Nohea
Nohea was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,452 among girls’ names; 218 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nohea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nohea mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Nohea is “a male or female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the sense “handsome, pretty” (nohea).
From nohea (“handsome, pretty”).
/noˈhe.a/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nohea?
#14,452 among girls’ names, 2025
Nohea fell from #9,971 in 2015 to #14,452 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.7 per million.
21 babies in 2020, the peak
Nohea peaked in 2020, when 21 babies were given it (15 girls, #7,472 among girls’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,452 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,804 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,126 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,824 | 6 | #11,893 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,896 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,472 | 6 | #11,585 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,273 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,661 | under 5 | |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,171 | 6 | #11,789 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,837 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,971 | under 5 | |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,732 | under 5 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 7 | #10,414 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,243 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,806 | 6 | #12,046 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,682 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,050 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,708 | 6 | #11,645 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,428 | under 5 | |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,856 | under 5 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #11,107 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,457 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nohea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 218 Americans recorded as Nohea, 81% are girls and 19% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nohea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nohea, and how old are they?
An estimated 216 Americans named Nohea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 284 people named Nohea (194 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 159 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 32,163 babies since 1880, Nohea is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,643 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Nohea
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 Nohea and names like it
- Compare Nohea and NonaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNohea peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nohea since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Nohea: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Nohea.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nohea alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.