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Markovich

Markovich. Attested in United States of America, Spain, Denmark, borne by about 2,891 people in the registers this map holds.

The spellings of Marković

This is the one list the atlas keeps of which spellings are the same name, and what each rests on. Case, spacing, hyphens and apostrophes are not counted as separate spellings, so De Franceschi and Defranceschi are one form. An accent is: a priest's Lereña is not a clerk's Lerena.

Searching for this name? Try every one of: Marković · Markovic · Markovich

The same family

One record, or the family's own tree, writes one person or family both ways.

  • Marković
    what it rests on
    • The spelling the archive's own tree uses for this family (2 rows). the Blažević family archive
  • Markovic
    what it rests on
    • The tree writes it beside the family's other spelling on one row (2 rows). 1812 · the Blažević family archive
  • Markovich this page
    what it rests on
    • The tree writes it beside the family's other spelling on one row (1 rows). the Blažević family archive

The same name, spelt two ways

One systematic substitution — s for z, w for v, ch for h — where BOTH spellings are independently attested surnames. Kosina and Kozina are one man in two clerks' handwriting. Stronger than sounding alike, weaker than somebody having checked.

MarkowichMarkovych

What Wikidata says this name is

Copied from Wikidata, not worked out here. It is crowd-sourced and wrong in places, which is why the item is linked below rather than the claim simply repeated.

  • Russian the language of the name

    Which is not where a family is from. A Polish surname can be borne by people whose forebears never saw Poland, and often is.

  • Read about it on Wikipedia ↗ an article, with its own sources

Q108740434 on Wikidata ↗ — the item every line above came from.

What Wiktionary says this name is

Copied from the surname template on Wiktionary, not worked out here, and not from its etymology prose. Anyone may edit it; the page and the revision it was read at are linked below.

  • No origin given the entry exists and its surname template names nothing the name is from — 52,640 of the 78,628 entries this atlas matched are silent this way, which is the dictionary's gap and not a judgement about the name
  • English recorded as a surname in these languages

    A language here is the language of the NAME, not a country a family came from — the same caveat the Wikidata section carries, and worth repeating rather than assumed read.

Markovich on Wiktionary ↗ — read at revision 87352150. Text from Wiktionary, by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

On the map

  • A country that counted the name
  • Attested by a register, not counted

Where it is borne, and where a record names it. A dot is a country, not a place. It sits at the country's centre because a national register counts a country; nothing here says where in it these people are. A dashed ring is attested by a register but not counted — Denmark publishes which surnames exist and not how many carry each. Sizing those by a number nobody published would invent it. Blank is not absence. This draws the 3 countries where the eleven registers and eight archives behind this atlas attest the name. Most of the world has no surname register this project can read, and the ones that do and will not are listed with the reason.

Where it came from

No place of this name is in the gazetteer, so this map says nothing about where the name came from. Search a surname anywhere else and you will be told an origin — that it is Latin, or Italian, or means «joyful». That is etymology, it is usually unsourced, and it is a different question from the one answered here.

Country by country

Each country below can carry up to three different kinds of evidence, and none of them is the same claim. A register is a head-count — a state counted these people. A record is one document naming the surname on that ground, narrower evidence and often much older. And a volume overlapping these dates is a document from the right place and years — never a document known to name this surname. None of the three ever means the name exists in that country and nowhere else, or that it exists nowhere but here.

United States of America

2,861 Borne — a state counted them — Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2010 Census; Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 2000 Census.

Whose archive to write to

45,421 of 688,143 volumes held for United States of America overlap the 1940s and 1950s — the decades Markovich is attested here. Too many to list, and this atlas does not know whether any one of them names Markovich. The commonest kinds: Probate, land and notarial, Civil registration and vital records, Immigration and emigration, Cemeteries and burials. See everything this atlas holds for United States of America →

Spain

30 Borne — a state counted them — Frecuencia de apellidos, Censos de población (INE).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Markovich in Spain, so it cannot narrow Spain's 45,312 volumes by date — see Spain's own page for all of it.

Denmark

Borne — a state counted them — Navne registreret i Danmark, January 2020 (Danmarks Statistik, republished by Digitaliseringsstyrelsen).

Whose archive to write to

This atlas has no birth-year evidence for Markovich in Denmark, so it cannot narrow Denmark's 23,346 volumes by date — see Denmark's own page for all of it.

Whose archive held that ground, and when

Every surname site can tell you a name is common somewhere. This one also knows which filing system held that ground in which years — and those are the two halves of one question: my people were called this, they were there, so who has the paper, and for which century. A name in Croatia before 1881 may sit in a military series and not a county one; a name in the Netherlands before 1811 has no civil record at all, only a baptism.

This is about the ground, not about your family. A register counting a name in a country says nothing about which village. And these are the pieces of a country this atlas has drawn, which in a large one may be a corner of it — Acadia reaches into Maine and is not a statement about the United States, and Bohemia's ground crosses into Poland. Each region's own page says which ground it covers. Where a country is missing below, nothing covers it yet.

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