Kovalchuk

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Kovalchuk (Russian, Ukrainian: Ковальчу́к), Kavalchuk (Belarusian: Кавальчу́к), also transliterated as a German adaptation Kowalchuk (in the North American diaspora), is a common Slavic surname. The Kovalchuk name extends back to before 1500 AD in the Kievan Rus Empire.

"Koval" Ковал), literally translates as “forge”, and was commonly used to describe a blacksmith (Blacksmith is direct translation of the name from the Ukrainian.) The suffix “-chuk” (or -chuck or -czyk) denoted either the son of, or an apprentice to the blacksmith. It is somewhat similar in commonality to English surname Smith.

In East Slavic Languages, the correct pronunciation would be ko-vahl-CHOOK, but for those living in the West, for example Ukrainian Canadians, the pronunciation ko-WAL-chuk is more common. The Polish form is Kowalczyk.

People

Anna Kovalchuk (born 1977), Russian actress
Chris Kowalczuk, Canadian footballer
Serghei Covalciuc (born 1982), Moldovan-Russian footballer
Syarhey Kavalchuk (born 1978), Belarusian footballer
Ilya Kovalchuk (born 1983), Russian professional ice hockey player
Kyrylo Kovalchuk (born 1986), Ukrainian footballer
Mikhail Kovalchuk (born 1946), Scientific Secretary of the Council for Science and High Technologies attached to the President of the Russian Federation
Victoria Kovalchuk (born 1954), Galician artist
Peter Kowalchuk, Pastor and founder of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Caracas (Venezuela)
Yury Kovalchuk (born 1951), Russian businessman, head of the Board of Directors of the Russia bank

v t e Surnames associated with the occupation of smith

Gaelic	Cowell Gow Gowan Mac a' Ghobhainn MacGavin / McGavin MacGowan / McGowan

Germanic	De Smet Schmid Schmidt Schmied Schmitt Schmitz Smeets Smet Smets Smit Smith Smithe Smither Smithers Smithies Smithson Smits Smyth Smythe

Indic	Lohar

Kartvelian	Mchedlidze Mchedlishvili

Romance	Fabbri Faber Fabre Fabri Favre Feaver Ferrara Ferrari Ferraris Ferraro Ferrara Ferreira Ferrer Ferrero Ferreiro Ferretti Ferrier Fieraru Fierarul Herrera Herrero Lefébure Lefebvre Lefèvre

Semitic	Al-Haddad El-Haddad Haddad

Slavic	Covaci Kovač Kovačev Kovačević Kovachev Kovačić Kovács Koval Kovalchuk Kovalenko Kovalevich Kovalevsky Kovalic Kovals Kovalyov Kovář Kovařík Kowal Kowalczyk Kowalewski Kowalski Kuznets Kuznetsov

Turkic	Demirci Demircioğlu

Uralic	Sepp Seppä Seppänen Seppälä

From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith'	Funke Vonck Vonk

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