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Nuh

#3,113 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Noah

Nuh has been given to 335 babies in the U.S. since 2004. In 2025 it ranked #3,113 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Nuh, 2025

1 in 85,000

Nuh over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nuh: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Noah

Arabic

What Nuh means

Nuh is a form of Noah.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Ultimately from Arabic نُوح (nūḥ), sometimes through other languages.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Nuh (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Nuh is used in English, Malay and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Nuh comes through Arabic نُوح.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Noah.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Malay, Nuh is pronounced [noh].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 335 boys were recorded with the name Nuh between 2004 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,113 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,653 in 2020 to #3,113 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,841 in 2015 to #3,113 in 2025.

How common is Nuh?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 85,000
39 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 43,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,113
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
58,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nuh 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 58,922 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nuh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nuhs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nuh was born before 2019 — so the typical Nuh is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
48.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
335
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (162).

Is Nuh 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
+387
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,540
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,728
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.95×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (39)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
45.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,113
2025

Where Nuh is used

Across 1910–2025, Nuh was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,665,302 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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. Nuh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nuh around the world

Where Nuh 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
    2001–2025
    #658
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • France
    1983–2025
    #3,987
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2014–2024
    #1,281
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2007–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Nuh by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,113
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,540
Best rank ever
#3,113
2025
Peak year
2025
39 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
335
Count in 2025
39

Sibling names for Nuh

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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