Name meaning & stats
Nova
Nova means “new” (Latin origin). 56,185 US babies since 1940, peak 2022.
What it means
“new”
LatinWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2022
56,185 US babies were named Nova between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Nova (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 93% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2022)