Noe
#7,491 for girls in 2025, 14 births · #754 for boys in 2025, 341 births
Given to boys 98.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2005 · 619 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 23,494since 1914
Noe over time
Rank among boys' names. Noe has never cracked the top 400 here.
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 | #7,491 | 14 | #754 | 341 |
| 2024 | #7,251 | 15 | #769 | 328 |
| 2023 | #9,616 | 10 | #815 | 301 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 | #756 | 336 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #796 | 308 |
| 2020 | #7,969 | 13 | #680 | 378 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #704 | 355 |
| 2018 | #7,100 | 16 | #678 | 368 |
| 2017 | #6,287 | 19 | #662 | 386 |
| 2016 | #7,602 | 15 | #656 | 399 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #630 | 424 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #575 | 483 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #608 | 415 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #592 | 431 |
| 2011 | #9,723 | 11 | #593 | 421 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | #535 | 480 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #548 | 482 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #519 | 524 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #441 | 635 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #452 | 598 |
| 2005 | #8,883 | 12 | #430 | 619 |
| 2004 | #6,489 | 18 | #440 | 591 |
| 2003 | #9,671 | 10 | #469 | 534 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #463 | 517 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #436 | 557 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | #489 | 477 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | #487 | 454 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #473 | 468 |
| 1997 | — | #491 | 434 | |
| 1996 | — | #485 | 443 | |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #517 | 390 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #485 | 439 |
| 1993 | — | #504 | 409 | |
| 1992 | — | #537 | 355 | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #490 | 411 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #539 | 341 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #537 | 324 |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | #533 | 294 |
| 1987 | — | #560 | 262 | |
| 1986 | — | #529 | 280 | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #540 | 263 |
| 1984 | — | #520 | 269 | |
| 1983 | — | #574 | 217 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #508 | 279 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #518 | 266 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #498 | 286 |
| 1979 | — | #526 | 259 | |
| 1978 | — | #598 | 195 | |
| 1977 | — | #579 | 208 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #598 | 184 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #596 | 183 |
| 1974 | — | #655 | 151 | |
| 1973 | — | #620 | 162 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #666 | 145 |
| 1971 | — | #692 | 143 | |
| 1970 | — | #759 | 118 | |
| 1969 | — | #651 | 147 | |
| 1968 | — | #659 | 132 | |
| 1967 | — | #699 | 113 | |
| 1966 | — | #730 | 102 | |
| 1965 | — | #653 | 129 | |
| 1964 | — | #735 | 110 | |
| 1963 | — | #713 | 120 | |
| 1962 | — | #709 | 117 | |
| 1961 | — | #716 | 115 | |
| 1960 | — | #720 | 117 | |
| 1959 | — | #737 | 108 | |
| 1958 | — | #740 | 99 | |
| 1957 | — | #747 | 101 | |
| 1956 | — | #694 | 113 | |
| 1955 | — | #739 | 97 | |
| 1954 | — | #876 | 70 | |
| 1953 | — | #813 | 78 | |
| 1952 | — | #751 | 88 | |
| 1951 | — | #732 | 90 | |
| 1950 | — | #827 | 68 | |
| 1949 | — | #923 | 56 | |
| 1948 | — | #862 | 63 | |
| 1947 | — | #900 | 60 | |
| 1946 | — | #935 | 51 | |
| 1945 | — | #916 | 49 | |
| 1944 | — | #853 | 55 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,187 | 33 | |
| 1942 | — | #958 | 48 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,169 | 32 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,227 | 30 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,238 | 28 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,009 | 40 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,481 | 21 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,243 | 28 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,011 | 40 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,189 | 31 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,230 | 29 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,157 | 34 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,170 | 34 | |
| 1930 | — | #1,330 | 29 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,339 | 28 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,480 | 25 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,692 | 21 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,515 | 24 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,360 | 29 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,043 | 16 | |
| 1923 | — | #2,020 | 16 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,765 | 20 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,904 | 18 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,131 | 15 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,265 | 13 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,882 | 9 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,732 | 9 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,926 | 8 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,184 | 12 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Noe! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1914, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.
Where Noe is popular in 1981
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#218 · 1 in 1,275
- California#296 · 1 in 2,207
- Washington#332 · 1 in 3,529
- Illinois#393 · 1 in 4,232
- Arizona#438 · 1 in 4,634
Best ever in a state: #189 in Nevada, 1993.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #218 | 108 | 1 in 1,275 |
| California | #296 | 91 | 1 in 2,207 |
| Washington | #332 | 9 | 1 in 3,529 |
| Illinois | #393 | 20 | 1 in 4,232 |
| Arizona | #438 | 5 | 1 in 4,634 |
| Florida | #788 | 5 | 1 in 12,590 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Noe
- 15 spots since 2024 (#769 → #754)
- 74 spots since 2020 (#680 → #754)
- 124 spots since 2015 (#630 → #754)
- Biggest jump: 334 spots in 1944 (#1,187 → #853)
- Biggest drop: 229 spots in 1943 (#958 → #1,187)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2005 at #430 (619 births)
- Births halved by 2021, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 83 yrs · run 1944–2025
- Highest: 1 in 3,227 boys born in 2005 were named Noe (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 5,009 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 23.6% of all boys named Noe (5,534) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 57 | #2,184 (1915) | #2,651 |
| 1920s | 212 | #1,339 (1929) | #1,725 |
| 1930s | 314 | #1,009 (1938) | #1,206 |
| 1940s | 477 | #853 (1944) | #993 |
| 1950s | 912 | #694 (1956) | #766 |
| 1960s | 1,202 | #651 (1969) | #699 |
| 1970s | 1,748 | #526 (1979) | #629 |
| 1980s | 2,740 | #498 (1980) | #532 |
| 1990s | 4,144 | #473 (1998) | #501 |
| 2000s | 5,534 | #430 (2005) | #469 |
| 2010s | 4,162 | #535 (2010) | #623 |
| 2020s | 1,992 | #680 (2020) | #762 |
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.
Noe in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 333,612 of them was named Noe, which outranked 14.6% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,787 names at #10,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 6,734 of them was named Noe, which outranked 92.9% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.