From Japanese é« ( taka) meaning "tall, high" and æ© ( hashi) meaning "bridge". Takala Finnish. Means " (dweller in the) back", probably denoting someone who lived in a remote area, from Finnish taka. Takeda Japanese. From Japanese æŠ ( take) meaning "military, martial" and ç° ( ta) meaning "field, rice paddy".
Surnames that seem unusual to youâBalog, HorvĂĄth, KovĂĄcs, Nagy; find more at Radixâmight be as common in Hungary as Smiths and Johnsons are here, making surname searches of databases and indexes impractical. To use Hungarian records, you need to know your ancestorsâ original name in the old countryâwhich might have changed multipleFrom Slovak KovĂĄÄ, Slovene KovaÄ, or Serbo-Croatian KĂČvaÄ, all meaning "blacksmith". Proper noun [edit] Kovac (plural Kovacs) A surname from Slovak. Statistics [edit] According to the 2010 United States Census, Kovac is the 11299 th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2795 individuals. Kovac is most common among White The Most Common Surnames. On this page you will find lists of the most common surnames in various regions of the world. Typically the information is compiled by a national statistics agency, though in some cases it comes from another source. The source is noted at the top of each list. Rankings of the most common surnames from around the world. The Nowak surname was also occasionally bestowed on one who converted to Christianity (a new man). Nowak is the most common surname in Poland and is also very common in other Slavic countries, especially the Czech Republic, where NovĂĄk tops the list of most common surnames. Novak is also the most common surname in Slovenia and the sixth most