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 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 198,484 of them was named Noam, which outranked 43.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #10,129Zully10
- #10,129Zulma10
- #10,129Zurii10
- #10,955Noam9
- #10,955Aabha9
- #10,955Aakriti9
- #10,955Aala9
- #11,931Aailyah8
- #11,931Aaleigha8
- #11,931Aaliyana8
Tied with 975 names at #10,955; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 19,019 of them was named Noam, which outranked 88.9% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,559Elam102
- #1,559Gareth102
- #1,559Zakaria102
- #1,564Noam101
- #1,564Ammon101
- #1,564Athan101
- #1,564Fischer101
- #1,576Brayton100
- #1,576Cartier100
- #1,576Duane100
Tied with 11 names at #1,564; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.