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 2023
Top girls' names in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
girls
1,604,582 girls got a published name in 2023; 1 in 3,991 of them was named Novah, which outranked 96.0% of the 17,615 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 45,015 of them was named Novah, which outranked 77.7% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,117Wilfredo39
- #3,117Witten39
- #3,117Zyheir39
- #3,177Novah38
- #3,177Abbott38
- #3,177Abimael38
- #3,177Abir38
- #3,228Adel37
- #3,228Adil37
- #3,228Ahad37
Tied with 50 names at #3,177; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.