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 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 6,254 of them was named Novah, which outranked 94.7% 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 31,862 of them was named Novah, which outranked 83.5% 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).
- #2,300Syre58
- #2,300Tyrion58
- #2,300Wynn58
- #2,325Novah57
- #2,325Aiyden57
- #2,325Antwon57
- #2,325Charbel57
- #2,355Antoni56
- #2,355Caelan56
- #2,355Daemon56
Tied with 29 names at #2,325; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.