Noah

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Noah boys named Noah

By the numbers

Total US births

534,622

Estimated living today

518,000

Median age today

13

Peak year

2024

Best rank

2nd

Rank in 2025

2nd

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

5,020 / 529,602

How old the living Noahs are

born that year still alive today

Of the 534,622 babies given the name since 1880, about 518,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 334,000 of them are children and 2,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2012 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From Biblical Hebrew נֹחַ.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Noahs

• Yuval Noah Harari (born 1976)Israeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers
• Noah Webster (1758–1843)American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author
• Noah Cyrus (born 2000)American singer and actress
• Noah Lyles (born 1997)American sprinter
• Noah Centineo (born 1996)American actor
• Noah Wyle (born 1971)American actor
• Noah Okafor (born 2000)Swiss association football player
• Noah Baumbach (born 1969)American filmmaker

People named Noah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Noah is most common

• CA66,275
• TX48,536
• FL31,021
• NY30,207
• OH21,240
• PA21,036
• IL20,459
• NC18,155
• MI17,322
• GA16,692

Relative to how many babies each state records, Noah is most concentrated in Nevada (2.2×), Florida (1.7×), Hawaii (1.7×), Alaska (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Noah peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• James
• Henry

All the names of 2024

Noah elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Noah: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Noah is most concentrated in Solothurn, where 0.87% of children were given it – 454 of them.

Noah: rank by region

In 2025, Noah was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 10 different years.

In 2024, Noah was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2024, Noah was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy, and first in 1 of them. It has come first somewhere in 3 different years.

In 2025, Noah was given 2 times or more in 12 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Noah appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (1st), Province of Limburg (1st), Province of East Flanders (1st), Province of Flemish Brabant (1st), Province of West Flanders (1st), Province of Namur (3rd), Brussels-Capital Region (4th), Province of Walloon Brabant (6th), Province of Hainaut (6th), Province of Luxembourg (12th) and Province of Liège (13th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Noah by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Noah among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Noah lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 8,520 men called Noah and 2,005 women called Noah were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 45 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 7 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Noa
• Noam
• Noami

Noah against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Noah vs Noa
• Noah vs Noam
• Noah vs Noami

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