Prokopovich is a Slavic

patronymic surname A patronymic surname is a surname originated from the given name of the father or a patrilineal ancestor. Different cultures have different ways of producing patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based o ...

derived from the first name

Prokop Prokop may mean either of two Hussite generals, both of whom died in the 1434 battle of Lipan: * Prokop the Great * Prokop the Lesser Other people who bore the name Prokop: * Procopius Procopius of Caesarea (; ''Prokópios ho Kaisareús''; ...

, a variant of the Latin name

Procopius Procopius of Caesarea (; ''Prokópios ho Kaisareús''; ; – 565) was a prominent Late antiquity, late antique Byzantine Greeks, Greek scholar and historian from Caesarea Maritima. Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in Justinian I, Empe ...

. It corresponds to Polish Prokopowicz, Ukrainian

Prokopovych Prokopovych is a Ukrainian-language patronymic surname derived from the Slavic first name Prokop, from Latin name Procopius. It corresponds to Polish Prokopowicz, Belarusian Prakapovich and Russian Prokopovich. "Prokopovych" may also be a patrony ...

, and Belarusian

Prakapovich Pyotar Piatrovich Prakapovich ( ; born 3 November 1942) is a Belarusian construction engineer, politician, statesman and central banker. He was the chairman of the National Bank of the Republic of Belarus from 1998 to 2011. He is a recipient of a ...

. "Prokopovich" may also be a

patronymic A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor. It is the male equivalent of a matronymic. Patronymics are used, b ...

part of a full

East Slavic name East Slavic naming customs are the traditional way of identifying a person's family name, given name, and patronymic name in East Slavic cultures in Russia and some countries formerly part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. They ar ...

, however with a different pronunciation: the surname has the

penultimate accent In linguistics, a paroxytone (, ') is a word with stress on the penultimate syllable, that is, the second-to-last syllable, such as the English word ''potáto''. In English, most words ending in ''-ic'' are paroxytones: ''músic'', ''frántic'', ...

, while the patronymic retains the accent of the first name Prokop, i.e., on the second syllable. The surname Prokopovich may refer to the following notable people: *

Theophan Prokopovich Theophan or Feofan Prokopovich (; ; ) was a Russian Orthodox bishop, theologian, pietist, writer, poet, mathematician, astronomer, pedagogue and philosopher of Ukrainian origin. He was the rector of the Academia Mohileana in Kiev (1711–1716), ...

(1681–1736), Russian archbishop *

Sergei Prokopovich Sergei Nikolaevich Prokopovich (; 1871–1955) was a Russian economist, sociologist, Revisionist Social-Democrat and later a liberal politician. Life Prokopovich was born into a noble family in Tsarskoe Selo in 1871. In the early 1890s he bec ...

(1871–1955), Russian economist, sociologist, and politician

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