Where does “Jovanovic” come from?

Jovanovic is a Serbo-Croatian patronymic surname formed with the suffix -ović, which denotes descent from the given name Jovan.

Ancestry of “Jovanovic”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Serbo-CroatianJovanović—
2Serbo-Croatian-ovićSuffix appended to words to create a masculine...
Every word from Serbo-Croatian -ović →Every word from Serbo-Croatian Jovanović →