Kovač

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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. The surname is one of the most common surnames in five counties of Croatia. It is common 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

Koval in Ukraine (also Kovalchuk, Kovalenko, Kovalev)
Kowal in Poland (also Kowalczyk, Kowalski)
Kovach, the Carpatho-Ruthenian form
Kovács, Kováts or Kovách in Hungary
Kováč in Slovakia
Kovář (also Kováč) in Czech Republic
Kovaçi in Albania
Covaci in Romania

Notable people

Aleksandra Kovač (born 1972), Serbian singer/songwriter
Boris Kovač (born 1955), Serbian composer and multi-instrumentalist
Edvard Kovač (born 1950), Slovenian theologian
Jože Kovač (born 1961), Slovenian hockey player
Kornelije Kovač (born 1942), Serbian musician/producer
Kristina Kovač (born 1974), Serbian singer/songwriter
Marko Kovač (born 1981), Serbian architect, film director and actor
Mario Kovač (disambiguation), multiple people
Mirko Kovač (1938–2013), Montenegrin writer
Mirko Kovač (born 1983), Serbian basketball player
Mišo Kovač (born 1941), Croatian singer
Niko Kovač (born 1971), Croatian football player
Robert Kovač (born 1974), Croatian football player
Roberto Kovac (born 1990), Swiss basketball player
Slobodan Kovač (born 1967), Serbian volleyball player
Sonja Kovač (born 1984), Croatian actress and model
Tinkara Kovač (born 1978), Slovenian singer/musician
Thomas Kovač, Belgian researcher

Kováč

Alan Kováč (born 1993), Slovak footballer
Dušan Kováč (born 1942), Slovak historian
Ervín Kováč (1911–1972), Slovak footballer
Henrich Kováč (born 1994), Slovak footballer
Igor Kováč (born 1969), Slovak athlete
Lukáš Kováč (born 1987), Slovak footballer
Maroš Kováč (born 1977), Slovak cyclist
Matej Kováč (born 1985), Slovak footballer
Michal Kováč (1930–2016), President of Slovakia
Pavel Kováč (born 1974), Slovak footballer
Radoslav Kováč (born 1979), Czech footballer
Tibor Kováč (1905–1952), Slovak Jewish activist
Vladimír Kováč (born 1991), Slovak footballer
William James Kováč, Slovak-British illustrator

Kováčová

Alena Kováčová (born 1978), Slovak basketball player
Emília Kováčová (born 1931), First Lady of Slovakia
Ivana Kováčová (born 1992), Slovak gymnast
Kateřina Kováčová (born 1982), Czech poet
Lenka Kováčová (born 1966), Czech rower

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

References

"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.
"Most frequent surnames, 2011 Census". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.

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v t e Surnames associated with the occupation of smith
Celtic	Goff Goffe Gow Gowan Gowans Le Goff Mac a' Ghobhainn MacGavin / McGavin MacGowan / McGowan
Germanic	Brenneis De Smedt De Smet Eisen Eisler Eisner Kleinschmidt Klier Klingbeil Klinkhamer Klinkhammer Nagel Pinkert Schmid Schmidt Schmied Schmieden Schmitt Schmitz Schmitzer Smed Smeets Smet Smets Smidt Smit Smith Smithe Smither Smithers Smithies Smithson Smits Smyth Smythe Szmidt Šmíd
Romance	Fabbri Faber Fabre Fabri Faure Favre Feaver Ferrara Ferrari Ferraris Ferraro Ferré Ferreira Ferrer Ferrero Ferreiro Ferretti Ferreyra Ferrier Ferriero Fieraru Fierarul Herrera Herrero Lefébure Lefebvre Lefèvre
Semitic	Haddad Hadodo Al-Haddad El-Haddad
Slavic	Covaci Coval Covali Covaliov Kavalyow Kovač Kováč Kovach Kovačević Kovačevič Kovačovič Kovačev Kovachev Kovačec Kovačevski Kovačić Kovačič Kovačik Kováčik Kovack Kovács Koval Kovalchuk Kovalenko Kovalevich Kovalevsky Kovalic Kovalik Kovalik Kovalkov Kovals Kovalsky Kovalyov Kovalyuk Kovář Kovařík Kowal Kowalik Kowalczyk Kowalczuk Kowalewicz Kowalewski Kowalski Kuznets Kuznetsov Kuźniar
Other	Armenian: Darbinyan Baltic Kalējs Kalvaitis (Kalwejt, Kallweit, etc.) Kavaliauskas Šmits Finnic Sepp Seppä Seppänen Seppälä Indic: Lohar Kartvelian Mchedlidze Mchedlishvili Turkic Demirci Demircioğlu
From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith'	Funk Funke Vonck Vonk

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