Kovac

Kovac is the 10,909th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,789 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 107,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,789
Rank: 10,909th
How common: 1 in 107,000
Per 100,000: 0.93

Where the name comes from

Origin Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Serbo-Croatian

From Czech and Slovak Kováč, Slovene Kovač, or Serbo-Croatian Kòvač, all meaning "blacksmith".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Kovac described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.07%

Notable people called Kovac

Niko Kovač (born 1971)Croatian footballer and manager
Robert Kovač (born 1974)Croatian footballer
Michal Kováč (1930–2016)Slovak economist, politician, president of the Slovakia
Radoslav Kováč (born 1979)Czech footballer
Tinkara Kovač (born 1978)Slovenian singer
Mirko Kovač (1938–2013)Yugoslav writer
Miro Kovač (born 1968)Croatian diplomat and politician
Igor Kováč (born 1969)Czechoslovak hurdler

People named Kovac with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Kovac

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.