Noah

What Noah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Noah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Steady in the US: #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2025. About 1 in 84 US boys in the 2025 records Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Noah?

US: Steady: #1 in 2015, #2 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #7 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 20,358 boys got the name (#2 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 84 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 67 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 62 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DC (22.95 per 1,000 boys), RI (21.45 per 1,000 boys), DE (21.38 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Noah is #2 in the US and #2 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 97.8% of US babies named Noah were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Noe341 US · 12 E&W
• Noa225 US · 54 E&W
• Nuh39 US · 55 E&W
• Nouh26 US · 19 E&W
• Knoah20 US
• Nooh12 US · 7 E&W
• Knoa12 US
• Noeh6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Noe

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Noah

Boys

• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Zion#142Editor’s note Up from #227 in 2015 to #142 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 680 US boys in the 2025 records
• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Elisha#788Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Elisha in 2025 were boys
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Simon#230“sixpence coin”^*

For a sister

• Anaiah#853Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1983, with 6 babies
• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Lydia#92“the region of Lydia”^*
• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*
• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Noah’s. Rank is US 2025.