Nogah
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A rare biblical name of Hebrew origin, Nogah means "brightness" or "splendor" (Biblical Names Compiled Database)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Nogah is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country. Nogah is also written נגה in Hebrew.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.7M(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 2.2Kas נגה
- SESweden1 in 63Kas Naga
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nogah itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Israel (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7M (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 named נגה, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nogah in other scripts: Hebrew
(measured from records)Locally spelled נגה in IL Israel, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A rare biblical name of Hebrew origin, Nogah means "brightness" or "splendor". In the Old Testament, Nogah was one of the sons of the famed King David, born in Jerusalem.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nogah counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #409 | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 761 | נגה | 78 |
| US United States | — | 970as Naga | 1 in 343K | 1.7K | נגה | 76 |
| PL Poland | — | 230as Noga | 1 in 166K | 3.8K | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 162as Naga | 1 in 63K | 162 | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 115as Nega | 1 in 1.8M | 571 | — | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 21as Naga | 1 in 279K | 24 | — | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | 20as Noga | 1 in 94K | 20 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 338 | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Nogah is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
The name Nogah is of Hebrew origin and means "brightness" or "splendor".
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
While Nogah is a minor figure, his inclusion in David's genealogy is theologically significant as it underscores the fulfillment of God's covenant promise to David to establish his lineage. The preservation of his name in the biblical record is seen as part of the historical and sacred lineage leading toward the prophesied Messiah.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
In English, Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Nogah a male or female name?
- Nogah is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Where does the name Nogah come from?
- A rare biblical name of Hebrew origin, Nogah means "brightness" or "splendor". In the Old Testament, Nogah was one of the sons of the famed King David, born in Jerusalem. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- What does the name Nogah mean?
- Recorded meaning: A rare biblical name of Hebrew origin, Nogah means "brightness" or "splendor".
- Which countries have the most people named Nogah?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named נגה in Israel, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Poland, Sweden and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Nogah most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nogah is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 2.7 million people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nogah?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4 people named Nogah, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
- How common is Nogah compared with other names?
- In Israel, Nogah is the 409th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nogahThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nogah” — ranked 1799th in Israel (CBS Israel). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.