American Family Name Origins:
Zivkovich
Frequency: (106)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
Serbian and Croatian (Živković): patronymic from the personal name Živko, from živ ‘alive’ or ‘lively’, equivalent of Latin Vitalis.
GIVEN NAMES: South Slavic 14%. Milos, Radmila, Vladislav; Milorad, Miodrag, Radomir.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
