Noam — #1447 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Noam

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,747 babies named Noam between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Noam currently holds the #1447 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 125 babies received it in a single year. Noam is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 236 additional births since 1989.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Noam performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 996 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Noam shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 721 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Noam in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Noam 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 2,747 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.