Kocevar Family History

Slovenian (Kočevar): habitational name for someone from the Kočevsko region in Lower Carniola which is named after the city of Kočevje and this one with a derivative of hoja ‘fir tree’ altered under the influence of the German name of the city Gottschee.

From the 14th century until 1941, the year of their collective resettlement in the German Reich, a large part of the region was homeland of Gottscheers, descendants of German-speaking colonists with surnames of mixed German and Slovenian origin.

See also Hocevar compare Kochevar.