Nooh
#7,075 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nooh has been given to 119 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #7,075 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Nooh, 2025
1 in 276,000
Nooh over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Nooh?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,075
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nooh sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nooh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Noohs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nooh was born before 2019 — so the typical Nooh is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 119
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.6% of all recorded uses (59).
Is Nooh 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
- −364
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,459
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +804
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.20×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 92.3%
- Peak was 2024 (13)
- Years since peak
- 1
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.9% average annual change
Spellings of Nooh
Nooh is not the most common spelling — Noah is, with 78.2% against Nooh's 0.02%.
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.
Nooh around the world
Where Nooh 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 & Wales2004–2025#2,952in 2025
- France2020–2020#5,366in 2020
- Canada2014–2024#3,231in 2024
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
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.
Nooh by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nooh
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nooh
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.