Noe
- Gender
- Male
- Meaning
- Rest:Consolation. Form Of Noah.
- Origin
- Spanish
About the Name Noe
Noe is the Spanish form of Noah, the Hebrew name Noach meaning "rest" or "consolation" — a name of extraordinary depth in the Abrahamic traditions, belonging to the patriarch whose story of the flood and the ark runs through the Book of Genesis, the Quran, and countless cultural retellings across millennia. In Spanish-speaking communities, Noe carries all of that weight in a compact, two-syllable form — Nó-e — that feels both ancient and modern. As a given name for boys in the United States it reflects the growing presence of Spanish-language naming traditions in American culture.
Noe first appeared in the US Social Security top-1000 in 2000 and reached its peak of #431 in 2005. It has shown exceptional staying power: still charting in 2024 at #768 with 328 births, accumulating 11,345 total top-1000 births over its twenty-five-year run. The most recent figures — 301 births at #814 in 2023, 335 births at #756 in 2022 — show the name holding its ground rather than fading, a pattern uncommon for names that peaked two decades ago and a sign of the continued vitality of Spanish-influenced naming in the US.
The name's appeal is its elegant brevity and its profound cultural pedigree. Three letters, two syllables, and one of the most resonant stories in Western tradition — Noe carries more history per character than almost any name on the charts. The variant Noelani, which blends the name with Hawaiian lani (heavenly), is the one recorded variant, though the simple Noe form remains the most-used across Spanish-speaking communities.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Noe
US Popularity History (2000–2025)
Annual US births named Noe by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2007 with 635 boys named Noe (boy rank #441 that year).
Where it stands today: in 2025, ranked #755 for boys (341 US births). That's 314 places below its 2007 peak.
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Noe Most Popular?
Average boy-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's boys-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Noe the strongest states are Texas, California, Nevada.
Strongest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas | #386 | 822 |
| 2 | California | #418 | 773 |
| 3 | Nevada | #447 | 36 |
| 4 | Arizona | #502 | 129 |
| 5 | Oregon | #530 | 36 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | #574 | 23 |
| 7 | Maryland | #704 | 42 |
| 8 | Colorado | #707 | 57 |
| 9 | Illinois | #713 | 107 |
| 10 | North Carolina | #740 | 93 |
Weakest boys-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virginia | #964 | 18 |
| 2 | New York | #938 | 41 |
| 3 | Georgia | #901 | 69 |
| 4 | Florida | #895 | 95 |
| 5 | New Jersey | #893 | 20 |
| 6 | Tennessee | #815 | 46 |
| 7 | Indiana | #799 | 29 |
| 8 | Massachusetts | #782 | 16 |
| 9 | Washington | #749 | 61 |
| 10 | North Carolina | #740 | 93 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Noe in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noelani | Mist Of Heaven; Heavenly Girl | Female | Hawaiian |
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Compare Noe to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Noe against today's most popular boys-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).
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