Horvath

surname · Hungarian · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Horvath is a surname, most frequently recorded in Hungary, where it is the 5th most common surname. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From Hungarian Horváth, from horvát (“Croatian”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъ. Doublet of Croat.

rarermore common
  • HUHungary1 in 18◐
  • SKSlovakia1 in 213
  • CZCzechia1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈24K ●

across 14 countries

#431 ●

of 21M surnames

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
261 ●

48K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.4K ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

HorvathLatin · Hungarian●2.8M records
ฮอรวทThai · Thai●1 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Horvath: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Horvath
  1. HungarianHorváth●
  2. Hungarian roothorvát“Croatian”●
  3. Proto-Slavic*xъrvatъ●

From Hungarian Horváth, from horvát (“Croatian”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъ. Doublet of Croat.

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Horvath is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HU Hungary#52,814,77421K rec.—193KHorvath185
SK Slovakia#117,697468 rec.—15KHorvath97
US United States—15,30216K rec.1 in 22K16KHorvath261
CZ Czechia#1444,549△746 rec.1 in 2.4K4.5KHorvath75
GB United Kingdom—2,6031.5K rec.——Horvath101
RO Romania#2321,050310 rec.——Horvath40
CA Canada—697598 rec.——Horvath82
BR Brazil—6680 rec.1 in 317K668—1
SE Sweden—613△176 rec.1 in 17K613Horvath32
CH Switzerland—559△185 rec.1 in 15K559Horvath39
BE Belgium—380386 rec.1 in 31K487Horvath36
ES Spain—378371 rec.1 in 132K378Horvath35

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hungarian2.8M92%
  • English144K5%
  • Czech34K1%
  • Slovak17K1%
  • German15K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian2,804,39992%
English143,8485%
Czech33,9161%
Slovak16,8191%
German15,1871%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Horvath is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname180K records spelled Horvath21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Horváth, Horvàth, Horva'Th, Horvãth

  • a separate surname5.3K records spelled Horvath6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Switzerland

    Also written Horváth, Horvàth, Horvãth, Horvâth, Hórvath

  • Swahili surname749 records spelled Horvath4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa

    Also written Horváth

  • Italian surname448 records spelled Horvath2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada

    Also written Horváth

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05010015020019001920194019601980170 · 1961

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Horvath in INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000), France, 1891–1991
Yearrecords
18914
19015
19111
192126
193156
194161
1951151
1961170
1971139
1981123
199198

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019502000Johann Horvath, b. 1903János Horváth, b. 1921Zoltán Horváth, b. 1937David Horvath, b. 1971Ferenc Horváth, b. 1973Pavel Horváth, b. 1975Aaron Horvath, b. 1980Lili Horvát, b. 1982Ema Horvath, b. 1994Ethan Horvath, b. 1995

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 35 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Horvath
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200016K#2,147
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201015K#2,379
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202014K#2,449
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—668#13,111
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—613#1,586
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024559#2,287
BE BelgiumStatbel — Noms de famille (family names)—487#3,155
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)2008380#4,158
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—378#10,036
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—378#10,011
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—329—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—298#5,128

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 58 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Horvath?
We estimate roughly 24 thousand people bear Horvath (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Horvath have the most bearers?
Horvath is most frequently recorded in Hungary, where it is most often spelled horvath.
How common is Horvath compared with other names?
In Hungary, Horvath is the 5th most common surname of 83,469 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Horvath mean?
Recorded meaning: From Hungarian Horváth, from horvát (“Croatian”), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъ. Doublet of Croat.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Horvath” — the 5th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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