Nóvak
surname · Latin script
Nóvak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Usually from Czech Novák or Slovak Novák, but possibly also from Serbo-Croatian Nȍvāk, Slovene Novák, or Hungarian Novák. The meaning newcomer, novice is equivalent to the native surname Neumann.
- USUnited States1 in 9.4K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 41K
- SISlovenia1 in 200
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- 1 in 200 (inferred from the name graph)
35,461 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Novak in US United States, FR France, SI Slovenia and 1 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Czech Novákor(measured from records)
- Serbo-CroatianNȍvāk(measured from records)
Usually from Czech Novák or Slovak Novák, but possibly also from Serbo-Croatian Nȍvāk, Slovene Novák, or Hungarian Novák. The meaning newcomer, novice is equivalent to the native surname Neumann
Cited for this meaning 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nóvak counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 35,461 | 1 in 9.4K | 35K | Novak | 155 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 33,870 | 1 in 316 | 34K | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 10,794 | 1 in 392 | 11K | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | #568 | 10,510 | 1 in 200 | 11K | Novak | 19 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,155 | 1 in 41K | 5.2K | Novak | 92 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 4,879 | 1 in 1.1K | 4.9K | — | — |
| FR France | #438 | — | — | 85 | Novak | 169 |
35,461 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nóvak mean, and where does it come from?
- Usually from Czech Novák or Slovak Novák, but possibly also from Serbo-Croatian Nȍvāk, Slovene Novák, or Hungarian Novák. The meaning newcomer, novice is equivalent to the native surname Neumann Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Nóvak have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Nóvak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled novak.
- Where is Nóvak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nóvak is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 200 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nóvak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,461 people named Nóvak in 2010, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Nóvak compared with other names?
- In France, Nóvak is the 438th most common surname of 1,200,812 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%B3vakThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nóvak” — the 438th most common surname in France. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.