Is Noa a male or female name?
Noa is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Spain at 100% and male usage in France at 83%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 61%
- Sample size
- 104,524
- Confidence
- high
Noa by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| France FR | male | 83% | 41,975 | insee |
| Spain ES | female | 100% | 40,682 | ine |
| United States US | female | 83% | 12,649 | ssa |
| England and Wales GB | female | 73% | 2,779 | ons |
| Switzerland CH | male | 58% | 2,453 | bfs |
| Canada CA | female | 66% | 2,230 | statcan |
| Poland PL | female | 92% | 787 | pesel |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 439 | ssb |
| Austria AT | male | 70% | 405 | statat |
| Ireland IE | female | 65% | 125 | cso |
Attested in 19 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · DE · DK · ES · FR · GB · IE · IL · JP · LI · NO · NZ · PL · SE · US
Noa over time
In the United States, 62.7% of the babies named Noa in the 1980s were girls, against 88.2% in the 2020s. In France, 92.6% of the babies named Noa in the 1990s were girls, against 22.8% in the 2020s. The name has changed sides over time, so the answer depends on when a person was born.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 63% | 110 | — | |
| 1990s | 76% | 542 | 93% | 470 |
| 2000s | 70% | 2,216 | 19% | 18,740 |
| 2010s | 83% | 4,049 | 10% | 16,230 |
| 2020s | 88% | 5,705 | 23% | 6,480 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Noa with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Noa&country=FR" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Noa
Is Noa a male or female name?
Noa is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in Spain at 100% and male usage in France at 83%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Noa change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Noa identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.