114 | Kovar | 28 |
| HR Croatia | — | 36 | 1 in 117K | 36 | — | — |
7,032 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017, counting the spelling kovář. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Kovar is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, third-person singular indicative aorist of kovmak
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Kurdish, magazine, journal, periodical
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Joey Kovarb. 1983USAmerican model and reality television star and bodybuilder
- Stefan Kovarb. 2002ATAustrian cyclist
- Kai Kovarb. 2006USfigure skater
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kovar mean, and where does it come from?
- occupational name from Czech kovar ‘smith’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kovar?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 7.0 thousand people named Kovar, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kovar. After it come United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia and Croatia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kovar most common?
- Kovar is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kovar?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 7,032 people named Kovar, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Kovar compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Kovar is the 348th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kovar?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kovarThe 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, “Kovar” — ranked 67th in Czechia (naše jména). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.