The surname Novy
A surname, carried by 1,351 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex N100
Origin
A surname.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,351 people named Novy in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 228,531 Americans. That is down 2.9% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,392.
#19,885
rank among US surnames
1,351
people in 2010
0.5
per 100,000 Americans
-2.9%
change since 2000 (was #18,354)
| Rank | Surname | People | 1 in |
|---|---|---|---|
| #19,878 | Jacobowitz | 1,352 | 228,362 |
| #19,885 | Farabaugh | 1,351 | 228,531 |
Who is named Novy
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
94% of people named Novy identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as two or more races and 1.6% as Black (not Hispanic).
- White (not Hispanic) 94%
- Two or more races 1.7%
- Black (not Hispanic) 1.6%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling
Novy has the Soundex code N100, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code N100.
Questions
- How common is the surname Novy?
- 1,351 people in the United States had the surname Novy in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 228,531 Americans. It ranked 19,885th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Novy?
- In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Novy identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as two or more races.
- Is the surname Novy getting more or less common?
- Less common. 1,392 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,351 in 2010, down 2.9%.