Noa — #253 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Noa

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,457 babies named Noa between 1970 and 2024, spanning 55 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Noa currently holds the #253 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,259 babies received it in a single year. Noa is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,206 additional births since 1978.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Noa performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 5,038 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Noa shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,705 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Noa in 46 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Noa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,457 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.