Noam
The boy's name Noam has been in the national records since 1961, with 3,146 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,267th. About 3,100 Noams are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 13.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Noam boys named Noam
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,146
- Estimated living today
- 3,100
- Median age today
- 13
- Peak year
- 2025
- Best rank
- 1,267th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,267th
- First recorded
- 1961
- Girls / boys
- 244 / 2,902
How old the living Noams are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,146 babies given the name since 1961, about 3,100 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 2,000 of them are children and 0 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 Hebrew נועם (“pleasantness; a male name”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Noams
- Noam Chomsky (born 1928)American linguist and activist
- Noam Bettan (born 1998)Israeli singer-songwriter
- Noam Elkies (born 1966)American mathematician
- Noam Dar (born 1993)Israeli-Scottish professional wrestler
- Noam Sheriff (1935–2018)Israeli composer
- Noam Okun (born 1978)Israeli tennis player
- Noam Murro (born 1961)Israeli film director
People named Noam with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Noam is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Noam is most concentrated in New York (5.7×), New Jersey (2.8×), Florida (2.6×), California (2.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2025
The most popular boys’ names the year Noam peaked:
Noam elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Noam +4 spellings | 20,670 | 67th |
| Belgium boys | Noam | 1,520 | 108th |
| Switzerland boys | Noam | 967 | 159th |
| England and Wales boys | Noam | 224 | 1,610th |
| France girls | Noam | 140 | 2,180th |
| Poland boys | Noam | 76 birth registrations | 292nd |
| Poland girls | Noam | 9 birth registrations | 460th |
| England and Wales girls | Noam | 6 | 5,785th |
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.
Noam: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Noam | 375 | 0.030% | 220th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Noam | 583 | 0.134% | 51st |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Noam | 9 | 0.014% | 138th |
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, Noam is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.16% of children were given it – 59 of them.
Noam: rank by region
In 2025, Noam was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Noam | 409 | 14 |
| Wallonia | Noam | 101 | 29 |
| Brussels | Noam | 153 | 8 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Noam appears in the lists for Province of Walloon Brabant (48th), Province of Hainaut (90th), Province of Liège (106th), Brussels-Capital Region (153rd) and Province of Flemish Brabant (155th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.
Noam by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 60 | 223rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Noam 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Noam | 59 | 77 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Noam lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 251 men called Noam 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | Noam | 76 | 0.026 | 1,894 |
| Girona | Noam | 9 | 0.022 | 2,299 |
| Balears, Illes | Noam | 13 | 0.021 | 2,520 |
| Zaragoza | Noam | 10 | 0.020 | 2,289 |
| Málaga | Noam | 15 | 0.017 | 2,530 |
| Palmas, Las | Noam | 8 | 0.014 | 4,518 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 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
Noam against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.