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Novak

#3,729 in 2025Boys' name

Possibly new, through Novák

Novak has been given to 384 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #3,729 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Novak, 2025

1 in 111,000

Novak over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Novak: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly new, through Novák

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Novak means

Novak belongs to the name family reached through Novak → Novák. Its meaning is “new”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Usually from Czech Novák or Slovak Novák, but possibly also from Serbo-Croatian Nȍvāk, Slovene Novák, or Hungarian Novák.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Novak (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Novak is used in English.

Novak comes through Czech Novák, Slovak Novák, Serbo-Croatian Nȍvāk, Slovene Novák and Hungarian Novák.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Novák.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 384 boys were recorded with the name Novak between 2008 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,578 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,811 in 2020 to #3,729 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,214 in 2015 to #3,729 in 2025.

How common is Novak?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,729
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Novak sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Novak. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Novaks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Novak was born before 2018 — so the typical Novak is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
53.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
384
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 53.9% of all recorded uses (207).

Is Novak rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−151
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,082
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,485
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.67×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.8%
Peak was 2023 (32)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,578
2024

Spellings of Novak

Novak is not the most common spelling — Noah is, with 76.5% against Novak's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Novak is used

Across 1910–2025, Novak was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 943,489 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Novak has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Novak around the world

Where Novak ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2008–2022
    #4,790
    in 2022
  • France
    2006–2025
    #1,708
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Novak by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,729
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,082
Best rank ever
#3,578
2024
Peak year
2023
32 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
384
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Novak

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Novak

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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