The name Noa is a modern form of Hebrew Noah, meaning ‘rest’ or ‘repose’. This spelling variant is common in countries like Croatia, Belgium, France, and Spain.
Noa is a female first name. In some cases it's also given to boys.
The name Noa isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Noa ranks 546. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Noa. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Noa.
The name Noa is a modern form of Hebrew Noah, meaning ‘rest’ or ‘repose’. This spelling variant is common in countries like Croatia, Belgium, France, and Spain.
In the U.S.,... this unisex name is primarily used for girls, as an equivalent of the masculine Noah.
Noa is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Noa cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #244 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2022. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Noa, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Noa seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Noa was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
You may not know anyone named Noa, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 37 states are home to women and girls named Noa. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Noa living in one state or another. If your name is Noa and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Florida, which has the most people named Noa relative to the population, you still have to ask 9,076 women and girls their names before you hear Noa as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With only three letters, the name Noa is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.
If your name is Noa and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Noa, you can simply say:
Nut
Orange
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Noa
Noa
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
N
O
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
N
O
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Noa sounds like this:
