Noa (נֹעָה) is a Hebrew name meaning "movement" or "motion" — distinct from the masculine Noah (Noach), though they sound identical in English. In the Book of Numbers, Noa is one of the five daughters of Zelophehad who successfully petition Moses for inheritance rights.
Noa is one of the most popular girl names in Israel and the Netherlands. In the U.S. it is rising — the actress Noa Kirel (Israel's 2023 Eurovision representative) and the model Noa Tishby are notable bearers. Today Noa sits in the U.S. top 800 but is climbing fast.
Noa does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Noa reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.