Misplaced Pages

Kovač: Difference between revisions

Article snapshot taken from Wikipedia with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Browse history interactively← Previous editNext edit →Content deleted Content addedVisualWikitext
Revision as of 22:25, 30 December 2020 editIshurio19 (talk | contribs)Extended confirmed users1,154 editsm →Kovač: Fixed double nameTag: Visual edit← Previous edit Revision as of 01:23, 2 January 2021 edit undoHergilei (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users56,787 edits →topNext edit →
Line 1: Line 1:
{{wiktionary|Kovac|kovač|Kovač|kováč|Kováč}}
{{Other uses|Kovač (disambiguation){{!}}Kovač}} {{Other uses|Kovač (disambiguation){{!}}Kovač}}
{{distinguish|Kovack|Kovak (disambiguation){{!}}Kovak}} {{distinguish|Kovack|Kovak (disambiguation){{!}}Kovak}}

Revision as of 01:23, 2 January 2021

For other uses, see Kovač. Not to be confused with Kovack or Kovak.

Kovač (Cyrillic: Ковач), meaning "blacksmith" in Slavic languages, is a common surname in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Serbia. In Slovakia the surname is Kováč (feminine: Kováčová).

Kovač is a common surname in Croatia, with 9,614 carriers (2011 census), most of them living in northern and eastern parts of the country and in Serbia with 8,749 people bearing it. In Slovenia, some 4,800 have this surname. Outside Europe, the surname is fairly common in the United States (especially Texas and California), Canada, and South America.

The surname Kovács is the Hungarian loanword of this word, and is one of the most frequent surnames in Hungary. The Romanian form is Covaci, and it is also a relatively frequent surname in Romania. The derivative forms Kovačić or Slovenian Kovačič, as well as Kovačević and Bulgarian Kovachev, are also very common.

Cognates

Notable people

Kovač

Kováč

Kováčová

Kovach

  • Michael Kovach (born 1995), American actor

Fictional

  • Luka Kovač, doctor portrayed by Goran Višnjić on ER
  • Steve Kovac, character cryogenically frozen in Howard Fast's The Cold, Cold Box

See also

References

  1. "Names and surnames in Republic of Croatia". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012. Retrieved 2013-09-08.
Surname listThis page lists people with the surname Kovač, or Kováč (Kováčová).
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
Surnames associated with the occupation of smith
Celtic
Germanic
Romance
Semitic
Slavic
Other
From "spark"
rel. to occ. 'smith'
Categories: