The Nowack surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 1,033 people carried this name — #24,288 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 285,700 people counted. That is down 9% from 1,129 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Nowack surname
A surname from Polish, Czech, Slovak, or Serbo-Croatian.
Borrowed from Polish Nowak, Czech or Slovak Novák, or Serbo-Croatian Nȍvāk.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Nowack» (German), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 99 people named Nowack.
10 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 24 départements, most often Marne.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
36 people named Nowack live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Aargau.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
Who carried it
People named Nowack,
with a public archive behind them.
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Joseph Nowack 1743– · teacher
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Karl Gabriel Nowack 1807–1883 · biographer
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Otto Nowack 1829–1883 · opera singer
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Wilhelm Nowack 1850–1928 · theologian
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Wilhelm Nowack 1850–1928 · theologian
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Hans Nowack 1866–1918 · painter
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Nowack.
- Novelli 1,092 · U.S. census
- Novello 1,750 · U.S. census
- Novi 179 · U.S. census
- Novis 209 · U.S. census
- Novo 1,091 · U.S. census
- Novoa 4,281 · U.S. census
- Nowacki 1,685 · U.S. census
- Nowaczyk 733 · U.S. census
- Nowak 18,891 · U.S. census
- Nowakowski 3,717 · U.S. census
- Nowe 134 · U.S. census
- Nowicki 6,056 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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