Noa/Noah

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Bit of a different one - my DS and I were at playgroup today and there was a someone there with a small baby Noah (a girl!)
Noah has never been a unisex name to me but the girl really suited it!!!
What does everyone else think?

I’ve a female cousin named Noa. It’s a lovely name.

I thought Noa was a girl's name? I like it a lot.

I would always thing it's a boys name.

But then again I think James is a boys name and hasn't a celeb called their little girl James?

It seems a bit of a 'look how progressively liberal we are'.

It’s a traditional (originally Hebrew) girls name where I live in Netherlands and also Belgium. Always in the top 100 and heard very often.

I LOVE Noa for a girl 😍

I was very very very tempted to use it for our girl but we weren't quite brave enough. I have slight regret. I think it's beautiful and sounds more feminine than masculine

I love Noah as a girl's name, I saw it on a TV show I watched. Not sure if I would use it though.

Funnily enough I don't mind Noa for a girl, even though I really dislike Noah for a boy

You do sometimes get Noah as a girl's name... I quite like the (usually, but not always) male version of Naomi - Noam. It is usually a boy's name but I know of one or two female Noams.

Noa (spelt Noa) is lovely for a girl.

Noa is definitely a girls name. I much prefer it for a girl (don't like Noah for a boy)

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Yep-call your girl Noah. If you would also call your boy Anne.

And how the hell does a tiny baby "suit" a name?

@Bertrand Russell its not that far out crazy, just not that common in the UK. Lots of Israeli girls are called Noa, it's more common as a girls name than a boys name.

I once taught a lovely girl called Noha. (Autocorrect doesn’t like it though.)

I agree with PP, Noa is a common Jewish/Israeli girls’ name. However, if you’re in the UK, you may find lots of people with Betrand’s reaction!

Absolutely. I know there are lots of girls called Noa in Israel. I am assuming that the OP does not live in Israel.

Yep-call your girl Noah. If you would also call your boy Anne.

Agree if you are UK based.

I know a little Noa in the UK. Pretty name!

Yep-call your girl Noah. If you would also call your boy Anne.
Agreed. Unless you have some Israeli heritage where Noa would make sense.

The a ending sounds feminine, so Noa for a girl sounds prettier than Noah for a boy imo

In what way did the little girl "suit" the name? I never understand what this means. It comes up on these boards a lot. Noa may be OK, Noah isn't.

In what way did the little girl "suit" the name? I never understand what this means. It comes up on these boards a lot.

What don't you understand about that? Do you honestly think that all children would just suit any name? I know for certain my daughter wouldn't suit Emily or Brenda for instance. I can sit and look at her now and go through the list of names I had written down for consideration and say which ones would have suited her and which wouldn't. (oh and Emily and Brenda were not on that list)

Yes, I think all children would just suit any name. You name them as newborns. You pick a name that you think is nice. I picked names that Iiked for my children. If the children had been born in a different order, they probably would have different names - ie, if the first two were born the other way round, they would have the other one's name. Any nicknames or diminutives that emerge later maybe linked to their personality or how it "suits" them, but that's a different matter.

Noah is my favourite name for a girl and if I'd had a little girl she would have been Noah. I only had boys though and none of them are called Noah.