Why is there an ic at the end of almost every Serbian's name?

Question

Why is there an ic at the end of almost every Serbian's name?

Answer 1

Like -ski in Russian/Polish, -ić is Serbian and Southeast Slavic. Most Slavic names have endings that are divided by gender, masculine, feminine, or neuter, and then there is the vocative and its occasional frozen endings.

Answer 2

-ić is a diminutive meaning "little."  So names that end in -ević and -ović basically mean "little son of."  It means the same thing as the -son in Johnson: son of John.

Answer 3

yes

for example, peja stojakovic, slobodan milosevic, and that novak guy

Answer 4

Most Serbians have a type of name called a "patrynom", which means their names come from one of their forefathers. Slavs, Russians, Poles and Ukrainians often did the same thing. It's actually a nice thing because it honors your forefathers. Its downfall is that the 200,000 Petrovics in this world don't all descend from the same Petrov. So it makes tracing the family back more than 350 years (when that part of Europe adopted "surnames") that much more difficult.