Ivanovych

Ivanovych or Ivanovich (Ukrainian: Іванович) is a Ukrainian patronymic surname meaning "Son of Ivan" (-ych -ov Ivan; Ukrainian: -ич -ов Іван).[1] The patryrnomic form is created with the suffix -ovych (Ukrainian: -ович), the Ukrainian equivalent of "-son" or "-sson" ('s son), attached to Ivan (Ukrainian: Іван; lit. John). Ivan is the Ukrainian form of "John", so Ivanovych is equivalent to 'Johnson' or 'Johnsson'. Thus Ivanovych can be translated as "Son of John" or "John's Son". This is one of several ways that "Ivan" can be turned into a surname, with at least thirty-six reported variants including Ivanenko, Ivaniuk, and Ivanchuk.[2]

This article is about Ukrainian. For Russian, see Ivanovich. For Serbo-Croatian, see Ivanović.
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Ivanovych
Іванович
Romanisation
  • Ivanovych
  • Ivanovich
  • Ivanovitch
GenderM
Language(s)Ukrainian
Other gender
MasculineIvanovych
Origin
Language(s)Slavic
Word/nameІван (Ivan)
DerivationSon
MeaningSon of Ivan (John)
Other names
Cognate(s)
  • Johnson
  • Johnsson
Anglicisation(s)
  • Ivanson
  • Ivansson
  • Ivanovick
Derivative(s)
  • Іванов (Ivanov)
  • Іванич (Ivanych)

See also
  • All pages with titles containing Ivanovych
  • Search for "Ivanovych"

References
  1. Roma Franko, Ukrainian for Speakers of English Text: Introductory and Intermediate Levels (1994), p. 103.
  2. John D. Pihach, Ukrainian Genealogy: A Beginner's Guide (2007), p. 35.
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