# Jovanovic (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/jovanovic/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from Serbo-Croatian.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Serbo-Croatian |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 1,521 |
| US rank (2010) | 18,262 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 202,989 people |
| Change since 2000 | +29% (1,179 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | Jovanovich |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Jovanović.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Jovanovic in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 97% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.3% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.0% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Jovanovic in Cisleithania, Serbia and Montenegro, Serbia, Bulgaria and Australia.

## People named Jovanovic

- Stjepan Jovanović, Austrian military personnel (1828–1885)
- Vladislav Jovanović, Ambassador of Yugoslavia
- Saša Jovanović, association football player
- Konstantin Jovanović, architect (1849-1923)
- Aleksandar Jovanović, Australian association football player (1989-)

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.