Meaning not yet researched.
Novah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 249 in 2025. Its best rank was #569 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #569 in 2020; #1,006 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Novah in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,006 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #569.
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Novah: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 249 girls in 2025. Peak: #569 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 517 (2020).
In 2025, 249 US girls were named Novah, making it the 1,006th most common girls’ name of the year, down 117 places from #889 in 2024. That is 54 fewer than the 303 girls named Novah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #569, reached in 2020. That year also had the most girls given the name: 517. For comparison, it was #1,869 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Novah, making it the 4,995th most common boys’ name of the year, down 2,133 places from #2,862 in 2024. That is 25 fewer than the 45 boys named Novah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,255, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #4,148 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Novah in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 7 babies. In all, 3,983 US babies have been given the name, 87% of them girls and 13% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,540 babies named Novah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,169 US girls were named Novah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 517. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,455 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Novah ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #448 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nova (59,010 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Novayah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Novayah (12).
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 Novah 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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 26 | #448 | — |
| Indiana | 13 | #538 | #840 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #557 | — |
| Maryland | 8 | #639 | — |
| South Carolina | 7 | #673 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #697 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #751 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #788 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #907 | #1,848 |
| Florida | 18 | #907 | — |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,032 | #1,233 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,093 | — |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,108 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,177 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,308 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,324 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,350 | — |
| Texas | 18 | #1,394 | #2,537 |
| New York | 7 | #1,787 | — |
| California | 12 | #1,816 | #2,935 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 249 | #1,006 | 20 | #4,995 |
| 2024 | 303 | #889 | 45 | #2,862 |
| 2023 | 402 | #706 | 38 | #3,209 |
| 2022 | 424 | #696 | 49 | #2,706 |
| 2021 | 382 | #745 | 50 | #2,613 |
| 2020 | 517 | #569 | 61 | #2,255 |
| 2019 | 290 | #914 | 41 | #2,977 |
| 2018 | 272 | #974 | 57 | #2,349 |
| 2017 | 181 | #1,301 | 40 | #2,989 |
| 2016 | 149 | #1,521 | 32 | #3,498 |
| 2015 | 110 | #1,869 | 25 | #4,148 |
| 2014 | 61 | #2,833 | 22 | #4,492 |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,688 | 16 | #5,572 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,286 | 12 | #6,919 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,286 | 6 | #11,867 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,603 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,814 | — | — |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,930 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,742 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,719 | — | — |
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).