Markovich

surname · English · Latin script

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

Markovich is a surname, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. In U.S. Outlying Islands it is the 2nd most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Marko or Mark (see Mark 1).

rarermore common
  • ILIsrael1 in 2.3K◐
  • RORomania1 in 2.4K
  • LBLebanon1 in 3K

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

≈26K ●

across 15 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
310 ●

95K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 429 ◐

Croatia

Spellings & scripts●

MarkowitzLatin · English●45K records
מרקוביץHebrew · Hebrew●19K records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Markowitz in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more and מרקוביץ in IL Israel, PL Poland, LB Lebanon and 5 more.

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●

patronymic from the personal name Marko or Mark (see Mark 1).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Markovich is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia—9,854—1 in 4299.9K——
US United States—4,43563K rec.1 in 75K4.4KMarkowitz310
IL Israel#1953,83815K rec.1 in 2.3K3.8Kמרקוביץ35
PL Poland—2,278△262 rec.1 in 17K2.3Kמרקוביץ2
LB Lebanon#1272,0582.1K rec.——מרקוביץ1
CH Switzerland—2,055△34 rec.1 in 4.1K2.1KMarkovich3
RO Romania#1092,0442K rec.——מרקוביץ3
GB United Kingdom—1,9121.9K rec.——Markowitz32
SI Slovenia—1,502—1 in 1.4K1.5K——
CA Canada—1,1391.1K rec.——Markowitz37
SE Sweden—857△10 rec.1 in 12K857—3
AU Australia—755717 rec.——Markovich51

Roughly 9.9K people in Croatia bear this name (about 1 in 429). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • English23K76%
  • Spanish1.9K6%
  • Russian1K3%
  • 5142%
  • German4161%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English22,64976%
Spanish1,9476%
Russian1,0053%
5142%
German4161%

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◐

Markovich is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname1.7K records spelled Markovich49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Argentina, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Spanish

    Also written Маркович, Markovych, Marcovich, Markovic, Марковіч

  • Croatian surname240 records spelled Markovich72 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, Slovenia

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Hungarian

    Also written Marković, Markovic, Марковић, Маркович, Markovič

38 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.

Other recorded senses●

Markovich is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, Variante di Marchi

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

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●

16001700180019002000Anastasia Markovich, b. 1667Vasil Vasilevicz Marcowicz, b. 1865Dan Markovich, b. 1940Mitch Markovich, b. 1944Mark Markovich, b. 1952Igor Pak, b. 1971Erez Markovich, b. 1978Roy Menachem Markovich, b. 1979Yael Markovich, b. 1984

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 20 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Markovich
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.9K#10,317
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.8K#11,327
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.5K#11,813
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—134—
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—23#77,207
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—23#75,692
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202620—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—20#90,011
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202619—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—19#92,897
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#38,059
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—15#36,776

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 22 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Markovich?
We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Markovich (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Markovich have the most bearers?
We estimate about 9.9 thousand people bear Markovich in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records.
How common is Markovich compared with other names?
In U.S. Outlying Islands, Markovich is the 2nd most common surname of 947 surnames recorded there.
What does the name Markovich mean?
Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Marko or Mark (see Mark 1).
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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, “Markovich” — the 2nd most common surname in U.S. Outlying Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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