Kovacs

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Kovacs or Kovács, or in its Slavic variant spelling Kovač or Kovac, is a common family name. (There are similar names with the Kováts and Kovách form with the same spelling.) Kovács means smith in the Hungarian language, Kovač means the same in some Slavic languages.

It is a cognate to English name Smith. There are 221,687 people in Hungary who are called Kovács; thus Kovács is the second most common family name among Hungarians.

Fictional characters:

  • Steven M. Kovacs, played by Matthew Broderick in the movie "The Cable Guy" with Jim Carrey
  • Takeshi Kovacs, a fictional character in many books by Richard Morgan
  • Walter Kovacs, the identity of the character Rorschach, in the DC Comic series Watchmen

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