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Noe

About 23,930 American babies have been named Noe since 1914, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 754th. About 22,000 Noes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Noe boys named Noe

By the numbers

Total US births
23,930
Estimated living today
22,000
Median age today
24
Peak year
2007
Best rank
441st
Rank in 2025
754th
First recorded
1914
Girls / boys
436 / 23,494

How old the living Noes are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 23,930 babies given the name since 1914, about 22,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 7,400 of them are children and 980 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Noes

People named Noe with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Noe is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Noe is most concentrated in Texas (5.3×), California (3.2×), Arizona (2.4×), Nevada (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Noe peaked:

All the names of 2007

Noe elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Noé +3 spellings 54,665 20th
Switzerland boys Noé +3 spellings 4,197 20th
Belgium boys Noé +1 spelling 3,066 39th
Belgium girls Noé +1 spelling 743 104th
Poland boys Noe +1 spelling 337 birth registrations 159th
Italy boys Noe 257
England and Wales boys Noe 162 1,879th
France girls Noé +1 spelling 110 5,905th
Switzerland girls Noë 35 755th
Ireland boys Noe +1 spelling 11 534th
England and Wales girls Noe 3 5,891st

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Noe: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Noé 1,706 0.137% 30th
German boys Switzerland Noe 944 0.076% 103rd
German boys Switzerland Noè 61 0.005% 555th
German girls Switzerland Noë 35 0.003% 564th
German boys Switzerland Noë 26 0.002% 763rd
French boys Switzerland Noé 1,267 0.291% 6th
French boys Switzerland Noe 67 0.015% 74th
French boys Switzerland Noè 6 0.001% 598th
French boys Switzerland Noë 2 0.000% 888th
Italian boys Switzerland Noè 73 0.112% 24th
Italian boys Switzerland Noe 25 0.038% 41st
Italian boys Switzerland Noé 16 0.025% 76th
Romansh boys Switzerland Noe 2 0.054% 20th
Romansh boys Switzerland Noé 1 0.027% 8th
Romansh boys Switzerland Noè 1 0.027% 9th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Noe is most concentrated in Jura, where 0.73% of children were given it – 107 of them.

Noe: rank by region

In 2025, Noe was given 5 times or more in 5 regions of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Noé 54 80
Flanders Noé 154 39
Flanders Noë 531 9
Wallonia Noé 22 86
Brussels Noé 60 16

In 2025, Noe was given 2 times or more in 13 regions of Poland.

Region Spelling Place Children
Dolnośląskie Noe 243 2
Kujawsko-Pomorskie Noe 141 3
Lubelskie Noe 125 3
Łódzkie Noe 183 2
Małopolskie Noe 127 10
Mazowieckie Noe 235 4
Podkarpackie Noe 109 6
Podlaskie Noe 113 3
Pomorskie Noe 139 6
Śląskie Noe 145 7
Warmińsko-Mazurskie Noe 118 3
Wielkopolskie Noe 189 4
Zachodniopomorskie Noe 124 4

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Noe appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (20th), Province of Liège (23rd), Province of Limburg (25th), Province of East Flanders (26th), Province of Walloon Brabant (31st), Province of Namur (39th), Brussels-Capital Region (60th), Province of West Flanders (77th), Province of Antwerp (78th), Province of Flemish Brabant (86th), Province of Limburg (89th), Province of West Flanders (138th) and Province of East Flanders (153rd).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Noe by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 15 455th

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Noe among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Noe +1 spelling 41 60
Finland girls Noe 16 20

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Noe lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 4,405 men called Noe were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Lugo Noe 105 0.664 167
Asturias Noe 277 0.572 205
Pontevedra Noe 223 0.488 226
León Noe 106 0.486 234
Ourense Noe 68 0.464 238
Cuenca Noe 35 0.347 292

Listed in 50 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 2 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

Noe against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.