Kovačić (Serbo-Croatian, Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Ковачић), alternatively spelled Kovačič in Slovene and Slovak (feminine (Slovak): Kovačičová), Kovacsics in Hungarian, or transliterated as Kovacic/Kovacich/Kovachich in English, is one of the most common surnames in Croatia, Slovenia, as well as Hungary and Serbia. Etymologically it is a patronymic derivative of the surname Kovač, which is a Slavic cognate of the English surname Smith, and as such is closely related to the similar surname Kovačević.

In Croatia the form Kovačić is more common than Kovač, whereas in Slovenia it is the other way around. There are around 12,000 people with this surname in Croatia, making it the 7th most common in the country.^[1]

It may refer to:

• Anikó Kovacsics (b. 1991), Hungarian handballer
• Ante Kovačić (1854–1889), Croatian writer
• Antun Kovacic (born 1981), Australian footballer
• Bruno Kovačić (b. 1967), Croatian musician
• Dieter Kovačič (b. 1973), real name of the Austrian musician better known as Dieb13
• Emilio Kovačić (b. 1968), Croatian basketball player
• Igor Kovačić (b. 1979), Serbian sprint canoer
• Ivan Goran Kovačić (1913–1943), Croatian poet
• Lojze Kovačič (1928–2004), Slovenian writer
• Maria Kovacic, Australian politician
• Mateo Kovačić (b. 1994), Croatian footballer
• Miklós Kovacsics (1953–2005), Hungarian handball player
• Miljenko Kovačić (1973–2005), Croatian footballer
• Miodrag Kovačić (b. 1965), Serbian weightlifter
• Peter Kovačič Peršin (b. 1945), Slovenian theologian
• Risto Kovačić (1845–1909), Serbian scholar and writer
• Viktor Kovačić (1874–1924), Croatian architect
• William Kovacic, member of the United States Federal Trade Commission
• Zdravko-Ćiro Kovačić (1925–2015), Croatian water polo player

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Surname list

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v t e Surnames associated with the occupation of smith
Celtic	Goff Goffe Gow Gowan Gowans Le Goff Mac a' Ghobhainn MacGavin / McGavin MacGowan / McGowan
Germanic	Brenneis De Smedt De Smet Eisen Eisler Eisner Kleinschmidt Klier Klingbeil Klinkhamer Klinkhammer Nagel Pinkert Schmid Schmidt Schmied Schmieden Schmitt Schmitz Schmitzer Smed Smeets Smet Smets Smidt Smit Smith Smithe Smither Smithers Smithies Smithson Smits Smyth Smythe Szmidt Šmíd
Romance	Fabbri Faber Fabre Fabri Faure Favre Feaver Ferrara Ferrari Ferraris Ferraro Ferré Ferreira Ferrer Ferrero Ferreiro Ferretti Ferreyra Ferrier Ferriero Fieraru Fierarul Herrera Herrero Lefébure Lefebvre Lefèvre
Semitic	Haddad Hadodo Al-Haddad El-Haddad
Slavic	Covaci Coval Covali Covaliov Kavalyow Kovač Kováč Kovach Kovačević Kovačevič Kovačovič Kovačev Kovachev Kovačec Kovačevski Kovačić Kovačič Kovačik Kováčik Kovack Kovács Koval Kovalchuk Kovalenko Kovalevich Kovalevsky Kovalic Kovalik Kovalik Kovalkov Kovals Kovalsky Kovalyov Kovalyuk Kovář Kovařík Kowal Kowalik Kowalczyk Kowalczuk Kowalewicz Kowalewski Kowalski Kuznets Kuznetsov Kuźniar
Other	Armenian: Darbinyan Baltic Kalējs Kalvaitis (Kalwejt, Kallweit, etc.) Kavaliauskas Šmits Finnic Sepp Seppä Seppänen Seppälä Indic: Lohar Kartvelian Mchedlidze Mchedlishvili Turkic Demirci Demircioğlu
From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith'	Funk Funke Vonck Vonk