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    The surname Kochevar

    A Slovene place surname, carried by 733 people in the United States.

    3 syllables Soundex K216

    Kochevar: #31,554 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer#10,001Dubon Kochevar #31,554, 733 people Kochevar: #31,554 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#100Jimenez Kochevar #31,554, 733 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Kochevar is more common than 80.6% of them.

    Origin

    Slovene origin

    Borrowed from Slovene Kočevar (a habitational name), from the Kočevsko region, in Lower Carniola, which is named after the city of Kočevje, a derivative of hoja (“fir tree”), altered under the influence of the German name of the city, Gottschee.

    Kochevar is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 733 people named Kochevar in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 421,208 Americans. That is up 4.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 699.

    #31,554
    rank among US surnames
    733
    people in 2010
    0.3
    per 100,000 Americans
    +4.9%
    change since 2000 (was #31,339)

    Who is named Kochevar

    Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

    97% of people named Kochevar identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

    • White (not Hispanic) 97%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.5%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.9%
    The Census suppresses very small shares to protect privacy; Black, Multiracial are not shown.

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

    Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

    Variant spellings

    • Hocevar
    • Hochevar
    • Kocevar

    Kochevar has the Soundex code K216, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code K216.

    Questions

    Where does the surname Kochevar come from?
    Borrowed from Slovene Kočevar (a habitational name), from the Kočevsko region, in Lower Carniola, which is named after the city of Kočevje, a derivative of hoja (“fir tree”), altered under the influence of the German name of the city, Gottschee.
    How common is the surname Kochevar?
    733 people in the United States had the surname Kochevar in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 421,208 Americans. It ranked 31,554th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Kochevar?
    In the 2010 Census, 97% of people named Kochevar identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
    What type of surname is Kochevar?
    Kochevar is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Kochevar getting more or less common?
    More common. 699 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 733 in 2010, up 4.9%.
    What are other spellings of Kochevar?
    Hocevar, Hochevar and Kocevar.