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Noe vs Noemie

American parents have registered 23,930 Noes since 1880, against 666 Noemies. Noe is still ahead, with 355 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Noe against Noemie, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Noe Noemie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 118 years in which either name was published, Noe for 112 years and Noemie for 6 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Noe Noemie
Total US births 23,930666
Most in one year 64650
Babies in 2025 35547
Estimated living today 22,000610
Median age today 248
Peak year 20072023
Best rank 441st boys3,225th girls
Rank in 2025 754th3,296th
First recorded 19141889
Girls / boys 436 / 23,494666 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Noes alive today are over 24; half the Noemies are over 8. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Noe Noemie
France 54,775 Noé76,320
Belgium 3,809 Noé4,021 Noémie
Switzerland 4,232 Noé1,493 Noémie
England and Wales 165179
Poland 3377 Noémie

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Noe and Noemie.