Kovacs

8,746 people in the United States were counted with the surname Kovacs in the 2020 census, making it the 3,939th most common in the country. That is about one person in 34,200.

By the numbers

People: 8,746
Rank: 3,939th
How common: 1 in 34,200
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin Hungarian

From Hungarian Kovács, from kovács (“blacksmith”), from Proto-Slavic *kovačь.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 92.1%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.08%

Notable people called Kovacs

István Kovács (born 1984)Romanian association football referee
Ștefan Kovács (1920–1995)Romanian association football player
Joe Kovacs (born 1989)American track and field athlete
Pál Kovács (1912–1995)Hungarian fencer
László Kovács (1933–2007)Hungarian-American cinematographer
Miklós Kovács (1911–1977)Romanian footballer
Katalin Kovács (born 1976)Hungarian kayaker
Ágnes Kovács (born 1981)Hungarian swimmer

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

Surnames like Kovacs

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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.