Nowak
The newcomer — the commonest name in Poland.
- Origin
- Polish
- Register
- Polish family
The seat of Nowak
Seat vacantChief
No one leads the Nowak community yet. When the movement opens, you can stand for its leadership, or help elect whoever does.
Current mission
No shared goal set yet. Once Nowak has leadership, it sets the public focus: a restoration, a gathering, a real-world project that helps its own.
The Nowak clan is being rebuilt. Join the waiting list for the movement today, and you help decide who leads it and what it does.
Help rebuild the Nowak clan →What does the Nowak name mean?
'The new one' — from nowy, 'new': the newcomer to a village, the new tenant, the stranger lately arrived. The single most common surname in Poland.
The history of Nowak
Every village had its newcomer — the man lately arrived, the new tenant on the land, the stranger no one could yet place by a father or a farm — and across Poland he was simply Nowak, the new one. So universal a label became a surname in its own right, with cousins across the Slavic world — the Czech Novák, the German-Slavic Nowack.
Explore With Your Ancestors · Beta
Pick any year from 500 to 1945 and any place on earth — the Nowak country, or a shore no Nowak ever reached. The chronicler sets the scene; the deeds are yours.