Novik
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from a village in Belams called Noviki
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nəvɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Novik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Belarus it is the 36th most common surname.
- BYBelarus≈1 in 1.4Kas Новик(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael1 in 11Kas נוביק
- UAUkraine≈1 in 15Kas Новик
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Novik itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 143 (measured from records)
- 1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 named Новик, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Новик in RU Russia, BY Belarus, TW Taiwan, Новік in UA Ukraine and נוביק in IL Israel.
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)
habitational name from a village in Belams called Noviki.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Novik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Новик | 143 |
| TW Taiwan | #688 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Новик | 1 |
| BY Belarus | #36 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 1 | Новик | 32 |
| UA Ukraine | #843 | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Новік | 39 |
| PL Poland | — | 2,815as Nowik | 1 in 14K | 1.4K | Novik | 18 |
| IL Israel | — | 787as נוביק | 1 in 11K | 787 | נוביק | 29 |
| NO Norway | — | 158 | 1 in 35K | 158 | — | 2 |
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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Paul Novickb. 1891USnot in their usual nameAmerican Yiddish newspaper editor
- Evgeny Novikb. 1939BYBelarusian historian
- Nora Novikb. 1941LVLatvian music educator and pianist (1941-2009)
- Mary Novikb. 1945CACanadian writer
- Sigal Novik Reshefb. 1961ILIsraeli sculptor and artist
- Isabella Novikb. 1971USProfessor of mathematics
- Naomi Novikb. 1973USAmerican writer
- Billy Novikb. 1975RURussian musician
- Maryna Novikb. 1984BYBelarusian javelin thrower
- Tatiana Novikb. 1994RUfigure skater
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 28 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 476 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 476 | #6,743 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 375 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 375 | #8,859 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 158 | #10,073 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Novik mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from a village in Belams called Noviki. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Novik?
- A machine transcription gives /nəvɪk/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Novik have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Новик in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Novik most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Novik is densest in Norway — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Novik?
- In Norway, the national register counted 158 people named Novik, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
- How common is Novik compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Novik is the 36th most common surname of 80,255 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/novikThe 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, “Novik” — the 36th most common surname in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.