Meaning not yet researched.
Noa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,348 in 2025. Its best rank was #226 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 86% of babies named Noa in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#226 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Noa: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,348 girls in 2025. Peak: #226 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,348 (2025).
In 2025, 1,348 US girls were named Noa, making it the 226th most common girls’ name of the year, up 27 places from #253 in 2024. That is 82 more than the 1,266 girls named Noa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #226, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,348. For comparison, it was #767 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 225 US boys were named Noa, making it the 1,006th most common boys’ name of the year, down 25 places from #981 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 230 boys named Noa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #981, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 230. For comparison, it was #2,185 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Noa in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 7 babies. In all, 14,249 US babies have been given the name, 83% of them girls and 17% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 7,302 babies named Noa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,169 US girls were named Noa; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,348. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,192 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Noa ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #130 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Noah (534,622 babies since 1880) and Noe (23,930 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nuha and Moa are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Basque, Catalan, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nuha (743), Moa (15).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Noa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 7 | #130 | — |
| New York | 115 | #142 | #314 |
| California | 199 | #154 | #704 |
| Alaska | 5 | #161 | — |
| Colorado | 36 | #163 | — |
| Maryland | 31 | #166 | #559 |
| Connecticut | 19 | #172 | #559 |
| Washington | 42 | #174 | #1,245 |
| New Jersey | 46 | #177 | #575 |
| Florida | 98 | #187 | #514 |
| Massachusetts | 28 | #203 | #392 |
| Nevada | 13 | #209 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | #213 | #777 |
| Oregon | 17 | #216 | #569 |
| Virginia | 38 | #218 | #833 |
| Iowa | 16 | #219 | — |
| Arizona | 31 | #225 | #1,059 |
| Utah | 21 | #230 | — |
| Alabama | 20 | #241 | — |
| Indiana | 30 | #241 | — |
| Maine | 5 | #249 | — |
| Illinois | 42 | #255 | #527 |
| North Carolina | 42 | #264 | #701 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #268 | — |
| South Dakota | 5 | #269 | — |
| Ohio | 40 | #279 | #880 |
| New Mexico | 6 | #286 | — |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #290 | — |
| Missouri | 20 | #306 | — |
| Wisconsin | 18 | #307 | — |
| Tennessee | 25 | #328 | #910 |
| Georgia | 33 | #334 | #1,280 |
| Minnesota | 17 | #338 | #654 |
| Idaho | 7 | #340 | — |
| Kansas | 10 | #352 | — |
| Kentucky | 13 | #358 | — |
| Texas | 97 | #360 | #1,223 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #382 | — |
| South Carolina | 13 | #397 | — |
| Michigan | 20 | #434 | — |
| Mississippi | 6 | #499 | — |
| Arkansas | 6 | #542 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,348 | #226 | 225 | #1,006 |
| 2024 | 1,266 | #253 | 230 | #981 |
| 2023 | 1,046 | #298 | 151 | #1,279 |
| 2022 | 1,071 | #298 | 141 | #1,337 |
| 2021 | 1,001 | #329 | 98 | #1,683 |
| 2020 | 664 | #465 | 61 | #2,254 |
| 2019 | 539 | #566 | 80 | #1,882 |
| 2018 | 450 | #656 | 65 | #2,161 |
| 2017 | 392 | #727 | 52 | #2,476 |
| 2016 | 392 | #725 | 69 | #2,061 |
| 2015 | 370 | #767 | 63 | #2,185 |
| 2014 | 289 | #937 | 63 | #2,172 |
| 2013 | 248 | #1,007 | 70 | #1,985 |
| 2012 | 241 | #1,049 | 68 | #2,041 |
| 2011 | 235 | #1,052 | 83 | #1,766 |
| 2010 | 222 | #1,113 | 60 | #2,202 |
| 2009 | 223 | #1,138 | 75 | #1,921 |
| 2008 | 199 | #1,262 | 91 | #1,687 |
| 2007 | 196 | #1,261 | 77 | #1,872 |
| 2006 | 190 | #1,266 | 85 | #1,678 |
| 2005 | 142 | #1,487 | 60 | #2,074 |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,679 | 62 | #1,970 |
| 2003 | 144 | #1,387 | 46 | #2,340 |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,582 | 54 | #2,038 |
| 2001 | 101 | #1,775 | 51 | #2,079 |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,569 | 72 | #1,635 |
| 1999 | 90 | #1,782 | 39 | #2,330 |
| 1998 | 76 | #1,987 | 30 | #2,763 |
| 1997 | 71 | #2,017 | 18 | #3,841 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,803 | 15 | #4,331 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,949 | 13 | #4,714 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,228 | 8 | #6,802 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,349 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,652 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,120 | 8 | #6,356 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,371 | — | — |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,515 | — | — |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,178 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,215 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,261 | 6 | #6,494 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,988 | 5 | #7,282 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,230 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,700 | 7 | #5,316 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,742 | 10 | #4,146 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,324 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,970 | 6 | #6,022 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,753 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,910 | 5 | #6,489 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,744 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,837 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).