Tchaikovsky (surname)


Tchaikovsky and its feminine variant Tchaikovskaya is a common transliteration of the Russian language surname Чайковский. The surname itself is a Russian-language variant of the Polish surname Czajkowski, see this page for name origin.
Other transliterations include Tschaikowski Ciajkovskij, Tsjaikovski, Csajkovszkij, Chaikovski, Tjajkovskij, Tsjajkovskij, and Tšaikovski. It has also been rendered as Tchaikovski, Chaikovsky, Chaykovsky, Chaikovskiy, Chaykovskiy and Chaikovskii. Among Slavic languages which use the Latin alphabet, it frequently occurs in its Polish version, Czajkowski, or as Čajkovskij and Čajkovski.
The surname as transliterated into other languages may refer to the following persons. For the original, Polish spelling, see Czajkowski.