Polish: habitational name for someone from places called Nowaki in the voivodeships of Nowy Sącz, Opole, Siedlce, and elsewhere, named with nowy ‘new’.
GIVEN NAMES: Polish 7%. Stanislaw (3), Jacek (2), Tadeusz (2), Bogdan, Casimir, Izabela, Janina, Kazimierz, Pawel, Walenty, Zbigniew.
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