Koval
also Kowal
The smith — the bare forge-name of the steppe.
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- Ukrainian
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Help rebuild the Koval clan →What does the Koval name mean?
The smith — koval, the forge-worker, bare and unsuffixed (kovaty, to forge). The Ukrainian cousin of Smith, Schmidt and the Polish Kowalski.
The history of Koval
Koval is the smith plain and unadorned, where Polish dresses the same word as Kowalski and German as Schmidt — the indispensable village trade, named again in a sixth European tongue. Common across Ukraine in its own right, it also fathered a whole family of -enko and -chuk forms, Kovalenko and Kovalchuk among the country's most numerous names.
The same name across Europe
Koval shares its meaning — not its bloodline — with these names from other corners of Europe: cognates, the same word for the same thing, formed independently in each language. Cousins by meaning, with separate ancestral stories a search box flattens into near-twins.
- FerrariItalianThe smith — Italy's Smith, and a name that means speed.
- KowalskiPolishOf the smith — Poland's Smith, in the gentry's -ski.
- LefebvreFrenchThe smith — Smith and Schmidt's French cousin.
- SchmidtGermanThe forge surname of the German lands — Smith's cousin by meaning, not by blood.
- SmitDutchThe smith — Smith and Schmidt's Dutch cousin.
- SmithScotlandThe forge surname, the most common occupational name in Scotland and the world.
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