Kochevar Family History
- Kochevar Name Meaning
- Slovenian (Kocevar): habitational name for someone from the city of Kocevje or from Kocevsko region in south central Slovenia. Czech (Kocvar): metonymic occupational name for a potter, from kocvar ‘big pot’, ‘jar’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,852 Historical Documents with Kochevar on Ancestry
- 4,029 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,626 Census and Voter Lists
- 671 Military Records
- 338 Immigration Records
- 3,188 Member Trees
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Number of Kochevar families
 15 - 27  6 - 14 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from the New York Passengers List
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