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novak Name Meaning and History

  1. Czech and Slovak, Croatian and Serbian, Slovenian, Hungarian (Novák), and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Slavic novy ‘new’, denoting a newcomer to a place. Compare English Newman.
  2. Slovenian: also a topographic name for a peasant who settled on newly cleared land.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of novak Families in the US in 1920
Number of novak families
 475-947
 159-474		 1-158
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 267 - Messages: 688
ThreadAuthorReplies
Frank D. Novak Karin Novak 3
Novak in Columbia County, New York rachelwallace1 2
Looking for father Susan Brown 2
Obit; Anna V. Novak 1927-2OO8 woodsman1953 0
John and George Novak lived in Etna Pittsburgh, Pa. pmoorep 1
longing for family kashanovak 3
Czech Novaks NEllenson 12
Novak family in New Jersey Mike Garland 5
Frank Novak Omaha, NE CherylHeller47 0
Metro, Nowak, Novak, Synoweic masayuki_higuchi 3
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