Noe
A comeback story: given to just a handful of boys most years last decade, Noe jumped to 58 newborns in 2025, all boys. The name comes from Hebrew and carries the sense of "rest" or "repose".
Noe Pronunciation
Noe is pronounced NO-e (/ˈnɔɛ/).
What Noe means
Where Noe comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Noe comes from Hebrew. It goes back to Noach, the root that also gave us Noah, and that old word points toward rest and repose. English renders it as rest. Polish reaches for odpoczynek, spokój.
Noe is short. Barely more than a breath. On a Polish class register it settles between longer names, quick to call during roll on the first day of school.
The Hebrew sense of rest was never a promise about anyone's life. It was a meaning a bearer could lean toward or resist. Noah carried the name into the biblical flood story, and the sound outlasted every retelling, passing from Hebrew into Greek as Noe and onward. A child named Noe today holds a word that older languages kept for calm: odpoczynek, spokój, rest.
When Noe celebrates name day
Noe appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 31 May.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Noe
1 in 59131 men in Poland is named Noe. 363 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1572 among male names.
Noe's popularity over time
58 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #330 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2012.
Where parents choose Noe
Noe is most popular in West Pomeranian, 63% above the national average (12 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+56%) and Greater Poland (+22%). It is least common in Kuyavian-Pomeranian and Lubusz, 69% and 54% below average respectively.
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West Pomeranian
+63%1 in 7,035 babies
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Lesser Poland
+56%1 in 7,320 babies
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Greater Poland
+22%1 in 9,358 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
−69%1 in 36,460 babies
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Lubusz
−54%1 in 24,829 babies
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Opole
−50%1 in 23,048 babies
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West Pomeranian+63% 12 born1 in 7,035 babies+63%
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Lesser Poland+56% 31 born1 in 7,320 babies+56%
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Greater Poland+22% 23 born1 in 9,358 babies+22%
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Łódź+17% 13 born1 in 9,748 babies+17%
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Masovian+13% 35 born1 in 10,122 babies+13%
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Pomeranian+9% 14 born1 in 10,523 babies+9%
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Silesian+6% 21 born1 in 10,837 babies+6%
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Subcarpathian−5% 10 born1 in 12,057 babies−5%
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Warmian-Masurian−20% 5 born1 in 14,359 babies−20%
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Lower Silesian−27% 10 born1 in 15,713 babies−27%
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Lublin−44% 5 born1 in 20,535 babies−44%
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Podlaskie−48% 3 born1 in 21,929 babies−48%
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Opole−50% 2 born1 in 23,048 babies−50%
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Lubusz−54% 2 born1 in 24,829 babies−54%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian−69% 3 born1 in 36,460 babies−69%
Noe as a middle name
Noe is a first name for 363 men in Poland and a middle name for another 201, a 64/36 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 484th, between Rao (202) and Luca (199).
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#482 Abraham205
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#483 Rao202
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#484 Noe201
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#485 Luca199
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#486 Henri195