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Nuh

NOO /nuː/ Arabic

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

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.

Bar and line chart: Nuh in the U.S., 2004–2025. Bars: boys given the name each year, most 39 in 2025. Line: rank among boy names, peak #3,089 in 2025.
  • Boys named Nuh (left scale)
  • Rank among U.S. boy names (right scale, #1 at the top)
By year, 2004–2025. Source: SSA. Download: PNG · SVG
Year-by-year table, 2004⁠–⁠2025 21 rows
Nuh: babies and rank among boy names in the U.S. by year
YearBabiesRankvs previous year
2025393,089▲ 366
2024333,455▲ 1,620
2023195,075▼ 1,458
2022313,617▲ 1,319
2021194,936▼ 396
2020214,540▲ 2,237
2019126,777▼ 1,457
2018175,320▲ 206
2017165,526▼ 402
2016185,124▼ 413
2015204,711▲ 1,921
2014126,632▲ 3,023
201379,655▼ 1,497
201298,158▼ 1,902
2011136,256▼ 778
2010165,478▲ 7,013
2009512,491▼ 2,620
200879,871▼ 956
200788,915back (not recorded in 2006)
200588,299▲ 3,057
2004511,356new

Nuh by state

Nuh ranks #1,267 in Ohio (2025).

Map: Nuh's 2025 rank among boy names in each U.S. state
Rank among boy names by state, 2025. Source: SSA. Download: PNG · SVG
Rank by state 4 states
Nuh: rank and babies by state, 2025
StateRankBabies
Ohio1,2675
Illinois1,2805
Florida1,8315
Texas2,5745

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.