Noa
#226 for girls in 2025, 1,348 births · #1,005 for boys in 2025, 225 births
Given to girls 82.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 1,348 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 11,815since 1970
Noa 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #226 | 1,348 | #1,005 | 225 |
| 2024 | #253 | 1,266 | #980 | 230 |
| 2023 | #298 | 1,046 | #1,271 | 151 |
| 2022 | #298 | 1,071 | #1,330 | 141 |
| 2021 | #328 | 1,001 | #1,678 | 98 |
| 2020 | #465 | 664 | #2,235 | 61 |
| 2019 | #566 | 539 | #1,868 | 80 |
| 2018 | #655 | 450 | #2,147 | 65 |
| 2017 | #727 | 392 | #2,450 | 52 |
| 2016 | #724 | 392 | #2,047 | 69 |
| 2015 | #763 | 370 | #2,169 | 63 |
| 2014 | #933 | 289 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #1,005 | 248 | #1,964 | 70 |
| 2012 | #1,044 | 241 | #2,036 | 68 |
| 2011 | #1,050 | 235 | #1,755 | 83 |
| 2010 | #1,110 | 222 | #2,187 | 60 |
| 2009 | #1,132 | 223 | #1,910 | 75 |
| 2008 | #1,259 | 199 | #1,679 | 91 |
| 2007 | #1,257 | 196 | #1,861 | 77 |
| 2006 | #1,260 | 190 | #1,669 | 85 |
| 2005 | #1,479 | 142 | #2,061 | 60 |
| 2004 | #1,667 | 116 | #1,953 | 62 |
| 2003 | #1,386 | 144 | #2,312 | 46 |
| 2002 | #1,573 | 118 | #2,019 | 54 |
| 2001 | #1,765 | 101 | #2,050 | 51 |
| 2000 | #1,558 | 114 | #1,629 | 72 |
| 1999 | #1,770 | 90 | #2,300 | 39 |
| 1998 | #1,977 | 76 | #2,711 | 30 |
| 1997 | #2,002 | 71 | #3,738 | 18 |
| 1996 | #1,792 | 82 | #4,185 | 15 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #4,508 | 13 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | — | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | — | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | — | |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #3,966 | 10 |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Noa! It came in at #6,362, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1979, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Noa is popular in 2001
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Massachusetts#573 · 1 in 3,932
- Missouri#683 · 1 in 4,772
- New York#691 · 1 in 4,453
- New Jersey#1,073 · 1 in 8,280
- Illinois#1,246 · 1 in 10,054
Best ever in a state: #39 in Hawaii, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #573 | 8 | 1 in 3,932 |
| Missouri | #683 | 6 | 1 in 4,772 |
| New York | #691 | 22 | 1 in 4,453 |
| New Jersey | #1,073 | 5 | 1 in 8,280 |
| Illinois | #1,246 | 7 | 1 in 10,054 |
| California | #1,447 | 17 | 1 in 13,075 |
| Florida | #1,744 | 5 | 1 in 15,467 |
| Texas | #2,381 | 6 | 1 in 25,536 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Noa
- 27 spots since 2024 (#253 → #226)
- 239 spots since 2020 (#465 → #226)
- 537 spots since 2015 (#763 → #226)
- Biggest jump: 170 spots in 2015 (#933 → #763)
- Biggest drop: 3 spots in 2017 (#724 → #727)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 2025 at #226 (1,348 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 12 yrs · run 2014–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,192 girls born in 2025 were named Noa (0.08%)
- 54.1% of all girls named Noa (6,396) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1991, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 17 | #6,362 (1970) | #8,588 |
| 1980s | 70 | #5,923 (1987) | #8,203 |
| 1990s | 411 | #1,770 (1999) | #4,633 |
| 2000s | 1,543 | #1,132 (2009) | #1,434 |
| 2010s | 3,378 | #566 (2019) | #858 |
| 2020s | 6,396 | #226 (2025) | #311 |
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.
Noa in 2001
Top girls' names in 2001
Top boys' names in 2001
More about 2001
girls
1,800,624 girls got a published name in 2001; 1 in 17,828 of them was named Noa, which outranked 90.2% of the 17,978 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,750Trina102
- #1,750Tristin102
- #1,750Yarely102
- #1,765Noa101
- #1,765Amiah101
- #1,765Aminah101
- #1,765Izabel101
- #1,777Aida100
- #1,777Ariadna100
- #1,777Aubrianna100
Tied with 11 names at #1,765; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 38,096 of them was named Noa, which outranked 83.3% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,027Waleed52
- #2,027Xavion52
- #2,027Yehoshua52
- #2,050Noa51
- #2,050Adarius51
- #2,050Aharon51
- #2,050Alphonso51
- #2,086Alexi50
- #2,086Carey50
- #2,086Cobey50
Tied with 35 names at #2,050; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.