Noma
Noma was last recorded in 1972, when 5 babies were given it; 1,895 Americans have been recorded with it between 1886 and 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noma by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Noma?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,182, in 1972; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
66 babies in 1916, the peak
Noma peaked in 1916, when 66 girls were given it, #836 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 5 | #9,182 | 3.3 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,307 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,161 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,551 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,331 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,359 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,056 | 4.0 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,836 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,915 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,110 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 12 | #3,642 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,978 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,859 | 8.2 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,667 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,247 | 11.9 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,171 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,743 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,319 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,108 | 13.0 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,266 | 11.3 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,073 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,648 | 19.9 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,691 | 18.8 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,658 | 9.3 |
| 1942 | 19 | #2,021 | 14.1 |
| 1941 | 25 | #1,595 | 20.7 |
| 1940 | 26 | #1,542 | 22.7 |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,622 | 21.0 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,365 | 27.2 |
| 1937 | 26 | #1,484 | 24.4 |
| 1936 | 39 | #1,145 | 37.5 |
| 1935 | 47 | #1,013 | 44.8 |
| 1934 | 43 | #1,072 | 41.2 |
| 1933 | 50 | #981 | 49.6 |
| 1932 | 42 | #1,110 | 39.4 |
| 1931 | 41 | #1,118 | 38.5 |
| 1930 | 62 | #934 | 55.1 |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,131 | 38.5 |
| 1928 | 48 | #1,093 | 41.6 |
| 1927 | 45 | #1,154 | 37.7 |
| 1926 | 46 | #1,129 | 38.8 |
| 1925 | 47 | #1,134 | 38.6 |
| 1924 | 46 | #1,165 | 36.8 |
| 1923 | 49 | #1,097 | 40.6 |
| 1922 | 36 | #1,332 | 30.0 |
| 1921 | 54 | #1,031 | 43.8 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,099 | 39.2 |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,151 | 37.2 |
| 1918 | 44 | #1,115 | 38.0 |
| 1917 | 50 | #993 | 46.2 |
| 1916 | 66 | #836 | 63.2 |
| 1915 | 56 | #882 | 56.9 |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,020 | 46.0 |
| 1913 | 31 | #975 | 49.6 |
| 1912 | 42 | #778 | 75.3 |
| 1911 | 12 | #1,425 | 28.7 |
| 1910 | 15 | #1,196 | 37.8 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,138 | 40.3 |
| 1908 | 21 | #874 | 62.8 |
| 1907 | 23 | #786 | 72.2 |
| 1906 | 14 | #1,031 | 47.4 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,146 | 41.1 |
| 1904 | 11 | #1,152 | 39.9 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,283 | 34.4 |
| 1902 | 17 | #862 | 64.4 |
| 1901 | 13 | #952 | 54.3 |
| 1900 | 13 | #1,090 | 43.4 |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,079 | 42.9 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,236 | 34.2 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,277 | 33.6 |
| 1895 | 13 | #920 | 55.6 |
| 1894 | 7 | #1,317 | 31.4 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,262 | 32.9 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,602 | 23.5 |
| 1889 | 8 | #1,006 | 44.9 |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,010 | 44.8 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,235 | 34.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Noma a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Noma has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Noma: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noma, and how old are they?
An estimated 366 Americans named Noma and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (19% of everyone recorded); the median is 78 years old and half are between 72 and 86. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 765 people named Noma (745 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 530 born in the U.S. The Census count is 44% above 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).
Where are babies named Noma born?
The states with the most babies named Noma are Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oklahoma and Missouri are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 184 | not ranked | 2.0× |
| Oklahoma | 73 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Missouri | 42 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Arkansas | 22 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Noma is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Noma is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.0 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 girls’ 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 Noma 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 6 names spelled alike, given to 28,461 babies since 1880, Noma is the second most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 580 babies recorded by SSA was a Noma (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Noma
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 Noma and names like it
- Compare Noma and NoemiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sNoma peaked in 1916.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Noma since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Noma.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Noma alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.