Noa (name)

This article is about the personal name. For the linguistic feature, see Noa-name.

For other uses, see Noa (disambiguation).

Noa is both a male and female given and family name.

In Israel, the name Noa (Hebrew : נֹועָה / נֹעָה) is primarily a popular given name for girls. Derived from the Biblical character Noa (Hebrew: נֹעָה), one of the five Daughters of Zelophehad, the name means “movement”. In some languages, Noa is an alternate spelling of Noah (Hebrew: נֹחַ), although the names are unrelated in Hebrew and are spelled and pronounced differently. ^[1]

People

First name

• Noa (Achinoam Nini) (born 1969), Israeli singer
• Noa Cohen (born 2002), Israeli actress and model
• Noa Denmon (born 1995 or 1996), American illustrator
• Noa James (born 1984), American rapper
• Noa Kirel (born 2001), Israeli singer and actress
• Noa Lang (born 1999), Dutch football player
• Noa Lindberg, American actress
• Noa Nadruku (born 1967), ethnic Fijian rugby player
• Noa Nakaitaci (born 1990), Fiji-born French rugby player
• Noa Nayacakalou, Fijian rugby player
• Noa Palatchy (born 1994), Israeli rhythmic gymnast
• Noa Raviv (born 1987), Israeli fashion designer
• Noa Tishby (born 1977), Israeli actress
• Noa Kazado Yakar (born 2003), Israeli acrobatic gymnast
• Noa (Japanese singer), Japanese singer
• Noa (Japanese singer, born 2000), Japanese singer

Surname

• Azusa Noa (野阿, born 1954), Japanese science fiction writer
• Ivana Noa (born 2003), Belgian actress
• Josef Noa (1856–1903), Hungarian chess master
• Juan Noa (died 1963), Manx dialect poet and playwright
• Kaulana Noa (born 1976), American football offensive guard
• Loveman Noa (1878–1901), US Naval officer killed during the Philippines Insurrection
• Manfred Noa (1893–1930), German film director
• Tavevele Noa (born 1992), Tuvaluan sprinter
• Thomas Lawrence Noa (1892–1977), American clergyman
• Yamilka Noa (born 1980), Cuban–Costa Rican poet and filmmaker

Fictional characters

• Noa Kean, a character from Code Black (TV series)
• Noa, a character from Fresh ^[2]
• Noa (ノア), a character from Kiba
• Noa (dog), a dog from Inubaka: Crazy for Dogs
• Noa Briqualon, a character from Star Wars
• Noa Family (ノア), characters from the Gundam series
• Noa Hollander, a character from the Israeli TV series Beauty and the Baker
  • Noa Hamilton, a character from the American adaptation The Baker and the Beauty
• Noa Izumi (野明), a character from Patlabor
• Noa Kaiba (乃亜), a character from Yu-Gi-Oh!
• Noa Ushio (生塩 ノア), a character from the role-playing game Blue Archive
• Noa Takigawa (ノア), a character from Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches

Notes

1. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Noa (1)".
2. "Fresh (2022 film)", Wikipedia, 2023-02-28, retrieved 2023-03-18