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Noha vs Nohemi

American parents have registered 2,174 Nohemis since 1880, against 550 Nohas. Nohemi is still ahead, with 38 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Noha against Nohemi, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Noha Nohemi

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

Nohemi has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1949 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Noha had 32 and Nohemi had 38.

Side by side

  Noha Nohemi
Total US births 5502,174
Most in one year 3266
Babies in 2025 3238
Estimated living today 5402,100
Median age today 1724
Peak year 20011994
Best rank 6,956th girls2,079th girls
Rank in 2025 9,457th3,832nd
First recorded 19761949
Girls / boys 393 / 1572,174 / 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 Nohemis alive today are over 24; half the Nohas are over 17. That is 7 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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