Noa
The 2025 national count puts Noa at #226, and it is climbing. Modern by the data's own clock (1970 is its first appearance), at 11,815 bearers so far.
What Noa carries
Noa’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Noa, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Noa since 1970
Noa is at its all-time peak right now: #226 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Noa is most common
Among the states, Noa takes its largest share in Hawaii, 0.33% of the girls' names recorded there in 2025, with Alaska and Connecticut next.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Noa
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Lia
#200 in 2025 · Hebrew
Naomi
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
Elise
#223 in 2025 · Hebrew
Simon
#230 in 2025 · Hebrew
Abel
#231 in 2025 · Hebrew
Zara
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Noah
#2 in 2025 · Hebrew
Judah
#178 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with N · Hebrew names · all names
About Noa
Where does Noa rank right now?
The 2025 national count puts Noa at #226, and it is climbing. The chart above draws the whole run since 1970, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What does Noa mean?
The reference we cite records “rest”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Is there a sibling name for Noa?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Lia, Naomi and Elise, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Noa’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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A printed picture book where Noa earns every letter of their own name, page by page. See the preview pages and hear when it is ready.
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