Nowakowa

Nowakowa is the name of several villages in Poland. The toponym derives from the Polish surname Nowak, with the suffix -owa forming a possessive or associative placename. As a result, multiple distinct settlements bear the same name, each located in a different local administration.

In Poland, each Nowakowa is a small rural community that is part of a gmina (municipality), within a powiat (county), and in a specific voivodeship. Because the name is common, identifying a particular Nowakowa typically requires reference to its surrounding administrative units, such as the voivodeship or county.

The individual Nowakowas vary in size and history. Many have agrarian origins dating back to medieval or early modern periods and may feature village churches, small village layouts, and local traditions. Like other Polish villages, they have experienced changes due to land reforms, industrialization, and postwar development, while preserving rural land use patterns in the present day.

The existence of several places named Nowakowa makes disambiguation necessary in maps and records, and readers are advised to specify the exact location when seeking information about a particular Nowakowa.

See also Nowak (surname); Nowakowo.