Nou — unisex name

What the Data Says About Nou

The Social Security Administration has registered 352 babies named Nou between 1979 and 2000, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nou currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2000. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 34 babies received it in a single year. Nou is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 56 additional births since 1986.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nou performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 191 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Nou shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 152 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin. In total, SSA state-level files list Nou in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nou 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 352 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.