Noam
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · #1,267 for boys in 2025, 155 births
Given to boys 92.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 155 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,902since 1961
Noam 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 | #10,917 | 8 | #1,267 | 155 |
| 2024 | — | #1,448 | 125 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,591 | 109 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,771 | 93 | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #1,621 | 104 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #1,592 | 102 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #1,606 | 103 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,576 | 106 |
| 2017 | — | #1,707 | 92 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,563 | 105 | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 | #1,434 | 119 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #1,564 | 101 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #1,492 | 109 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #1,523 | 105 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #1,795 | 80 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #1,881 | 76 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 | #1,638 | 96 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #1,692 | 90 |
| 2007 | #8,520 | 14 | #1,760 | 84 |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | #1,967 | 68 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 | #1,922 | 66 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #2,131 | 55 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #2,206 | 49 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #2,403 | 42 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #2,249 | 45 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 | #3,075 | 28 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #2,722 | 31 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #2,349 | 37 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #2,823 | 27 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #11,783 | 6 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #2,999 | 22 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | — | #2,553 | 26 | |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #2,989 | 20 |
| 1988 | — | #3,079 | 17 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,072 | 16 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,891 | 17 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,710 | 18 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,613 | 18 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,140 | 24 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,108 | 14 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,221 | 13 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,965 | 15 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,897 | 15 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | — | #3,037 | 13 | |
| 1976 | — | #2,601 | 16 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,450 | 17 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,549 | 15 | |
| 1973 | — | #3,694 | 8 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
| 1971 | — | #3,146 | 10 | |
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,986 | 8 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,930 | 5 | |
| 1964 | — | #4,039 | 5 | |
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| 1961 | — | #4,065 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Noam! It came in at #4,065, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1961–1965, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Noam
- 181 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,267)
- 325 spots since 2020 (#1,592 → #1,267)
- 167 spots since 2015 (#1,434 → #1,267)
- Debuted 1961
- Peaked 2025 at #1,267 (155 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,020 boys born in 2025 were named Noam (0.01%)
- 34.3% of all boys named Noam (996) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 42 | #2,986 (1966) | #3,741 |
| 1970s | 123 | #2,450 (1975) | #3,103 |
| 1980s | 172 | #2,140 (1983) | #2,879 |
| 1990s | 258 | #2,349 (1998) | #2,871 |
| 2000s | 623 | #1,638 (2009) | #2,104 |
| 2010s | 996 | #1,434 (2015) | #1,614 |
| 2020s | 688 | #1,267 (2025) | #1,548 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Noam in 1961
Top boys' names in 1961
More about 1961
boys
2,124,195 boys got a published name in 1961; 1 in 424,839 of them was named Noam, which outranked 12.7% of the 4,657 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 592 names at #4,065; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.