Novas
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Novas is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Dominican Republic than in any other country. Recorded meaning: feminine plural of novo.
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 2.8K
- ESSpain1 in 19K
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.
- Dominican Republic (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Dominican Republic, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
feminine plural of novo
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Novas 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DO Dominican Republic | #122 | ≈8,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Novas | 45 |
| BR Brazil | — | 5,858 | 1 in 36K | 5.9K | Novas | 74 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,684 | 1 in 19K | 2.7K | Novas | 91 |
| UY Uruguay | #501 | 1,205 | 1 in 2.8K | 1.2K | Novas | 29 |
| AR Argentina | — | 820 | 1 in 55K | 820 | Novas | 51 |
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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
Novas is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, second-person singular present active indicative of novō
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In French, second-person singular past historic of nover
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Rossend Nobas i Ballbéb. 1841ESnot in their usual nameSpanish sculptor (1838-1891)
- Silvino Silvab. 1936ESnot in their usual nameSpanish sculptor (1936-2001)
- José Manuel Otero Novasb. 1940ESSpanish politician and writer
- Francisco de Asís Sesto Novasb. 1943ESSpanish architect, writer and politician
- Himilce Novasb. 1944USCuban writer, historian and activist
- Antoni Jordà i Novasb. 1945ESSpanish politician
- Fernando Novasb. 1960ARArgentine paleontologist
- Tamar Novasb. 1986ESSpanish actor
- Carlos Novas Mateob. 1992DOAustrian basketball player (born 1992)
- Gabriel Veiga Novasb. 2002ESSpanish association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 22 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 5.9K | #1,989 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.7K | #1,898 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.7K | #1,898 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 1.2K | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 820 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Novas mean, and where does it come from?
- feminine plural of novo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Novas have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.9 thousand people named Novas in the Dominican Republic, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled novas.
- How common is the name Novas?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 5,858 people named Novas, about 1 in 36 thousand residents.
- How common is Novas compared with other names?
- In the Dominican Republic, Novas is the 122nd most common surname of 26,844 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Novas” — the 122nd most common surname in Dominican Republic. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.