Novi
loc · Latin script
Meaning: A new pupil
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Novi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 1.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 55K
- NLNetherlands1 in 61K
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 197 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 'Novi in ID Indonesia.
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)
A new pupil.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Novi 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | listed | 'Novi | 197 |
| MY Malaysia | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Novi | 17 |
| CN China | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Novi | 4 |
| NL Netherlands | 284 | 1 in 61K | 229 | — | 12 |
| US United States | 231 | 1 in 1.4M | 191 | — | 78 |
| AU Australia | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 398K | 1 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | 37 | 1 in 276K | 37 | — | 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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the id-github-names register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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)
Novi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, oriundo de localidades chamadas Novi; pode vir de novus ou de novem
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In English, village, MI
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Corsican, Ultramontane form of nove
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, masculine plural of novo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latin, inflection of novus:
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)
- Paolo da Novib. 1440ITpolitician
- Cajus Novib. 1878DKDanish painter (1878-1965)
- Charles Novib. 1887ITart director (1887-1966)
- Angelo Novib. 1930ITItalian actor (1930-1997)
- Jacques Novib. 1946FRFrench footballer
- Emiddio Novib. 1946ITItalian journalist and politician
- Enrique Novib. 1947MXMexican actor
- Denise Di Novib. 1956USAmerican film producer and director
- Nathalie Novib. 1963FRFrench illustrator and children's literature author
- Tommaso Novib. 1979ITItalian singer-songwriter
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 39 sources across 23 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Novi mean, and where does it come from?
- A new pupil. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Novi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 179 thousand people named Novi in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled 'Novi.
- How common is the name Novi?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 284 people named Novi, about 1 in 61 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Novi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/noviThe 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, “Novi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.