Noa/Noah for a girl - anyone like it?

[sedgiebaby]

I'm not allowed this, but curious if anyone else likes this for a girl

that made me chuckle balloonsayer

I know a little Jewish 2 year old girl called Noa. It is a cute name and really suits her but I guess a lot of people hear it as Noah and think 'Why'?

Gorgeous and quite widely used in Israeli and jewish families.

oooh i normally don't really like names like that but Sailor is quite cool!

seeker: No. I hope she will have the confidence to handle herself around ignorance, whatever that ignorance might be, and plain name or different name, it will come, even if on a trivial message board.

It's academic anyway I'm not using Noah I was asking who liked it, not who disliked it.

Don't like it for boy or girl.

I was a very sensitive and shy child-I just couldn't have handled Noa or Noah-unfortunately you don't know whether your DD will have the confidence to carry it off.

Wasn't Sailor Moon a Japanese cartoon?

Sedgiebaby - you started it.

And, actually, it's not ignorant to think that Noah is a boy's name!

I absolutely love it. I wanted to called our DD it but it doesn't go with our last name.

Noah, the boy's name, should actually be pronounced Noach (with a gutteral "h") so people who called their boy Noah and don't pronounced it that way are the ones giving their child the name from the opposite gender!

I am not crazy about it for a boy, but I definitely wouldn't use it for a girl. Although, I think Noa without the h is used in Spain sometimes.

'Noah, the boy's name, should actually be pronounced Noach (with a gutteral "h") so people who called their boy Noah and don't pronounced it that way are the ones giving their child the name from the opposite gender!"

I'm sure that would have been a great comfort to your daughter throughout her primary school years.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fbn5k0gCVMc

This is a female Noa and I think a lovely song. I have a recording of her singing it with Florent Pagny - brilliant. So having such positive associations with the name, yes I do like it! That's the way it goes generally, tho, isn't it (i.e. I hate the name Simon, but realised to anyone else that just looks irrational!)

Just another similar one to consider - Nuala (think it's pronounced Noo-la) which I think is v pretty.

I actually think it makes a better girls name than a boys. Very pretty, spelt Noa not Noah though.

I like it , prefer Noa for a girl but use whatever spelling you like

Then again I have a daughter called Dylan and couldn't care less what anyone thinks regards to gender association. She makes it her own - end of.

I knew a girl in London who named her baby Noa - it led to constant explanations and confusion and the poor child was only 6 months she had a lifetime of that ahead of her, unless of course she moved to a culture where this usually a girl's name. Don't do it.

Honestly, Seeker, I don't know what sort of neighbourhood or circles you run in but it seems that you are overly-concerned with bullying to the point that you are paranoid about children with perfectly lovely names being harassed. I have seen you make similar comments on other threads. I have a very good friend called Noa, she loves her name and has never been bullied or received otherwise negative treatment because of it. Maybe you should move!?!?

On this thread, if you notice I am in the majority. It is unkind to give a child a name that 95% of the population of the culture he or she lives in will associate with the opposite gender.

a work colleague has just named her DD Noa, although I'd never heard it used with a girl before, I really like it.

There's Noelle?

Noelle is lovely I think...