Noah is a lovely name.
Jacob/Jake was top 10 where I am about 15-20 years ago and apparently there are quite a few Jakes in every first year college year etc. This year’s University of Washington football team has four quarterbacks named Jake or Jacob, in addition to Jake the linebacker and a tight end named Jacob. Disambiguation is a challenge. The starting senior quarterback gets to be called “Jake,” while the others are known by nicknames, or contractions of their last names.
Stafford’s Pier, a seafood restaurant in Harbor Springs, Mich., has five Jakes on staff, and, like the Huskies, they use work-arounds to tell one from another. The Jake with red hair became “Red;” another was known by his initials, “J.C.,”
But so what? Their family and friends know them by their name (and if it is a lovely name like Jacob or Noah even better). Their girlfriends don't need a substitute name.
The guys I worked with who are now retired were nearly all called Bill, Bob, Tom, Jim, Richard, John or Pat. The women Sue, Mary, Ann, Catherine (and Marlene, Darlene and Charlene if born in a certain few years if american) No one cared or thought they lacked individuality. I can remember each of them individually as wonderful people. I remember the many Bill, Bob, John and Susan, Ann, Mary and Catherine every bit as fondly and individually as the single Hunter, Ginger, Darwins etc
I know a Samson - have known him for the past 17 years and tbh I still find it a name that doesn't seem quite really a name. (mind you he goes by Samson - in the UK, your son will be Sam which will as popular as Noah)