Noah


Gender:
Origin: Hebrew
303 famous people named Noah found on Wikipedia.
393382 male, 2118 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 2nd in year 2018
Best ranking: 1st in year 2016
Used in: Biblical, English

Meanings

A male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “rest.”.

Noah is a given name and surname most likely derived from the Biblical figure Noah (נוֹחַ) in Hebrew. It is most likely of Babylonian and Assyrian origin from the word "nukhu" meaning repose or rest, which is possible in view of the Sumerian/Babylonian source of the flood story. Another explanation says that it is derived from the Hebrew root meaning "to comfort" (nahum) with the final consonant dropped.

Masc. proper name, from Hebrew Noah, literally "rest." Phrase Noah's ark attested from 1610s. The adjective Noachian, in reference to the flood legend, is from 1670s.

Rest, comfort.

Famous People: 303 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Trevor Noah 1984 South African actor
2 Noah Cyrus 2000 American child actress
3 Joakim Noah 1985 American–French basketball player
4 Noah Syndergaard 1992 American baseball player
5 Noah Wyle 1971 American film, television, and theatre actor
6 Noah Taylor 1969 English-born Australian actor and musician
7 Noah Baumbach 1969 Film director
8 Noah Emmerich 1965 American actor
9 Noah Gray-Cabey 1995 American child television actor, musician
10 Noah Centineo 1996 American actor
11 Noah Galvin 1994 American actor
12 Noah Hathaway 1971 Child actor
13 Noah Hawley 1967 American Television producer, Television writer
14 Noah Munck 1996 American actor
15 Noah Bean 1978 American actor
16 Yannick Noah 1960 French tennis player and pop singer
17 Noah in Islam
18 Noah Webster 1758 Lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, writer, editor and author
19 Noah Schnapp 2004
20 Noah Ringer 1996 Actor
21 Noah Fleiss 1984 Actor
22 Noah Galloway 1981 American athletics competitor
23 Noah Bennet Fictional character on the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes
24 Timothy Noah 1958 Columnist, senior writer for Slate Magazine
25 Noah Vonleh 1995 American basketball player
26 Noah Dietrich 1889 American business executive and associate of Howard R. Hughes
27 Noah Segan 1983 American actor
28 Noah Danby 1974 Canadian actor
29 Noah Huntley 1974 British actor
30 Noah Spence 1994
31 Noah Mills 1983 Canadian model and actor
32 Noah Beery, Jr. 1913 American actor
33 Noah Reid 1987 Canadian actor
34 Noah Hanifin 1997 American ice hockey player
35 Noah Newman 1990
36 Noah Gundersen 1989 American musician
37 Noah Feldman 1970 American academic, educator, political writer
38 Peter Noah American television writer and producer
39 Noah Crawford 1994 El es lo maximo
40 Noah Oppenheim American television producer
41 Noah Lomax 2001 American actor
42 Noah Bernardo 1974 American musician
43 Noah Levine 1971 American Buddhist teacher
44 Noah Watts 1983 American actor
45 Noah Kagan 1982 American businessman
46 Noah Ngeny 1978 Kenyan middle-distance runner
47 Zacharie Noah 1937 Cameroonian footballer
48 Marie-Claire Noah 1937
49 Noah Beery, Sr. 1882 American actor
50 Noah Glass American businessman
51 Noah Bastian 1979 American actor
52 Noah Cappe 1977
53 Noah Z. Jones 1975 Animator
54 Noah Drake
55 Noah Georgeson 1975 American musician
56 Noah Lawson
57 Noah Mamet 1969 United States Ambassador to Argentina
58 Noah Marullo 1999 British actor
59 Noah Juulsen 1997 Canadian ice hockey player
60 Noah Purifoy 1917 American artist
61 Noah Lowry 1980 American baseball pitcher
62 Noah Haynes Swayne 1804 American politician
63 Noah S. Sweat 1922 American judge, law professor, and state representative
64 Rahah Noah 1933 Wife of Malaysian Prime Minister
65 Noah Richler Canadian writer
66 Noah Lyles 1997 American athletics competitor
67 Noah Tepperberg 1975 American businessman
68 Mordecai Manuel Noah 1785 American playwright, diplomat, journalist, and utopian
69 Noah Stewart 1978 American opera singer
70 Noah Sow 1974 German actress and radio host
71 Noah Adams American radio journalist
72 Noah Lewis 1895 American jug band and country blues musician
73 Noah Buschel 1978 American film director
74 Noah Brown
75 Noah Saavedra 1991
76 Suhaila Noah 1931 Wife of the Prime Minister of Malaysia
77 Noah Keen 1920 American actor
78 Noah Brooks 1830 American journalist
79 Noah Sonko Sundberg 1996 Footballer
80 Tim Noah 1951 American musician
81 Noah Charney 1979 American writer
82 Noah Porter 1811 American academic
83 Noah Landis American musician
84 Noah Gragson 1998
85 Noah Joel Sarenren Bazee 1996 German footballer of Nigerian descent
86 Noah Mayer Fictional human
87 Noah Bennett
88 Noah Dahlman 1989 American basketball player
89 Noah Hutchings 1922 American radio personality
90 Noah G. Willis 1940
91 Noah Welch 1982 American ice hockey player
92 Noah Weinberg 1930 American rabbi
93 Noah Bradley Artist primarily known for his work on Magic: The Gathering cards
94 Noah Falstein Video game designer
95 Noah John Rondeau 1883 American hermit
96 Noah Robertson 1983 Musician
97 Noah Wardrip-Fruin 1972 American media scholar
98 Noah Klieger 1926
99 Noah Matthews American actor
100 Noah Sadaoui 1993 American soccer player
101 Noah Young 1887 American actor
102 Noah Davis 1818 American politician
103 Noah Bendix-Balgley 1984
104 Noah Schwartz 1983
105 Noah Boeken 1981 Dutch poker player
106 Noah Herron 1982 Player of American football
107 Noah van Helsing Character in Marvel Comics
108 Noah Henson 1981 American musician
109 Noah Chivuta 1983 Zambian footballer
110 Noah Valentyn 1986 Dutch actor
111 Noah Cato 1988 English rugby union player
112 Noah Noble 1794 American politician
113 Noah Cicero 1980 American writer
114 Noah Becker 1970 Artist and jazz saxophonist
115 Noah Howard 1943 American musician
116 Noah Cantor 1971 Canadian football player
117 Noah Chesmain 1997
118 Noah Van Sciver 1984 Cartoonist
119 Noah Pollak American journalist
120 Noah Creshevsky 1945 American composer
121 Noah Timmins 1867 Canadian businessman
122 Noah Shachtman
123 Noah Jackson 1951 American football player
124 Noah Mintz Canadian musician
125 Noah Musingku
126 Noah Berlatsky
127 Noah Hickey 1978 New Zealand association footballer
128 Noe Adamia 1917 Soviet soldier
129 Noah Bitsch 1989 German karateka
130 Noah Rod 1996 Swiss ice hockey player
131 Noah Martin 1801 American politician
132 Noah M. Mason 1882 American politician
133 Noah Lyon 1979 American artist
134 Noah Korczowski 1994 German footballer
135 Noah Beauchamp 1785 Murderer
136 John Noah 1927 American ice hockey player
137 Noah Brosch 1948 Israeli astrophysicist
138 Noah Phelps 1740 American general
139 Noah Preminger 1986 American musician
140 Noah Starr 1980 American actor
141 Noah Clarke 1979 American ice hockey player
142 Noah Mickens American artist
143 Noah Powder 1998
144 Noah W. Cross 1908 American sheriff
145 Noah Miller 1980 Canadian water polo player
146 Noah Gordon 1971 American musician
147 Noah Ryan Scott 2000 Canadian actor
148 Noah Strycker 1986
149 Harold J. Noah 1925 Educationist
150 Noah Rubin American musician
151 Noah Scalin 1972 American blogger
152 Noah Wekesa 1936 Kenyan politician
153 Noah Stoddard 1755
154 Noah Eli Gordon 1975 American writer
155 Noah Delgado 1979 Puerto Rican footballer
156 Noah Hoffman 1989 American cross-country skier
157 Noah Greenberg 1919 American conductor
158 Noah Rosenberg American scientist
159 Noah Cowan 1967
160 Noah Schneeberger 1988 Swiss ice hockey player
161 Noah 1971 American artist
162 Noah Lukeman 1973 American actor and writer
163 Noah Mullins 1918 Player of American football
164 Noah Mozes 1912 Israeli newspaper editor
165 Noah Ablett 1883 Trade unionist, political theorist
166 Noah Giffin 1987 Canadian actor
167 Noah Waddell 2001 American pianist
168 Noah Shain American musician
169 Noah Kin 1994
170 Noah de Nooij Dutch actor
171 Noah Wunsch 1970 German artist
172 Noah Dana-Picard 1954 Israeli mathematician and Talmudist
173 Noah Qudah 1939 Jordanian muslim scholar
174 Noah Andre Trudeau
175 Noah O. Knight 1929 United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
176 Nutty Noah
177 Noah Mann 1756 English cricketer
178 Noah Yap
179 Noah Augustine 1971 Canadian Aboriginal chief
180 George Noah 1957 Nigerian businessman
181 Noah Armstrong 1823
182 Noah Carroll
183 Noah Thomas 1720 Welsh physician
184 Noah Worcester 1758 American pacifist
185 Noah Norton 1786 American museum founder
186 Noah Meisel 1891 Latvian politician
187 Noah Manni 1999 Spanish actor
188 Noah Michael Levine 1962 American actor
189 Noah Shepard 1986 American football player
190 Noah Bowman 1992 Freestyle skier
191 Noah Horowitz 1979
192 Noah Babadi Kasule 1985 Ugandan footballer
193 Noah Hamilton Rose 1874 American photographer
194 Noah Ashenhurst 1972 American writer
195 Noah W. Parden 1868
196 Noah Maposa 1985 Botswana footballer
197 Noah Bryant 1984 American shot putter
198 Mohamed Abdullahi Hassan Noah Somali politician
199 William Noah 1943 Canadian politician
200 Noah Baerman