Novah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Novah: Recorded every year since 2014, it reached #333 in 2020, and it stood at #351 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
19times a registrar ranked it
11years from first to last
#333highest recorded position
1grouping it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2014–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2014	#5691
2015	#3252
2016	#2233
2017	#2201
2018	#1977
2019	#1316
2020	#1313
2021	#1128
2022	#1081
2023	#1135
2024	#1302

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2014 to 2024.

In 2024: #351 among girls in Scotland, #1302 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2014–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2014
First recorded at #5691 among girls in England and Wales in 2014 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2020–2023
Highest recorded position: #333 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2020 (recorded 2020–2023).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1302 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Novah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 11 years beginning in 2014, and has registered 211 births with the name.

Novah across 3 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.

Novah'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 · Girls	#5691 (2014)	#1081 (2022)	#1302 (2024)	11 of 11	211 (2014–2024)	31 (2022)
England and Wales · Boys	#4608 (2020)	#2921 (2024)	#2921 (2024)	5 of 5	24 (2020–2024)	7 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#333 (2020)	#333 (2020)	#391 (2023)	2 of 4	7 (2020–2023)	4 (2020)

Novah appears in

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

Names recorded by exactly 3 registrars

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2014 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #333 in Northern Ireland in 2020.

Novah'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	female	#1302	25	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1135	29	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#4107	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1081	31	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1128	30	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3017	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1313	24	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1316	24	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2201	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#3252	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#351	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2014 and 2024, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #333, first reached in 2020.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 31 births, registered in England and Wales in 2022.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2020, and 10 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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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Noyan · #1692, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, 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.

Rue · #333, 13y
Caila · #330, 9y
Tulisa · #330, 10y
Cushla · #337, 7y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Rue · #333, 13y
Adaline · #337, 11y
Luisne · #337, 9y
Kylian · #339, 12y

Novah was ranked #333 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2020. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Novah 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 Novah without appearing here.

Novah moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1316 and #5591.
Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2201 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1977 and #5666.
Belinda Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3252 and #2945 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2233 and #5785.
Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2233 and #5785.

Moved the opposite way to Novah

Abigail Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Novah went from #5691 to #1302 while Abigail went from #46 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Novah went from #5691 to #1302 while Aimee went from #207 to #1603.
Alex Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Novah went from #5691 to #1302 while Alex went from #1177 to #2253.
Alexandra Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Novah went from #5691 to #1302 while Alexandra went from #107 to #215.

Moved the same way as Novah

Ada Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Novah went from #5691 to #1302 and Ada from #233 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Novah went from #5691 to #1302 and Alma from #629 to #234.
Aria Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Novah went from #5691 to #1302 and Aria from #170 to #35.
Astrid Compare
Between 2014 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Novah went from #5691 to #1302 and Astrid from #486 to #263.

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.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2014 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #333 in Northern Ireland in 2020. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Novah across 3 official records

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