girls:
4k births since 1931
#2730 (52nd percentile)
boys:
488.4k births since 1880
#65 (99th percentile)
overall:
492.4k births since 1880
#134 (98th percentile)
The name Noah is the #134 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 492,434 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #65 (98.6% percentile) for all time with 488,429 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,730 (52.2% percentile) for all time with 4,005 births since 1931.
Noah has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1931 for girls).
The name Noah has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Noah reached its peak popularity in 2013, achieving the 100.0% percentile (ranked #1) with 9,048 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 10,373 births per million (ranked 99.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Noah is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #2 (99.9% percentile) with 10,373 births per million.
For girls, Noah reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 45.2% percentile (ranked #525) with 267 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 267 births per million (ranked 45.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Noah is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #533 (43.8% percentile) with 261 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Noah".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Noah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Noah is pronounced as NOH-uh, which has 2 syllables.
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