42.9% live in New York
35.7% live in New Jersey
7.1% live in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Georgia
If you don't like people
called kovalev
you should probably go to
New Hampshire (None live there).
Fun fact: New Jersey
is the state with the most
last name kovalev per capita.
Check out the popularity
of the last name kovalev
for each state in the map below.