It is but very rare. It is not pronounced as King-off or like your saying the King of something....More like 'Keen-gove'. It is also used in the Czech Republic.
This surname Zhuravlev, closely related to Zhuravleva, is a Russian surname. The meaning of Zhuravlev is unknown... for now.
No one's really sure. It's eastern European, probably of Ukrainian or Russian origin.
what country did the Stromatt surname originate
The surname Chavarria comes from Spain.
TALWAR is a Pakistani surname.
The most common Russian surname is Ivanov, derived from the given name Ivan, which means "John" in English. It is estimated that over 5 million people in Russia have this surname.
Romanoff is a Russian surname. The Romanoffs were the last Czarist dynasty of the Russian Empire.
Russian, or Slavic.
Ivanov
Ukrainian or Russian, the term was applied as a category of affluent peasants in the later Russian Empire, Soviet Russia, and the early Soviet Union.
This surname Zhuravlev, closely related to Zhuravleva, is a Russian surname. The meaning of Zhuravlev is unknown... for now.
It's neither Russian nor Czech
in Bulgarian or Russian - son of priest
Russia, the tatoo on her wrist is his surname in Russian
Since Ivan is the Russian form of John, Johnson would be Ivanovitch.However, in most situations, someone named Johnson who went to live in Russia would continue to be called Johnson.
I think it's a European Surname, either German/Russian ex; Schnittka-GERMAN Scherzinger-RUSSIAN.
Joseph Stalin or Iosif Vissariónovich Stalin's real surname was Djughashvili, but he changed his surname to Stalin. The Russian word for 'steel' is 'stal', and the adjective from the noun 'stal' is 'stalnoy'. The word 'Stalin' as is does not exist in Russian, but there is a direct connection between 'Stalin' and 'stal' through the same root. Usually Russian surnames have the ending -in, -ov, or -sky.