Noe
Noe was given to 341 boys in 2025, #755 among boys’ names; 23,930 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,000 Americans named Noe and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 15 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noe by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Noe mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Noe is “a male given name from Late Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Noe”
Learned borrowing from Latin Nōē, from Ancient Greek Νῶε (Nôe), from Biblical Hebrew נֹחַ (Nōaḥ).
/ˈnɔ.ɛ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Noe?
#755 among boys’ names, 2025
Noe fell from #631 in 2015 to #755 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.22 to 0.20 per 1,000.
646 babies in 2007, the peak
Noe peaked in 2007, when 646 babies were given it (635 boys, #442 among boys’ names). The 355 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 55% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 341 | #755 | 0.20 |
| 2024 | 328 | #771 | 0.19 |
| 2023 | 301 | #816 | 0.18 |
| 2022 | 336 | #756 | 0.19 |
| 2021 | 308 | #796 | 0.18 |
| 2020 | 378 | #680 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 355 | #704 | 0.20 |
| 2018 | 368 | #679 | 0.20 |
| 2017 | 386 | #663 | 0.21 |
| 2016 | 399 | #656 | 0.21 |
Every recorded year (112)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 424 | #631 | 0.22 |
| 2014 | 483 | #578 | 0.25 |
| 2013 | 415 | #608 | 0.22 |
| 2012 | 431 | #592 | 0.23 |
| 2011 | 421 | #594 | 0.22 |
| 2010 | 480 | #535 | 0.25 |
| 2009 | 482 | #548 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 524 | #519 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 635 | #442 | 0.31 |
| 2006 | 598 | #453 | 0.29 |
| 2005 | 619 | #431 | 0.31 |
| 2004 | 591 | #440 | 0.30 |
| 2003 | 534 | #470 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 517 | #464 | 0.27 |
| 2001 | 557 | #436 | 0.29 |
| 2000 | 477 | #489 | 0.24 |
| 1999 | 454 | #488 | 0.24 |
| 1998 | 468 | #473 | 0.24 |
| 1997 | 434 | #491 | 0.23 |
| 1996 | 443 | #485 | 0.23 |
| 1995 | 390 | #517 | 0.20 |
| 1994 | 439 | #485 | 0.23 |
| 1993 | 409 | #505 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 355 | #538 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 411 | #491 | 0.20 |
| 1990 | 341 | #539 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 324 | #536 | 0.16 |
| 1988 | 294 | #533 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 262 | #561 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 280 | #529 | 0.15 |
| 1985 | 263 | #541 | 0.14 |
| 1984 | 269 | #522 | 0.15 |
| 1983 | 217 | #574 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 279 | #508 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 266 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1980 | 286 | #499 | 0.16 |
| 1979 | 259 | #528 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 195 | #599 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 208 | #582 | 0.13 |
| 1976 | 184 | #600 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 183 | #598 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 151 | #658 | 0.10 |
| 1973 | 162 | #621 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 145 | #666 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 143 | #696 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 118 | #762 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 147 | #653 | 0.08 |
| 1968 | 132 | #659 | 0.08 |
| 1967 | 113 | #700 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 102 | #733 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 129 | #655 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 110 | #736 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 120 | #719 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 117 | #712 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 115 | #715 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 117 | #720 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 108 | #736 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 99 | #741 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 101 | #748 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 113 | #696 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 97 | #742 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 70 | #884 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 78 | #817 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 88 | #752 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 90 | #733 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 68 | #828 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 56 | #932 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 63 | #866 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 60 | #903 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 51 | #942 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 49 | #925 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 55 | #857 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,205 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 48 | #965 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 32 | #1,182 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 30 | #1,244 | 0.03 |
| 1939 | 28 | #1,264 | 0.03 |
| 1938 | 40 | #1,023 | 0.04 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,512 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 28 | #1,264 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 40 | #1,015 | 0.04 |
| 1934 | 31 | #1,208 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 29 | #1,245 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 34 | #1,168 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 34 | #1,187 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,361 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 28 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,508 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 21 | #1,733 | 0.02 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,385 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 16 | #2,108 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,092 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,809 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 18 | #1,960 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 15 | #2,194 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,346 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,032 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,882 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,107 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 12 | #2,261 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,153 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Noe a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 23,930 Americans recorded as Noe, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls and 341 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Noe: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noe, and how old are they?
22,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 23,930 Americans ever recorded as Noe. The median Noe alive today is 25 years old; half are between 15 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 33,233 people named Noe (499 women and girls, 32,734 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 20,438 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 132 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,180 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,390 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 5,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 4,970 |
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 Noe born?
The states with the most babies named Noe are California, Texas and Arizona, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 85 | #421 | 2.3× |
| Texas | 83 | #420 | 4.0× |
| Arizona | 20 | #388 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 15 | #622 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #672 | 0.5× |
| New York | 13 | #978 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,324 | 0.5× |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #494 | 0.3× |
| Tennessee | 8 | #824 | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #884 | 0.2× |
Where Noe is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Noe is most over-represented in Texas: since 1914 it was given 4.0 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 Noe with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 558,963 babies since 1880, Noe is the second most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 355 of their 21,225 babies (1.7%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Noe
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 Noe and names like it
- Compare Noe and NoahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNoe peaked in 2007.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Noe since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Noe: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Noe.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Noe alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.