At a glance
- U.S. rank 2025
- #3,089 of boy names (outside the top 1,000)
- Babies in 2025
- 39 (<0.01% of boys)
- Trend
- Rising #4,540 in 2020 to #3,089 in 2025
- Peak
- #3,089 in 2025
- First recorded
- 2004
Meaning of Nuh
With roots in the classical Arabic lexicon, the name Nuh (pronounced NOO, /nuː/) conjures the venerable persona of Prophet Nuh, whose epochal saga of perseverance and covenant, epitomized by the Deluge, resonates across the corpus of Abrahamic lore like an eternal aurea mediocritas. In academic parlance, Nuh epitomizes an appellation whose brevitas belies its profunditas, distilling millennia of faith into a singular, sonorous syllable. Statistical tabulations in the United States chart a measured ascent—from nineteen newborns and a rank of 915 in 2021 to thirty-three and a rank of 891 in 2024—an increment as steady as the growth of lauri nobilis in a sunlit atrium. Though philologists may dryly note its superficial affinity with the Greek letter nu, the name’s essence remains resolutely Arabic, a confluence of historia and animus that imbues its bearer with both gravitas and grace.
How to pronounce Nuh
Arabic
- Pronounced NOO /nuː/
Popularity of Nuh in the U.S.
Nuh was the #3,089 boy name in the U.S. in 2025, with 39 babies. It first appears in the records in 2004.
- Rank among U.S. boy names (right scale, #1 at the top)
Year-by-year table, 2004–2025 21 rows
| Year | Babies | Rank | vs previous year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 39 | 3,089 | ▲ 366 |
| 2024 | 33 | 3,455 | ▲ 1,620 |
| 2023 | 19 | 5,075 | ▼ 1,458 |
| 2022 | 31 | 3,617 | ▲ 1,319 |
| 2021 | 19 | 4,936 | ▼ 396 |
| 2020 | 21 | 4,540 | ▲ 2,237 |
| 2019 | 12 | 6,777 | ▼ 1,457 |
| 2018 | 17 | 5,320 | ▲ 206 |
| 2017 | 16 | 5,526 | ▼ 402 |
| 2016 | 18 | 5,124 | ▼ 413 |
| 2015 | 20 | 4,711 | ▲ 1,921 |
| 2014 | 12 | 6,632 | ▲ 3,023 |
| 2013 | 7 | 9,655 | ▼ 1,497 |
| 2012 | 9 | 8,158 | ▼ 1,902 |
| 2011 | 13 | 6,256 | ▼ 778 |
| 2010 | 16 | 5,478 | ▲ 7,013 |
| 2009 | 5 | 12,491 | ▼ 2,620 |
| 2008 | 7 | 9,871 | ▼ 956 |
| 2007 | 8 | 8,915 | back (not recorded in 2006) |
| 2005 | 8 | 8,299 | ▲ 3,057 |
| 2004 | 5 | 11,356 | new |
Nuh by state
Notable people named Nuh
- Nuh Ibrahim was a Palestinian folk poet, singer, composer, and fighter from Haifa who began writing poetry as a child.
- Nuh Omar is a Pakistani director and screenwriter.