Noah - for a girl

[AlexanderSkarsgardIWould]

Have been looking through my Bible for some inspiration and there is a female Noah in the Old Testament. I kinda like it - any thoughts?

I met a baby girl called Noa. Seems a bit wanky to me, tbh.

I think it's pretty but definitely spell it Noa as that is the female version.

Lovely name but very common for a boy so potential for bullying issues in addition to possibly a lifetime of letters incorrectly addressed to Mr Noah, and having to ignore the surprise on a colleague / client's face when meeting her for the first time when they may have been expecting a man.

Names in a similar vein:
Eden (more unisex than Noah, I've taught 2 female Edens and one male)
Anais
Nia

I like Noa.

What about Nora?

I like Noah and have always thought it sounds far more feminine than masculine. Go for it.

I have a little boy Noah.

When he was born we got some pink presents from one of my mother's cousins which I was a bit about - lovely present but something that was very definitely for a girl.

When I told my mum she realised what had happened - she'd just left a message for her cousin and said that zipzap had had her baby who was called Noah, lots of other stuff had happened so she got sidetracked by that and hadn't explicitly said it was a boy. Mum and cousin are both Welsh, albeit Mum no longer lives there.

Apparently Noa is a traditional Welsh girls name, so when she got the message she assumed I'd had a girl whereas mum, given that she knew my noah was a boy, had forgotten that it could also be used as a girls name and that her cousin would be more likely to default to the Welsh rather than English option!

It's quite a popular girls' name in Israel. DD1 has two Israeli girls in her class called Noa (without the "h").

Noa for a girl.

Noa is very popular in Holland as a girls name. I love it!

I teach a little boy called (and spelt) the feminine way....Noa. I quite like it for a girl

I think Noa for a girl is lovely

I know a female Kevin and a female James. Trust me, they do NOT thank their parents for their names one bit. If you're set on it, please at least take the suggestions for Noa.

Noa is not a traditional Welsh girls' name. Nia yes, maybe they confused with that? I have spoken Welsh forever and I never knew Noa could be a girls' name. (Though we would spell Noah as Noa in Welsh.)

I was always tall and had a deep voice and felt awkward and would have hated being called a name that was more associated with boys than girls. I think you'd have to be very cool and girly to carry it off, and she may not be.

I'm sorry, a female Kevin????? OMG. Who looks at a newborn baby girl and thinks "she looks like a Kevin?" :o

I don't think it's a good idea but I'm considering it as a name for my little man so can't imagine it as a girls name. Noa looks pretty written down, but I just think it's too well known as a boys name. My friend just card her little girl Nea which I think is beautiful & def wouldn't be mistaken for a boy!

Noa is used as a girl's name amongst israelis and jewish people. In the hebrew the girl's name is pronounced "noah" (the way we all know it) and the boy's "No-uch" where th "uch" sound is a bit like the "ugh" / heavy sigh you do when exasperated.

I love it for a girl or a boy, but would spell it "noa" for a girl.

What sort of attention seeking moron calls their daughter Kevin? If they were going for a "look at us, we're so cool and different" it backfired pretty spectacularly there, didn't it? Gobshites.

• just called lol

I think it was a father who was very disappointed he didn't have a boy, and I can't imagine what the mother was thinking to let him have his way.

Noa is nice, I think Noah will be too confusing on a girl

Ooh I like it for a girl. I'm not keen on it for a boy, it's getting a bit overused IMO.

What's the story behind the female Noah, do you know?

three The female Noa, along with her 4 sisters, argued with Moses and the rest of the elders for a woman's right to inherit their father's land after he died. They win (God says their cause is just) and get their portion of the tribe's land when they arrived in the Promised Land. Positive story from the Torah all around really.

Noah and Noa are actually unrelated names though. It's nice, but I personally wouldn't use it (and prefer Tirzah out of the 5 sisters; names).

Great story, thanks Derbys :)

I rather like it if you spell it Noa, but have to agree with other posters: she will spend her whole life explaining that she is a girl A bit like A Boy Named Sue

I don't think it's like a boy named Sue!

There are lots of boyish sounding girls names. Stevie springs to mind (as she's a character in one of DS's books Red Ted and the Lots things, but I digress )

If Noa is a biblical name it's been a girls name a long old time! It's hardly a boy named Sue is it?!