Kovach
Kovach (name) means a surname of Slavic origin meaning "blacksmith," a variant of Kovac. Example: “The Kovach family emigrated from Slovakia in the 1920s.”
Word forms
- Plural
- Kovaches
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Etymology
Comes from Czech and Slovak Kováč, Slovene Kovač, Serbo-Croatian Kòvač, Hungarian Kovács, Bulgarian ковач (kovač) or Polish Kowacz, all from Slavic words meaning "blacksmith", which ultimately go back to Proto-Slavic *kovati (“to forge”). It is a doublet of Kovac, Kovack, and Kovacs.