Novaes
surname · Latin script
Meaning: dated spelling of Novais
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/novajs/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Novaes is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M
- PTPortugal≈1 in 42K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 177 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
123,022 people
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
dated spelling of Novais
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Novaes counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #177 | 123,022 | 1 in 1.7K | 123K | Novaes | 177 |
| AO Angola | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 112K | — | Novaes | 8 |
| PT Portugal | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Novaes | 33 |
| US United States | — | 143 | 1 in 2.3M | 194 | Novaes | 141 |
| ES Spain | — | 72 | 1 in 695K | 72 | Novaes | 34 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 321K | — | Novaes | 4 |
| BO Bolivia | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 640K | — | Novaes | 5 |
123,022 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Novaes is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
terra nova; new land
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Faustino Xavier de Novaesb. 1820PTPortuguese journalist, editor and poet (1820-1869)
- Manuel Novaisb. 1908BRnot in their usual nameBrazilian doctor and politician, served twelve terms as federal deputy for Bahia
- Carlos Eduardo Novaesb. 1940BRBrazilian writer
- Zelinda Novaesb. 1944BRBrazilian economist, teacher and politician
- Marcello Novaesb. 1962BRBrazilian actor
- André Luis Novaes Mirandab. 1963BRBrazilian military personnel
- Letícia Pinheiro de Novaesb. 1982BRBrazilian composer, singer and actress
- Luís Henrique Novaes Dias Custódiob. 1990BRBrazilian association football player
- Pedro Novaesb. 1996BRBrazilian actor
- Gabriel Novaesb. 1999BRBrazilian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 123K | #240 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 194 | #99,694 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 143 | #120,901 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 72 | #34,643 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 72 | #34,546 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Novaes mean, and where does it come from?
- dated spelling of Novais Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Novaes?
- A machine transcription gives /novajs/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- In which country does Novaes have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 123 thousand people named Novaes, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled novaes.
- Where is Novaes most common?
- Novaes is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Novaes?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 123,022 people named Novaes, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Novaes compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Novaes is the 177th most common surname of 424,864 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Novaes?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/novaesThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Novaes” — the 177th most common surname in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.