Popović or Popovich or Popovitch (Russian: Попович, Serbian Cyrillic: Поповић) is a common Montenegrin, Serbian, Croatian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian surname, and sometimes a patronymic meaning son of a priest.
As of 2014, the frequency of the surname Popović was highest in Montenegro (1: 68), followed by Serbia (1: 145), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1: 354), Croatia (1: 690), Slovenia (1: 1,485) and Macedonia (1: 2,066).
The frequency of the surname Popovich was highest in Ukraine (1: 1,530), followed by Moldova (1: 4,735), Belarus (1: 9,762) and Russia (1: 10,762).
Notable people with the surname include:
Aleksandar Popović (disambiguation), multiple people
Aleksandr Sergeyevich Popovich, Russian footballer.
Ana Popović, Serbian blues musician
Andrija Popović, former Montenegrin waterpolo player, Member of Montenegrin Parliament
Alyosha Popovich, a bogatyr (i.e., a medieval Russian knight-errant)
Barbara Popović, Macedonian singer
Bojan Popović, Serbian basketball player
Bojana Popović, Montenegrin handball player
Boris Popovich, a Russian international footballer.
Cvjetko Popović, member of Mlada Bosna
Danijel Popović, Croatian singer of Montenegrin ancestry
Davorin Popović, singer, longtime frontman of Indexi
Derek Popovich, a midfielder currently playing for American USL Second Division side Wilmington Hammerheads.
Dimitrije Popović, Croatian painter of Montenegrin ancestry
Dušan Popović, several people
Evgenije Popović, Montenegrin politician, writer and diplomat
Gregg Popovich, American basketball coach, of Serbian father and Croatian mother
Hristina Popović (born 1982), Serbian actress
Joško Popović, Croatian national football team player
Jovan Sterija Popović, Serbian playwright
Justin Popović, Christian Orthodox theologian
Koča Popović, Serbian communist politician
Krsto Zrnov Popović, Montenegrin captain
Lazar Popović, Serbian football player
Ljuba Popović, Serbian surrealist painter
Marc Popovich, American anesthesiologist, surgical intensivist and Director of Critical Care for Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital and Emory Johns Creek Hospital
Marina Popovich, a Soviet test pilot, Pavel Popovich's wife.
Marko Popović (born 1982), Croatian basketball player
Mark Popovic, Canadian hockey player of Serbian descent
Marko Popović (disambiguation),
Marko Miljanov Popović, Montenegrin writer
Mića Popović, Serbian painter
Milan "Danijel" Popović, Montenegrin singer
Milan Popović (disambiguation), several people
Milentije Popović, Serbian communist politician
Milivoje Popović-Mavid, Serbian actor, Mira Stupica's first husband
Milt Popovich, a former professional American football player for the National Football League.
Miodrag Popović-Deba, Serbian actor
Nebojša Popović, Serbian basketball player, coach and administrator
Oliver Popović, Serbian basketball player and coach
Paul Popovich, a former Major League baseball second baseman|infielder for the Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Pavel Popovich, a Soviet cosmonaut.
Petar Popović (Croatian basketballer), player
Petar Popović (Serbian basketballer)
Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey defenceman of Croatian ancestry
Peter S. Popovich, American lawyer, politician, and judge
Radojica Popović, director and screenwriter
Richard Popovic, American folk musician
Sasha Montenegro, Montenegrin-Mexican actress (born Alexandra Asimović Popović)
Sara Popović, Belgrade based art and portrait photographer also known as Maiko Sakura
Sanja Popović, Croatian national volleyball team player
Sanya Popovic, American academic of Serbian descent
Srđa Popović (activist), Serbian activist of Otpor!.
Srđa Popović (lawyer), Yugoslav and Serbian civil rights lawyer and activist.
Tony Popovic, Australian soccer player of Serbo-Croatian descent
Vasa Popović, screenwriter
Vladimir Popović (disambiguation), multiple people
Yaroslav Popovych, a Ukrainian professional cyclist.
Călin Popovici, a Romanian astronomer.
Constantin Popovici, a Romanian platform diver.
Tiberiu Popoviciu, a Romanian mathematician
V. A. Urechia, a Moldavian, later Romanian historian
Mihai Popovici, an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian politician
Ioan Popovici-Bănățeanul, an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian prose writer and poet
Mihai Popovici, a Moldavian cardiologist
Constantin Popovici, A Moldavian man of letters
Nicolae Popovici, a Moldavian physicist
