# Noa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/noa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 14,249 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,434 / 11,815 (83% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,596, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 235 | 1,052 |
| 2012 | 241 | 1,049 |
| 2013 | 248 | 1,007 |
| 2014 | 289 | 937 |
| 2015 | 370 | 767 |
| 2016 | 392 | 725 |
| 2017 | 392 | 727 |
| 2018 | 450 | 656 |
| 2019 | 539 | 566 |
| 2020 | 664 | 465 |
| 2021 | 1,001 | 329 |
| 2022 | 1,071 | 298 |
| 2023 | 1,046 | 298 |
| 2024 | 1,266 | 253 |
| 2025 | 1,348 | 226 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 83 | 1,766 |
| 2012 | 68 | 2,041 |
| 2013 | 70 | 1,985 |
| 2014 | 63 | 2,172 |
| 2015 | 63 | 2,185 |
| 2016 | 69 | 2,061 |
| 2017 | 52 | 2,476 |
| 2018 | 65 | 2,161 |
| 2019 | 80 | 1,882 |
| 2020 | 61 | 2,254 |
| 2021 | 98 | 1,683 |
| 2022 | 141 | 1,337 |
| 2023 | 151 | 1,279 |
| 2024 | 230 | 981 |
| 2025 | 225 | 1,006 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 1,043 |
| 2012 | 41 | 902 |
| 2013 | 27 | 1,253 |
| 2014 | 55 | 715 |
| 2015 | 66 | 625 |
| 2016 | 78 | 544 |
| 2017 | 69 | 609 |
| 2018 | 105 | 415 |
| 2019 | 97 | 432 |
| 2020 | 90 | 454 |
| 2021 | 179 | 264 |
| 2022 | 194 | 247 |
| 2023 | 205 | 228 |
| 2024 | 197 | 244 |
| 2025 | 205 | 227 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 999 |
| 2012 | 25 | 1,086 |
| 2013 | 32 | 910 |
| 2014 | 26 | 1,061 |
| 2015 | 22 | 1,186 |
| 2016 | 34 | 903 |
| 2017 | 23 | 1,178 |
| 2018 | 36 | 851 |
| 2019 | 30 | 952 |
| 2020 | 27 | 1,019 |
| 2021 | 53 | 676 |
| 2022 | 51 | 670 |
| 2023 | 54 | 651 |
| 2024 | 59 | 638 |
| 2025 | 54 | 668 |

## People named Noa

- Noa Lang, Dutch footballer (born 1999)
- Noa Essengue, French basketball player (born 2006)
- Noa-Lynn van Leuven, Dutch darts player
- Noa Pothoven, Dutch mental health activist and author

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.