Surname Saturday – Nowak
Hello,
This my version of Saturday’s daily blogging theme. This week will be focused on the Nowak surname, which is an extremely common surname in Poland (205,536) and throughout the countries that Polish immigrants settled.
Surname Pronunciation Nowak (Polish) – No v ak – listen to it here: Nowak
Surname Pronunciation Nowak (American) – No wack
Surname Meaning: Nowak – “new”
(Source: Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings, Second Edition by William F. Hoffman)
Roots of Surname:
| Surname | Group | Subgroup | Language |
| NOWAK | EUROPEAN_OTHER EASTERN | POLISH | POLISH |
Public Profiler’s World Overview Map of the Nowak Surname:
Top Five Countries: Poland, Germany, Austria, United States, and France.
Top Five Regions: Wielkopolskie, Poland; Swietokrzyskie, Poland; Malopolskie, Poland; Slaskie, Poland; Lubuskie, Poland
Top Ten Cities: Poznan, Lubelskie, Poland; Kraków, Lodzkie, Poland; Warszawa, Mazowieckie, Poland; Lódz, Wielkopolskie, Poland; Sosnowieć, Slaskie, Poland; Wrocław, Lodzkie, Poland; Katowice, Slaskie, Poland; Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland; Czestochowa, Slaskie, Poland
Public Profiler’s Poland Localities Distribution Map of the Nowak Surname:
Public Profiler Worldnames. (2009). Surname Nowak Poland Localities Map. Retrieved November 21, 2009, from http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx?country_code=PL
The region or powiat of Aleksandrów in Kujawsko-Pomorskie is the focus of my research for my Nowak ancestry.
Moikrewni’s Poland Distribution Map of the Nowak Surname:
Moikrewni. (2009). Statystyka: Liczby do nazwiska ‘Nowak’. Retrieved November 21, 2009, from http://www.moikrewni.pl/mapa/kompletny/nowak.html
Public Profiler’s North American Distribution Map of the Nowak Surname:
Public Profiler Worldnames. (2009). Surname Nowak North American Regions Map. Retrieved November 21, 2009, from http://www.publicprofiler.org/worldnames/Default.aspx?country_code=US
Dynastree’s USA Distribution Map of the Nowak Surname:
