Novak
Novak is the 1,021st most common surname in the United States, shared by 33,606 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 8,894.
By the numbers
- People
- 33,606
- Rank
- 1,021st
- How common
- 1 in 8,894
- Per 100,000
- 11.2
Where the name comes from
Usually from Czech Novák or Slovak Novák, but possibly also from Serbo-Croatian Nȍvāk, Slovene Novák, or Hungarian Novák.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Novak described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Novak
- Katalin Novák (born 1977)President of Hungary from 2022 to 2024
- Kim Novak (born 1933)American actress
- B. J. Novak (born 1979)American actor
- Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949)Czech composer and pedagogue
- Gabi Novak (1936–2025)Croatian singer
- Jiří Novák (born 1975)Czech tennis player
- Vilmos Aba-Novák (1894–1941)Hungarian artist
- Dezső Novák (1939–2014)Hungarian association footballer, trainer
People named Novak with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Novak
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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.