Kovács or Kovacs is one of the most common Hungarian family names.

History

The name is found in Hungary and Hungarian expatriate communities. There are similar names with the Kováts or Kovách spellings. The name means "blacksmith" in Hungarian, and it is a loanword from Slavic languages. There are 221,688 people in Hungary who are named Kovács, making the name the second most common family name among Hungarians.

Cognates

• Covaci in Romania
• Koufax in Yiddish
• Kovač in many South Slavic and West Slavic communities
• Kováč in Slovakia
• Kovach, the Carpatho-Ruthenian form
• Kovachev in Bulgaria
• Kovaçi in Albania
• Kaval in Belarus (also Kavalchuk, Kavalenka, Kavaliou, Kavalski, Kavalchyk, Kavalevich)
• Koval in Ukraine (also Kovalchuk, Kovalenko, Kovalev)
• Kovář (also Kováč) in Czech Republic…Read more on Wikipedia