Noam
Noam was given to 155 boys in 2025, #1,273 among boys’ names; 3,146 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,080 Americans named Noam and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noam by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Noam mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Noam is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “pleasantness; a male name” (נועם).
From Hebrew נועם (“pleasantness; a male name”).
/ˈnoʊəm/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Noam?
#1,273 among boys’ names, 2025
Noam rose from #1,437 in 2015 to #1,273 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 62.1 to 90.7 per million.
163 babies in 2025, the peak
Noam peaked in 2025, when 163 babies were given it (155 boys, #1,273 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 125 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 155 | #1,273 | 90.7 |
| 2024 | 125 | #1,454 | 72.6 |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,605 | 63.7 |
| 2022 | 93 | #1,778 | 53.3 |
| 2021 | 104 | #1,630 | 59.4 |
| 2020 | 102 | #1,597 | 59.1 |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,611 | 57.4 |
| 2018 | 106 | #1,582 | 58.4 |
| 2017 | 92 | #1,713 | 49.7 |
| 2016 | 105 | #1,573 | 55.3 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 119 | #1,437 | 62.1 |
| 2014 | 101 | #1,573 | 52.6 |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,497 | 57.6 |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,532 | 55.4 |
| 2011 | 80 | #1,804 | 42.1 |
| 2010 | 76 | #1,893 | 39.6 |
| 2009 | 96 | #1,650 | 48.4 |
| 2008 | 90 | #1,703 | 44.1 |
| 2007 | 84 | #1,768 | 40.5 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,986 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 66 | #1,935 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,149 | 27.7 |
| 2003 | 49 | #2,220 | 24.8 |
| 2002 | 42 | #2,414 | 21.6 |
| 2001 | 45 | #2,263 | 23.2 |
| 2000 | 28 | #3,124 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 31 | #2,771 | 16.1 |
| 1998 | 37 | #2,375 | 19.4 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,874 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,805 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 29 | #2,596 | 15.2 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,551 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,768 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,076 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 23 | #2,882 | 11.4 |
| 1990 | 26 | #2,594 | 12.7 |
| 1989 | 20 | #3,053 | 10.0 |
| 1988 | 17 | #3,165 | 8.9 |
| 1987 | 16 | #3,160 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 17 | #2,968 | 9.2 |
| 1985 | 18 | #2,793 | 9.7 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,674 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 24 | #2,191 | 13.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,237 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,356 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 15 | #3,059 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,983 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,028 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 13 | #3,149 | 7.9 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,672 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 17 | #2,508 | 10.9 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,635 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,958 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,806 | 3.7 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,290 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,448 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,246 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,564 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,377 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 8 | #3,166 | 4.5 |
| 1965 | 5 | #4,278 | 2.7 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,451 | 2.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,475 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Noam a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,146 Americans recorded as Noam, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls and 155 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Noam: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noam, and how old are they?
3,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,146 Americans ever recorded as Noam. The median Noam alive today is 14 years old; half are between 7 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,506 people named Noam (220 women and girls, 2,286 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,419 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 8 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 152 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 348 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,470 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Noam born?
The states with the most babies named Noam are California, New York and Florida, with 60% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #857 | 1.0× |
| New York | 23 | #655 | 3.8× |
| Florida | 21 | #747 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 13 | #567 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,229 | 0.2× |
| Maryland | 7 | #675 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,214 | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,430 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,382 | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,209 | 0.1× |
Where Noam is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Noam is most over-represented in New York: since 1961 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Noam with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Noam
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Noam and names like it
- Compare Noam and JawadBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNoam peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Noam since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Noam: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Noam.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Noam alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.