Nowicki
Nowicki is a Polish family name. The meaning of the name is not clear: on the one hand it is the Polish form of the Slavic family name Nowak , but it can also indicate that the bearer of the name comes from a place called Nowica or Nowice. An explicitly Jewish name tradition can be found in the former Galicia .
Nowicki is the family name of the following people:
- Bartosz Nowicki (* 1984), Polish athlete
- Douglas R. Nowicki (* 1945), American Benedictine and Archabbot
- Edmund Nowicki (1900–1971), Polish coadjutor and Roman Catholic bishop of Danzig
- Jan Nowicki (* 1939), Polish actor
- Jan Ewangelista Nowicki (1894–1973), Polish Roman Catholic Bishop of Lemberg
- Józef Nowicki (1766-1830), Polish general
- Leo J. Nowicki (1904–1990), American politician
- Maciej Nowicki (* 1941), Polish politician and ecologist
- Maksymilian Siła-Nowicki (1826–1890), Polish entomologist
- Marek Nowicki (* 1935), Polish film director
- Marek Antoni Nowicki (* 1953), Polish lawyer, diplomat and human rights activist
- Matthew Nowicki (actually Maciej Nowicki ; 1910–1950), Polish-American architect
- Mieczysław Nowicki (* 1951), Polish cyclist
- Stanislaw Nowicki (1870–1948), printer, trade unionist, member of the Polish Sejm and member of the German Reichstag
- Tadeusz Nowicki (tennis player) (born 1946), Polish tennis player
- Tadeusz Nowicki (entrepreneur) (* 1958), Polish entrepreneur
- Tom Nowicki , American actor
- Wojciech Nowicki (writer) (* 1968), Polish writer, curator and gastronomy critic
- Wojciech Nowicki (* 1989), Polish athlete
In other languages
The family name Nowicki comes in many variations and different spelling variants. The surname is particularly common in Eastern Europe .
| language | Masculine form | Feminine form |
|---|---|---|
| German | Nowitzki, Nowitski | - |
| Latvian | Novickis | Novicka |
| Lithuanian | Nawickas | Navickytė |
| Polish | Nowicki | Nowicka |
| Russian | Новицкий
(Nowitsky) |
Новицкая
(Novitskaya) |
| Romanian | Noviţki | - |
| Slovak | Novitzky | Novitzka |
| Czech | Novický | Novická |
| Ukrainian | Новицький
(Novitsky) |
Новицька
(Nowitska) |
| Hungarian | Noviczky | Noviczkyné |
| Belarusian | Навіцкі
(Nawitski) |
Навіцкая
(Navitskaya) |
Well-known carriers of a modified form of the surname Nowicki are:
- Evgeny Fjodorowitsch Novitski (Russian: Евгений Фёдорович Новицкий) (1867–1931), Lieutenant General in the Russian Empire
- Alfons Novickis (1906–1931), Latvian national soccer player
- Dirk Nowitzki (* 1978), German basketball player
- Helga Nowitzki , German national basketball player
- Louise Nowitzki (* 1981), German actress
- Silke Nowitzki (* 1974), German national basketball player
- Oleg Wiktorowitsch Novizki (Russian: Олег Викторович Новицкий) (* 1971), Russian spaceman
- Henads Nawizki (Belarusian: Генадзь Навіцкі) (* 1949), Belarusian politician
- Wladimir Osipovich Nawizki (Belarusian: Уладзімер Восіпавіч Навіцкі) (* 1939), Belarusian historian
- Vladimir Nawizki (Belarusian: Уладзімер Навіцкі) (* 1954), Belarusian sports journalist and news anchor
- Petr Novický (* 1948), Czech basketball player
- Valdemaras Novickis (* 1956), Lithuanian handball coach
- Valdas Novickis (* 1986), Lithuanian handball player
- Jeff Novitzky (* 1967), American doping investigator
See also:
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nowicki Name Meaning & Nowicki Family History at Ancestry.com. Retrieved August 4, 2017 .
- ↑ Patrick Hanks: Dictionary of American Family Names . Ed .: Oxford University. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-508137-4 , pp. 682 : "Polish and jewish variant of Nowak - newcomer"
- ^ Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer, Eva H. Guggenheimer: Jewish Family Names and Their Origins: An Etymological Dictionary . Ktav Publishing House, Inc., United States of America 1992, ISBN 0-88125-297-2 , pp. 554 .
- ↑ Last names in Dictionary of Jewish Last Names from Galicia. Avotaynu, Inc., accessed December 5, 2019 .