Kovalchuk (Ukrainian and Russian: Ковальчук), Kavalchuk (Belarusian: Кавальчук), Kowalczuk (Polish), Covalciuc (Romanian), also transliterated as Kowalchuk (in the North American diaspora), is a common East Slavic surname (one of the most popular in Ukraine).^[1] The Kovalchuk name extends back to before 1500 AD in Kievan Rus.^{[citation needed]}

Koval (Коваль) literally translates as forge or blacksmith. The suffix -chuk denoted either a son of, or an apprentice to a blacksmith. It is somewhat similar in commonality to English surname Smith. It is also cognate with very popular Polish surnames Kowalczyk and Kowalski.

In East Slavic languages, the correct pronunciation is ko-vahl-CHOOK. Among Ukrainian Canadians, the pronunciation ko-WAL-chuk is more common.^{[citation needed]}

• Andrey Kovalchuk (born 1959), Russian sculptor
• Andrii Kovalchuk (born 1972), Ukrainian general
• Anna Kovalchuk (born 1977), Russian actress
• Boris Kovalchuk (born 1977), Russian official, son of Yury Kovalchuk
• Ekaterina Kovalchuk (born 1990), Belarusian footballer
• Ilya Kovalchuk (born 1983), Russian ice hockey player
• Kyrylo Kovalchuk (born 1986), Ukrainian footballer
• Mikhail Kovalchuk (born 1946), Russian physicist and politician
• Oleksii Kovalchuk (born 1989), Ukrainian poker player
• Olga Kovalchuk (born 1976), Ukrainian Paralympic sport shooter
• Petro Kovalchuk (born 1984), Ukrainian footballer
• Sergey Petrovich Kovalchuk (born 1973), Belarusian footballer
• Tatiana Kovalchuk (born 1979), Ukrainian tennis player
• Victoria Kovalchuk (1954–2021), Ukrainian artist
• Yury Kovalchuk (born 1951), Russian businessman and financier

• Aksana Kavalchuk (born 1979), Belarusian volleyball player
• Maksim Kavalchuk (born 2000), Belarusian footballer
• Syarhey Kavalchuk (born 1978), Belarusian footballer

• Aleksandra Kowalczuk (born 1996), Polish taekwondo practitioner
• Chris Kowalczuk (born 1985), Canadian football player
• Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk (born 1967), German historian and author
• Jadwiga Kowalczuk (1931–1998), Polish athlete

• Ed Kowalchuk (1926–2003), Canadian politician
• John Russell Kowalchuk (1921–2000), Canadian politician
• Serghei Covalciuc (born 1982), Moldovan-Ukrainian footballer

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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

Surname list

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