Noe
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Hebrew Noah 'long lived'; first attested c1 125 StCh
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male
- Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as male
- Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 50 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/noe/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Noe is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Honduras it is the 31st most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 620(inferred from the name graph)
- MXMexico≈1 in 1K
- HNHonduras≈1 in 1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Noe itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 579 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 619 (inferred from the name graph)
372,421 named Noah, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Noah in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Hebrew Noah 'long lived'; first attested c1 125 StCh
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Noe, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Noe counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #633 | 372,421as Noah | 1 in 893 | 370K | Noah | 579 |
| MX Mexico | #184 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 885 | Noe | 216 |
| NG Nigeria | #747 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Noah | 85 |
| BR Brazil | — | 42,621as Noah | 1 in 5K | 43K | Noe | 75 |
| ES Spain | #765 | 40,682as Noa | 1 in 1.2K | 41K | Noe | 114 |
| SE Sweden | #734 | 16,195as Noah | 1 in 630 | 16K | Noah | 76 |
| DK Denmark | #417 | 12,961as Noah | 1 in 453 | 13K | Noah | 92 |
| HN Honduras | #31 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 1K | — | Noe | 33 |
| SV El Salvador | #136 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | — | Noe | 43 |
| NO Norway | — | 8,130as Noah | 1 in 673 | 28K | Noah | 55 |
| GE Georgia | #412 | 5,669as ნოე | 1 in 705 | 5.7K | Noe | 29 |
| NL Netherlands | #453 | 629 | 1 in 27K | 9.8K | Noah | 102 |
372,421 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Noe is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Archaic spelling of Noah.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, do nome hebraico Noah; o sobrenome se define com fq. Noe.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, männl. Vom., Variante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Tranquilo, calmado
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Norwegian Nynorsk, alternative form of noko (“something”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Noah Websterb. 1758USAmerican lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author (1758-1843)
- Noah Beeryb. 1882USAmerican actor (1882–1946)
- Noah Baumbachb. 1969USAmerican filmmaker (born 1969)
- Noah Wyleb. 1971USAmerican actor (born 1971)
- Yuval Noah Hararib. 1976ILIsraeli historian and author of popular science bestsellers
- Adam Levineb. 1979USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer (born 1979)
- Noah Centineob. 1996USAmerican actor
- Noah Ringerb. 1996USAmerican actor
- Noah Lylesb. 1997USAmerican sprinter
- Noah Jupeb. 2005GBBritish actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)99 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 50 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33K | #1,186 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 10K | #2,143 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 8.8K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 8.7K | #1,868 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.4K | #972 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.1K | #453 |
| MX Mexico | RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset) | — | 885 | #91 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 499 | #1,186 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 341 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 183 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 101 | #8,474 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 88 | #8,367 |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Noe?
- In Spanish /noe/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Noe mean, and where does it come from?
- from Hebrew Noah 'long lived'; first attested c1 125 StCh Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- What are other forms of the name Noe?
- In the etymology graph, Noah is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Noe have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 372 thousand people named Noah, more than in any other country we hold.
- Is Noe a male or female name?
- Noe is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; France (INSEE, 2024): listed as male; Brazil (IBGE, 2022): listed as male; Finland (DVV): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- How common is the name Noe?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 629 people named Noe, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Noe compared with other names?
- In the United States, Noe is the 633rd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/noeThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Noe” — the 633rd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.