Radovan
given name · Czech · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Radovan is a given name, with more bearers in the Czechia than in any other country. In Montenegro it is the 53rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and Croatian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pers. name (R. Karadzic).
- SKSlovakia1 in 442◐
- RSSerbia1 in 464
- CZCzechia1 in 914
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈15K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 108 ●
- 1 in 914 ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
18K records
Official registry-verified
Czechia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Радован in BA Bosnia & Herzegovina, MK North Macedonia, RU Russia and 3 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●
pers. name (R. Karadzic)
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 9 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #190 | 11,714△ | 1.3K rec. | 1 in 914 | 12K | Radovan | 108 |
| RS Serbia | #81 | 6,917 | 4.2K rec. | — | listed | Radovan | 53 |
| SK Slovakia | #79 | 5,535 | 428 rec. | — | — | Radovan | 101 |
| HR Croatia | #359 | 1,828 | 7.1K rec. | 1 in 2.3K | 1.8K | Radovan | 67 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 770△ | 26 rec. | 1 in 2.7K | 770 | Radovan | 20 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #119 | 589 | 35 rec. | — | — | Радован | 19 |
| MK North Macedonia | #767 | 422△ | 9 rec. | 1 in 5K | 422 | Радован | 9 |
| XK Kosovo | #230 | 384 | 147 rec. | — | 473 | Radovan | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | 373 | 148 rec. | — | — | Радован | 51 |
| US United States | — | 284 | 1.8K rec. | 1 in 1.2M | 284 | Radovan | 86 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 258 | 122 rec. | — | — | Radovan | 32 |
| ME Montenegro | #53 | 244 | 65 rec. | — | #10 | Radovan | 21 |
Roughly 12K people in Czechia bear this name (about 1 in 914). 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●
- Czech57K61%
- Croatian20K22%
- Slovak5.6K6%
- English2.2K2%
- Serbian1.9K2%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Czech | 57,323 | 61% |
| Croatian | 20,105 | 22% |
| Slovak | 5,570 | 6% |
| English | 2,208 | 2% |
| Serbian | 1,856 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 95 |
| 2000 | 98 |
| 2001 | 100 |
| 2002 | 101 |
| 2003 | 99 |
| 2004 | 101 |
| 2005 | 98 |
| 2006 | 99 |
| 2007 | 101 |
| 2008 | 105 |
| 2009 | 106 |
| 2010 | 102 |
| 2011 | 101 |
| 2012 | 99 |
| 2013 | 102 |
| 2014 | 104 |
| 2015 | 104 |
| 2016 | 105 |
| 2017 | 103 |
| 2018 | 105 |
| 2019 | 106 |
| 2020 | 108 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Radovan Lukavskýb. 1919CZCzech dubbing actor, actor, professor and university educator (1919–2008)
- Radovan Ivšićb. 1921HRCroatian poet (1921–2009)
- Radovan Richtab. 1924CZCzech academic and philosopher
- Radovan Vlajkovićb. 1924RSPresident of SFR Yugoslavia (1924-2001)
- Radovan Karadžićb. 1945MEBosnian Serb politician, psychiatrist and poet convicted of genocide
- Radovan Fuchsb. 1953HRCroatian scientist and politician
- Radovan Vlatkovićb. 1962HRCroatian musician
- Radovan Viškovićb. 1964BAPrime Minister of Republika Srpska since 2018
- Radovan Hromádkob. 1969CZCzech soccer player and soccer representant
- Radovan Pankovb. 1995RSSerbian association football player
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 47 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 12K | #179 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 5.9K | #201 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 5.9K | #201 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.8K | #392 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.4K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 873 | #178 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 864 | #179 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 861 | #183 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 860 | #183 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 858 | #182 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 856 | #184 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 843 | #186 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 · 219 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Radovan?
- We estimate roughly 15 thousand people bear Radovan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Radovan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Radovan in the Czechia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled radovan.
- How common is Radovan compared with other names?
- In the Czechia, Radovan is the 190th most common given name of 28,899 given names recorded there.
- Is Radovan a male or female name?
- Radovan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Radovan mean?
- Recorded meaning: pers. name (R. Karadzic)
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, “Radovan” — the 190th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.