Nova

Nova is the 10,077th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,050 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 98,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,050
Rank: 10,077th
How common: 1 in 98,000
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Nova described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Hispanic or Latino 75.3%
White, not Hispanic 17.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.5%
Black, not Hispanic 1.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Nova

Heather Nova (born 1968)Bermudian singer-songwriter
Aldo Nova (born 1956)Canadian musician
Debi Nova (born 1980)Costa Rican musician

People named Nova with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Nova

Also a first name

Nova has been given to 59,010 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.