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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| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | — | |
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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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 3,780 of them was named Noa, which outranked 96.4% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 27,941 of them was named Noa, which outranked 84.8% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,122Zacharias66
- #2,122Zade66
- #2,122Zyler66
- #2,147Noa65
- #2,147Aviel65
- #2,147Brennen65
- #2,147Cai65
- #2,167Aayush64
- #2,167Adriano64
- #2,167Alexavier64
Tied with 19 names at #2,147; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.