Noma
Noma is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 778th, in 1912.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191666 births
- Best rank
- #778in 1912
- Since 1886
- 1,895people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,895 girls have been named Noma in the United States since 1886, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1916, with 66 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 66 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 12 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1916, its biggest year
Noma was the 836th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1916 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1916.
Names that rose and fell with Noma
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Myrtispeak 1921
- Alberthapeak 1922
- Neomapeak 1924
- Vertapeak 1922
- Ermapeak 1920
- Neolapeak 1918
- Cledapeak 1917
- Velmapeak 1921
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.