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Noam

#1,273 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Pleasantness, through נועם

Noam has been given to 3,146 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #1,273 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 155 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.

Babies named Noam, 2025

1 in 21,400

Noam over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Noam over time

In 2025, Noam went to 5% girls and 95% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Noam: meaning, origin, and history

Pleasantness, through נועם

Hebrew

What Noam means

Noam belongs to the name family reached through Noam → נועם. Its meaning is “pleasantness”.

Origin, language, and formation

Noam is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Noam comes through Hebrew נועם.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include נועם.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Noam is pronounced /ˈnoʊəm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,902 boys were recorded with the name Noam between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 155 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,273 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,597 in 2020 to #1,273 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,437 in 2015 to #1,273 in 2025.

In the United States, 244 girls were recorded with the name Noam between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 14 in 2007; its best national rank was #8,510 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,097 in 2020 to #11,643 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #14,099 in 2015 to #11,643 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Noam?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 21,400
155 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 11,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,273
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
14,826 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Noam sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 14,826 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Noam. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Noams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Noam was born before 2012 — so the typical Noam is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,902
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (996).

Is Noam rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+181
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+324
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+164
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (155)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,273
2025

Spellings of Noam

Noam is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 28.0% against Noam's 0.14%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Noam is used — boys

Across 2016–2025, Noam was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 3,571 boys, against 1 in 11,175 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

128 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 3,571
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 5,263
  3. 3California1 in 10,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 10,000
  5. 5Maryland1 in 10,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 20,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Where Noam is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Noam was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,250,640 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Noam has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Noam around the world

Where Noam ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,897
    in 2025
  • France
    1975–2025
    #95
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #594
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2001
    #581
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Noam

People whose public names include Noam, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Noam in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Noam. Linked forms have their own page here.

Naomi

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Noam by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,273
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 324
Best rank ever
#1,273
2025
Peak year
2025
155 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,902
Count in 2025
155

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,643
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,454
Best rank ever
#8,510
1993
Peak year
2007
14 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
244
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Noam

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Noam

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Noam, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

IlanYasinYakovAkivaKiranAnasShalomFarisDovidEliyahuNikolaAmmar

Sibling names for Noam

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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