The NOWAK surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	18,515	1777	0.007	69
United States (1880 census)	435	10800	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+18080	+9023	+0.006	+60
Other Countries
Australia	550	2941	0.003	34
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for NOWAK by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Michigan	2,223	397	0.022	224
Illinois	2,215	480	0.018	178
New York	2,093	773	0.011	110
Wisconsin	2,079	177	0.039	388
Ohio	1,111	1143	0.010	98
Top States for NOWAK by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Wisconsin	2,079	177	0.039	388
Michigan	2,223	397	0.022	224
Illinois	2,215	480	0.018	178
Connecticut	392	993	0.012	115
New York	2,093	773	0.011	110

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NOWAK live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NOWAK represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NOWAK in Michigan than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NOWAK by picking someone at random in Wisconsin than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NOWAK

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Poland

Language of origin: Polish

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NOWAK surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NOWAK in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	244	1.32
Mixed Race	157	0.85
Asian/Pacific	72	0.39
Black/African American	31	0.17
Native American/Alaskan	31	0.17
White (Caucasian)	17,978	97.1

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NOWAK surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to NOWAK

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOWAK.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.