Novic
surname · Latin script
Meaning: novak
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɑvɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Novic is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 27K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 29K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 37K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 80 (measured from records)
- 1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)
≈190 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
novak
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Novic 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Novic | 2 |
| HR Croatia | — | 154 | 1 in 27K | 154 | — | — |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Novic | 3 |
| US United States | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 4.1M | listed | Novic | 80 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 160K | — | Novic | 13 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 500K | — | Novic | 1 |
| UM U.S. Outlying Islands | #580 | — | — | — | Novic | 1 |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Novic is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, novice (new member of a religious order)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Novic mean, and where does it come from?
- novak Recorded by Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74).
- How do you pronounce Novic?
- A machine transcription gives /nɑvɪk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Novic have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 189 people named Novic in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled novic.
- Where is Novic most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Novic is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 27 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Novic?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 154 people named Novic in 2021, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Novic compared with other names?
- In U.S. Outlying Islands, Novic is the 580th most common surname of 1,580 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Novic?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/novicThe 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, “Novic” — the 580th most common surname in U.S. Outlying Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.