Koval

Koval (Ukrainian: Коваль) is a Ukrainian language surname. The word means "blacksmith", making "Koval" the equivalent of "Smith" in the English-speaking world.

The surname Koval may refer to:

People

Andriy Koval (born 1983), Ukrainian football player
George Koval (1913-2006), Soviet spy
Maksym Koval (born 1992), Ukrainian football goalkeeper
Peter Kovál, professional photographer
Ramona Koval (born 1954), Australian reporter
Vitali Koval (born 1980), Belarusian ice hockey goaltender
Yuriy Koval (born 1958), Ukrainian football coach, Director of Sport for the club Zorya Luhansk, and former player
Yury Koval (1938-1995), Russian author

Fictional characters

Funky Koval

Companies

Koval Distillery, a craft distillery located in Chicago, Illinois

Surnames associated with the occupation of smith

Armenian	Darbinyan

Celtic	Cowell Goff Gow Gowan Mac a' Ghobhainn MacGavin / McGavin MacGowan / McGowan

Germanic	De Smet Schmid Schmidt Schmied Schmieden Schmitt Schmitz Schmitzer Smeets Smet Smets Smit Smith Smithe Smither Smithers Smithies Smithson Smits Smyth Smythe Szmidt

Indic	Lohar

Kartvelian	Mchedlidze Mchedlishvili

Romance	Fabbri Faber Fabre Fabri Faure Favre Feaver Ferrara Ferrari Ferraris Ferraro Ferrara Ferré Ferreira Ferrer Ferrero Ferreiro Ferretti Ferrier Fieraru Fierarul Herrera Herrero Lefébure Lefebvre Lefèvre

Semitic	Haddad Hadodo Al-Haddad El-Haddad

Slavic	Covaci Kavalyow Kovač Kovačev Kovačević Kovachev Kovačić Kovács Koval Kovalchuk (Kowalczuk) Kovalenko Kovalevich (Kowalewicz) Kovalevsky Kovalic Kovalik Kovalyuk Kovals Kovalyov Kovář Kovařík Kowal, Kowalczyk, Kowalewski, Kowalik, Kowalski Kuznets Kuznetsov

Turkic	Demirci Demircioğlu

Uralic	Sepp Seppä Seppänen Seppälä

From "spark" rel. to occ. 'smith'	Funke Vonck Vonk

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