The NOAH surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	4,923	6368	0.002	18
United States (1880 census)	1,098	5056	0.002	22
Change since 1880	+3825	-1312	0	-4
Other Countries
Australia	36	32905	0	2
United Kingdom	164	18465	0	4

Top States for NOAH by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	369	5883	0.002	18
California	359	8205	0.001	11
Missouri	334	2447	0.006	60
North Carolina	325	3434	0.004	40
Alabama	249	2750	0.006	56
Top States for NOAH by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Missouri	334	2447	0.006	60
Alabama	249	2750	0.006	56
Oklahoma	171	3008	0.005	50
Iowa	145	3106	0.005	50
Oregon	158	3037	0.005	46

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NOAH live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NOAH represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NOAH in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NOAH by picking someone at random in Missouri than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NOAH

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NOAH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NOAH surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NOAH in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	335	6.8
Native American/Alaskan	192	3.9
Mixed Race	154	3.13
White (Hispanic)	120	2.44
Asian/Pacific	66	1.34
White (Caucasian)	4,056	82.39

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NOAH surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to NOAH

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOAH.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.