Nuh is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Noah, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Nuh: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 39 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,114 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Nuh in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,114 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Nuh: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 39 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,114 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 39 (2025).
In 2025, 39 US boys were named Nuh, making it the 3,114th most common boys’ name of the year, up 388 places from #3,502 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 33 boys named Nuh in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,114, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 39. For comparison, it was #4,843 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nuh in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2004 with 5 babies. In all, 335 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 162 babies named Nuh.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 225 US boys were named Nuh; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,797 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Noah (534,622 babies since 1880), Noe (23,930 babies since 1880) and Noa (14,249 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Nuh in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 39 | #3,114 |
| 2024 | — | — | 33 | #3,502 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,196 |
| 2022 | — | — | 31 | #3,668 |
| 2021 | — | — | 19 | #5,066 |
| 2020 | — | — | 21 | #4,657 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #7,060 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,481 |
| 2017 | — | — | 16 | #5,713 |
| 2016 | — | — | 18 | #5,265 |
| 2015 | — | — | 20 | #4,843 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,949 |
| 2013 | — | — | 7 | #10,424 |
| 2012 | — | — | 9 | #8,676 |
| 2011 | — | — | 13 | #6,485 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,664 |
| 2009 | — | — | 5 | #13,922 |
| 2008 | — | — | 7 | #10,710 |
| 2007 | — | — | 8 | #9,514 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,874 |
| 2004 | — | — | 5 | #12,688 |
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).