Noah (name)

Noah is a male given name and a family name .

Origin and meaning

Noah was the tenth patriarch after Adam according to the book of Genesis . That is why it is widely used as a first name and also as a Jewish family name . Noah comes from Hebrew and means: "Comfort, create calm".

variants

• Noach (male)
• Noe (male)
• Noé (male), Noée (female)
• Noa (male - written in various Slavic countries without h)
• Nuh (Arabic and Turkish, male)

The female first name Noa is not a variant of Noah.

Name bearer

First name

• Noah Bastian (* 1979), American actor and singer
• Noah Beery Sr. (1882–1946), American film actor
• Noah Beery jun. (1913–1994), American film actor
• Noah Boeken (* 1981), Dutch poker player
• Noah Cyrus (* 2000), American actress
• Noah Emmerich (* 1965), American film actor and film producer
• Noach Flug (1925–2011), President of the International Auschwitz Committee
• Noah Gordon (born 1926), American writer
• Noah Gray-Cabey (born 1995), American film actor
• Noah Hanifin (born 1997), American ice hockey player
• Noah Hathaway (* 1971), American film actor
• Noah Howard (1943-2010), American jazz saxophonist
• Noah Huntley (born 1974), British film actor
• Noah Lewis (1895–1961), American harmonica player
• Noah Ngeny (* 1978), Kenyan athlete
• Noah Preminger (* 1986), American jazz musician
• Noé Roth (* 2000), Swiss freestyle skier
• Noah Schnapp (* 2004), American actor
• Noe Schordania (1868–1953), Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921)
• Noah Schwartz (born 1983), American poker player
• Noah Silver (* 1994), American-French actor
• Noah Sow (* 1974), German publicist
• Noah Syndergaard (* 1992), American baseball player
• Noah Webster (1758–1843), American writer and publicist
• Noah Wyle (* 1971), American film actor

family name

• Alexander Oskar Noah (1885–1968), German landscape painter
• Joakim Noah (* 1985), American basketball player
• John Noah (1927–2015), American ice hockey player
• Mordechai Immanuel Noah (1785-1851), American-Jewish journalist, publicist, diplomat and philanthropist
• Timothy Noah (* 1958), American journalist
• Trevor Noah (* 1984), South African comedian, TV and radio presenter and actor
• Yannick Noah (* 1960), French tennis player
• Zacharie Noah (1937-2017), French football player