Novotni families are mainly Croats and they are mostly from Cazma area , less frequently Czechs (from Daruvar ). In the past century, relatively most of Croatian residents bearing this family name were born in Slatina and Bjelovar.
Prevalence
About 170 people with faimily name Novotni live in Croatia today, in 80 households. There were 170 of them in the middle of the past century, and their number remains constant. They are located in the most of Croatian counties, in 22 cities and 22 other places, mostly in Zagreb (25), Slavonski Brod (15), Osijek (<10), Slatina (<10), and in Nova Josava (<10).
In the sources analysed in the project Acta Croatica so far, the name is mentioned over ten times, the first time 1902 in source Hartmann's General List of Apartments in Zagreb.