Noah

5,059 people in the United States were counted with the surname Noah in the 2020 census, making it the 6,459th most common in the country. That is about one person in 59,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,059
Rank: 6,459th
How common: 1 in 59,100
Per 100,000: 1.7

Where the name comes from

From Biblical Hebrew נֹחַ.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Noah described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 76.2%
Black, not Hispanic 8.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.3%

Notable people called Noah

Yannick Noah (born 1960)French tennis player and pop singer
Trevor Noah (born 1984)South African comedian and television host
Joakim Noah (born 1985)American–French basketball player
Zacharie Noah (1937–2017)Cameroonian footballer
Mordecai Manuel Noah (1785–1851)American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian

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

Also a first name

Noah has been given to 534,622 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2024. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.