Novosad
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from places named Novosady, of which there are several in Belarus and one in Poland (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/nɔwɔsad/(machine-generated) Ukrainian · model-generated · read from новосад
Novosad is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Novosad is also written Новосад in Cyrillic.
- CZCzechia1 in 13K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 15K
- PLPoland1 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). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Novosad 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 196 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,200 named Новосад, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Novosad in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Новосад in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus.
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.
How to pronounce Novosad
- Ukrainian:/nɔwɔsad/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/nobosað/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)habitational name from places named Novosady, of which there are several in Belarus and one in Poland. In some cases it could be a shortened form of Novosadski.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Novosad is found
(measured from records)Novosad 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #602 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Новосад | 44 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Новосад | 115 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,027 | 1 in 37K | 537 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 849 | 1 in 13K | 851 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 755 | 1 in 441K | 801 | Novosad | 196 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 359 | 1 in 15K | 359 | — | 2 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Новосад | 13 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Novosad 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 Czech, a male habitational surname
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Russian, "new garden."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)- Ñāṇasattab. 1908CZnot in their usual nameCzech Esperantist and Theravāda Buddhist monk
- Mike Novosadb. 1983CACanadian ice hockey player
- Hanna Novosadb. 1990UAUkrainian politician
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)27 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Novosad come from?
- habitational name from places named Novosady, of which there are several in Belarus and one in Poland. In some cases it could be a shortened form of Novosadski. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Novosad?
- It depends on the language: in Ukrainian /nɔwɔsad/; in Spanish /nobosað/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Novosad mean?
- Recorded meaning: habitational name from places named Novosady, of which there are several in Belarus and one in Poland.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Novosad?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.2 thousand people named Новосад in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, Poland, Czechia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Novosad most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Novosad is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Novosad?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,027 people named Novosad in 2026, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Novosad compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Novosad is the 602nd most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/novosadThe 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, “Novosad” — the 602nd most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.