Shvets (alternate spellings Shwets , Schwets , Švets , Švec , Svec , Shwec , Chvets ) is a Ukrainian (Швець Shvets ) and Czech (Švec , Shvets ) occupational surname literally meaning "cobbler" or "shoemaker". In Russian the word means "tailor " (obsolete).
The surname may refer to:
Anton Shvets (born 1993), Ukrainian-born Russian footballer
Fedir Shvets (1882–1940), Ukrainian geologist, public activist and statesman
Oksana Shvets (1955—2022), Ukrainian actress
Yana Shvets (born 1989), Ukrainian singer
Yuri Pavlovich Shvets (1902–1972), Soviet cinematic artist
Yuri Shvets (born 1952), former KGB Major
Mark Švets (born 1976), Estonian international footballer
Jiří Švec (1935—2014), Czech wrestler
Otakar Švec (1892—1955), Czech sculptor
See also
Celtic Germanic
DeSutter /De Sutter, DeZuter, DeZutter, De Zutter
Scheemaeckers , Schoenmaker , Schoenmakers
Schumacher , Schuhmacher , Schuhmann , Schumaker , Schoemaker , Schoeman , Schoomaker , Schuster , Shoemark , Schumann , Shumaker , Shoemaker ,Shuster , Shuman , Shumann ,
Stiefel , Stiefl , Stifel
Romance
Surnames ultimately from Latin "sutor": Suter , Sutter , Souter , Sauter , Sutar, Soutar , Souttar
Sutor
De Soto , DeSoto, de Soto, Desoto
Scarpa , Scarponi , Calzolaro, Callegari , Calligaris , Calegari , Chaucer , Zangari
Cordonnier , Courvoisier , Corvaisier , Le Sueur , Sabaté , Sabater Sabatier
Crispino
Sapateiro , Zapatero
borrowings from Slavic: Ciubotaru , Ciubotariu
Slavic
Chebotar, Chebotaryov (Tschebotarioff), Chebotarenko
Cizmar /Čizmar/Čižmár/Čižman
Łatacz
Sapozhnikov
Shvets , Shevchenko , Shevchuk , Shevtsov , Shautsov, Švec , Ševčík (Sevcik, Shevchik), Szewczyk , Sheuchyk
Šuštar (from Schuster)
Szydło
Kopitar
Other
Germanic
Tayler , Taylor
Schneider , Schnieder , Schnieders
Schröder
Schroeder , Schröter , Schrödter , Schrötter , Schröer , Schrörs , Schreurs , Schrader , Schroder , Schroedter , Schrøder , Schreuder , Schreuders
Snyman
Kleid (קליידל, Yiddish)
Nager , Neher , Stich , Faulstich , Nader , Neder
Romance Slavic
Kravets , Kravtsov/Krawtzoff , Kravchenko , Kravchuk
Krawiec (Yiddish calques: Kravits/Kravitz , Krawetz ), Krawczyk , Krawczak , Krawczuk , Krawczyński (Kravchinsky , Kravchynskyi ),
Krajčí /Krajci, Krajčík , Krajčír /Kraicir, Krejčí , Krejčík , Krejčír
Portnoy /Portnoi, Portnoff , Portnov , Portnow , Portnyagin
Shvets , Shevtsov
Semitic Other