Novah
#1,004 for girls in 2025, 249 births · #4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
Given to girls 87.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2020 · 517 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,469since 2006
Novah 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 | #1,004 | 249 | #4,857 | 20 |
| 2024 | #889 | 303 | #2,835 | 45 |
| 2023 | #706 | 402 | #3,177 | 38 |
| 2022 | #693 | 424 | #2,675 | 49 |
| 2021 | #745 | 382 | #2,588 | 50 |
| 2020 | #569 | 517 | #2,235 | 61 |
| 2019 | #912 | 290 | #2,943 | 41 |
| 2018 | #971 | 272 | #2,325 | 57 |
| 2017 | #1,299 | 181 | #2,951 | 40 |
| 2016 | #1,516 | 149 | #3,441 | 32 |
| 2015 | #1,861 | 110 | #4,080 | 25 |
| 2014 | #2,809 | 61 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #6,110 | 21 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 | #10,808 | 6 |
| 2010 | #8,271 | 14 | — | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | — | |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | — | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Novah! It came in at #13,606, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2006–2007, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
See more about Novah
- 115 spots since 2024 (#889 → #1,004)
- 435 spots since 2020 (#569 → #1,004)
- 857 spots since 2015 (#1,861 → #1,004)
- Biggest jump: 343 spots in 2020 (#912 → #569)
- Biggest drop: 183 spots in 2024 (#706 → #889)
- Debuted 2006
- Peaked 2020 at #569 (517 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 2018–2024
- Highest: 1 in 3,127 girls born in 2020 were named Novah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,455 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 65.6% of all girls named Novah (2,277) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 31 | #9,476 (2008) | #13,606 |
| 2010s | 1,161 | #912 (2019) | #3,354 |
| 2020s | 2,277 | #569 (2020) | #768 |
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.
Novah in 2006
Top girls' names in 2006
More about 2006
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1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 271,601 of them was named Novah, which outranked 32.2% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #12,420Zykiria8
- #12,420Zylah8
- #12,420Zymirah8
- #13,606Novah7
- #13,606Aalaya7
- #13,606Aamirah7
- #13,606Aamna7
- #15,152Aaisha6
- #15,152Aalivia6
- #15,152Aaliyan6
Tied with 1,545 names at #13,606; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 8,571Bethzy#9,452 → #881
- ↑ 1,747Rihanna#2,278 → #531
- ↑ 965Yaretzi#1,803 → #838
- ↑ 921Betsy#1,668 → #747
- ↑ 612Evangeline#1,210 → #598
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.