Markovitz
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Markovitz 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: Variant spelling of Slavic and Jewish Markovich, Markovic, or Markowicz.
- 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 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 310 ●
- 1 in 429 ◐
across 15 countries
recorded for this name
95K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Markowitz in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more, מרקוביץ in IL Israel, PL Poland, LB Lebanon and 5 more and Markovich in CH Switzerland, AR Argentina, AU Australia and 4 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●
Variant spelling of Slavic and Jewish Markovich, Markovic, or Markowicz.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | — | 9,854 | — | 1 in 429 | 9.9K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 4,435 | 63K rec. | 1 in 75K | 4.4K | Markowitz | 310 |
| IL Israel | #195 | 3,838 | 15K rec. | 1 in 2.3K | 3.8K | מרקוביץ | 35 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,278△ | 262 rec. | 1 in 17K | 2.3K | מרקוביץ | 2 |
| LB Lebanon | #127 | 2,058 | 2.1K rec. | — | — | מרקוביץ | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 2,055△ | 34 rec. | 1 in 4.1K | 2.1K | Markovich | 3 |
| RO Romania | #109 | 2,044 | 2K rec. | — | — | מרקוביץ | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 1,912 | 1.9K rec. | — | — | Markowitz | 32 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 1,502 | — | 1 in 1.4K | 1.5K | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | 1,139 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Markowitz | 37 |
| SE Sweden | — | 857△ | 10 rec. | 1 in 12K | 857 | — | 3 |
| AU Australia | — | 755 | 717 rec. | — | — | Markovich | 51 |
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●
- English7.2K80%
- Spanish3354%
- German3003%
- Hebrew2553%
- 1822%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 7,172 | 80% |
| Spanish | 335 | 4% |
| German | 300 | 3% |
| Hebrew | 255 | 3% |
| 182 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Moses Markovitzb. 1902CZHolocaust victim (born 1902)
- Benno Markovitzb. 1929CZHolocaust victim (born 1929)
- Ferry Markovitzb. 1939CZHolocaust victim (born 1939)
- Steven Markovitzb. 1965ZASouth African film and television producer
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 674 | #35,833 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 662 | #34,272 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 610 | #35,003 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 10 | #60,931 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #93,533 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 3 | #11,864 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #363,448 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #358,413 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Markovitz?
- We estimate roughly 26 thousand people bear Markovitz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
- In which country does Markovitz have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 9.9 thousand people bear Markovitz in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records.
- How common is Markovitz compared with other names?
- In U.S. Outlying Islands, Markovitz is the 2nd most common surname of 947 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Markovitz mean?
- Recorded meaning: Variant spelling of Slavic and Jewish Markovich, Markovic, or Markowicz.
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Markovitz” — the 2nd most common surname in U.S. Outlying Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.