The Horvat surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,674 people carried this name — #16,975 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 175,400 people counted. That is up 1% from 1,661 in 2000.
What the name means
The meaning of the Horvat surname
A male surname originating as an ethnonym.
From Chorvát (“Croatian”) or Hungarian Horváth.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Horvat» (Slovak), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
347 people named Horvat live in Switzerland.
They live in 21 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 242 people named Horvat.
Most of them — 127 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 35 départements, most often Moselle.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 222 people named Horvat live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Buenos Aires Province.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
227 people named Horvat is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
In print
Horvat in American newspapers,
1906–1961.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,184 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Horvat,
with a public archive behind them.
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Árpád Horvát 1855–1887 · naturalist -
Franc Horvat 1870–1944 · painter -
Rudolf Horvat 1873–1947 · politician -
Aleksandar Horvat 1875–1928 · politician -
Josip Horvat 1896–1968 · writer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 218 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Horvat.
- Horny 132 · U.S. census
- Horry 386 · U.S. census
- Horst 9,245 · U.S. census
- Horta 3,889 · U.S. census
- Horter 309 · U.S. census
- Horth 215 · U.S. census
- Horvath 15,302 · U.S. census
- Hoss 3,033 · U.S. census
- Host 1,519 · U.S. census
- Hoste 199 · U.S. census
- Hosten 318 · U.S. census
- Hostettler 670 · U.S. census
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