Kovač
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),[1] 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
- 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
Kovač
- 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
See also
- All pages with titles containing Kovac
- Kováčik, surname
- Kovačić (surname)
- Kovačina (surname)
- Kovačec, surname
- Kovaček, surname
- Kovačev, surname
- Kovačevik, surname
- Kovačević, surname
- Kovačevski, surname
- Kovács, surname
- List of most common surnames in Europe
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.
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