Noa
#226 for girls in 2025, 1,348 births · #1,005 for boys in 2025, 225 births
Given to girls 82.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,348 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,815since 1970
Noa over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #226 | 1,348 | #1,005 | 225 |
| 2024 | #253 | 1,266 | #980 | 230 |
| 2023 | #298 | 1,046 | #1,271 | 151 |
| 2022 | #298 | 1,071 | #1,330 | 141 |
| 2021 | #328 | 1,001 | #1,678 | 98 |
| 2020 | #465 | 664 | #2,235 | 61 |
| 2019 | #566 | 539 | #1,868 | 80 |
| 2018 | #655 | 450 | #2,147 | 65 |
| 2017 | #727 | 392 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #724 | 392 | #2,047 | 69 |
| 2015 | #763 | 370 | #2,169 | 63 |
| 2014 | #933 | 289 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #1,005 | 248 | #1,964 | 70 |
| 2012 | #1,044 | 241 | #2,036 | 68 |
| 2011 | #1,050 | 235 | #1,755 | 83 |
| 2010 | #1,110 | 222 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | #1,132 | 223 | #1,910 | 75 |
| 2008 | #1,259 | 199 | #1,679 | 91 |
| 2007 | #1,257 | 196 | #1,861 | 77 |
| 2006 | #1,260 | 190 | #1,669 | 85 |
| 2005 | #1,479 | 142 | #2,061 | 60 |
| 2004 | #1,667 | 116 | #1,953 | 62 |
| 2003 | #1,386 | 144 | #2,312 | 46 |
| 2002 | #1,573 | 118 | #2,019 | 54 |
| 2001 | #1,765 | 101 | #2,050 | 51 |
| 2000 | #1,558 | 114 | #1,629 | 72 |
| 1999 | #1,770 | 90 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #1,977 | 76 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #2,002 | 71 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #1,792 | 82 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | — | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Noa! It came in at #6,362, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Noa
- 27 spots since 2024 (#253 → #226)
- 239 spots since 2020 (#465 → #226)
- 537 spots since 2015 (#763 → #226)
- Biggest jump: 170 spots in 2015 (#933 → #763)
- Biggest drop: 3 spots in 2017 (#724 → #727)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2025 at #226 (1,348 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,192 girls born in 2025 were named Noa (0.08%)
- 54.1% of all girls named Noa (6,396) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1991, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #6,362 (1970) | #8,588 |
| 1980s | 70 | #5,923 (1987) | #8,203 |
| 1990s | 411 | #1,770 (1999) | #4,633 |
| 2000s | 1,543 | #1,132 (2009) | #1,434 |
| 2010s | 3,378 | #566 (2019) | #858 |
| 2020s | 6,396 | #226 (2025) | #311 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Noa in 2000
Top girls' names in 2000
Top boys' names in 2000
More about 2000
girls
1,816,036 girls got a published name in 2000; 1 in 15,930 of them was named Noa, which outranked 91.2% of the 17,660 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,551Nicolle115
- #1,551Sana115
- #1,551Valery115
- #1,558Noa114
- #1,558Alani114
- #1,558Dixie114
- #1,558Emelia114
- #1,571Ayesha113
- #1,571Hanah113
- #1,571Jaycie113
Tied with 12 names at #1,558; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,964,001 boys got a published name in 2000; 1 in 27,278 of them was named Noa, which outranked 86.6% of the 12,119 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 13.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,609Taron73
- #1,609Westin73
- #1,609Yovani73
- #1,629Noa72
- #1,629Creighton72
- #1,629Gauge72
- #1,629Haven72
- #1,641Akash71
- #1,641Amani71
- #1,641Darrel71
Tied with 11 names at #1,629; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.