Noham

#8,057 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Noam

Noham has been given to 16 babies in the U.S. since 2024. In 2025 it ranked #8,057 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Noham, 2025

1 in 332,000

Noham over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Noham: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Noam

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Noham means

Noham is a variant of Noam.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Noham → Noam → נועם. The family’s meaning is “pleasantness”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements נועם.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Noam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 16 boys were recorded with the name Noham between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2025; its best national rank was #8,057 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.

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How common is Noham?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,057
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Noham 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Noham. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nohams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Noham was born before 2025 — so the typical Noham is around 0 today.

Median birth year
2025
About 0 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
16
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Noham 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
+3,880
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (10)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,057
2025

Spellings of Noham

Noham is not the most common spelling — Noah is, with 73.5% against Noham's <0.01%.

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.

Noham around the world

Where Noham 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.

  • France
    1975–2025
    #163
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2010–2024
    #3,231
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Noham by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,057
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#8,057
2025
Peak year
2025
10 that year
First recorded
2024
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Noham

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

Sibling names for Noham

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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