Noam

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Noam: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Noam: Recorded every year since 1997, it reached #1,494 in 2009, and it stood at #3,688 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
28years from first to last
#1494highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2016

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2016	#5785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1997–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #2337 among boys in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #1494 among boys in England and Wales, in 2009 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3688 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Noam appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 211 births with the name.

Noam across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Noam's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#2337 (1997)	#1494 (2009)	#3688 (2024)	27 of 28	211 (1997–2024)	15 (2009)
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#3848 (1998)	#5785 (2016)	2 of 19	6 (1998–2016)	3 (1998)

Noam by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Noam in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	63	10 of 10	6
2010sbusiest	107	10 of 10	11
2020s	34	5 of 10	7

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 11 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Noam appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1494 in England and Wales in 2009.

Noam's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#3688	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2529	8	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#2730	7	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2404	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2104	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1923	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2175	10	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2248	9	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2216	9	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1962	11	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1911	11	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1494	15	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2775	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2282	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2304	6	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#3467	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1997 and 2024, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,494, first reached in 2009.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 15 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
28 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years20 to 29 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#3,688position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
15births registered in its largest year, 2009Under 25 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Sinan · #1494, 29y
Niccolo · #1492, 24y
Ajeet · #1498, 24y
Deio · #1498, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Sinan · #1494, 29y
Motty · #1492, 17y
Niccolo · #1492, 24y
Lavender · #1491, 14y

Noam and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Noam without appearing here.

Noam moved ahead of

Nils Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2707 and #2319 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2016 that had become #2175 and #4810.
Garry Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2216 and #2216 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2248 and #4632.
Kristoffer Compare
In 2006 they stood at #3849 and #3208 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #2023 and #4333.
Ada Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2775 and #2775 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1911 and #3865.

Moved ahead of Noam

Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2529 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #3112 and #1461.
Mathias Compare
In 2007 they stood at #2023 and #2211 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #2775 and #1511.
Henrik Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2248 and #2690 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #2707 and #2020.
Gustav Compare
In 2020 they stood at #2404 and #3334 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2021 that had become #2730 and #2125.

Moved the opposite way to Noam

Albie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Noam went from #2337 to #3688 while Albie went from #914 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Noam went from #2337 to #3688 while Alfie went from #92 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Noam went from #2337 to #3688 while Alfred went from #192 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Noam went from #2337 to #3688 while Archie went from #141 to #10.

Moved the same way as Noam

Aaron Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Noam went from #2337 to #3688 and Aaron from #32 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Noam went from #2337 to #3688 and Adam from #20 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Noam went from #2337 to #3688 and Alan from #179 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Noam went from #2337 to #3688 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1997 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1494 in England and Wales in 2009. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Noam

Noam at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Noam across 2 official records

Noam by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Noam appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Noam at a glance

Noam across 2 official records

Noam by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Noam appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Noam and the names beside it

Noam moved ahead of

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