Nou
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Alternative form of noh (“classical Japanese music drama”)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nou is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Algeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 248K(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 37Kas หน่อย
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 9.8K
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 Nou itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Algeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
13 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled หน่อย in TH Thailand, Noo in VN Vietnam and Nose in LA Laos.
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)
Alternative form of noh (“classical Japanese music drama”).
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nou 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DZ Algeria | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | — | Nou | 6 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 37K | #756,479 | หน่อย | 86 |
| US United States | — | 1,340 | 1 in 248K | 2.8K | Nou | 142 |
| VN Vietnam | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Noo | 26 |
| LA Laos | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Nose | 18 |
| IS Iceland | — | 121as Nói | 1 in 2.9K | 121 | — | — |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | #261 | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Nou | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Nou is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lou, alternative form of nouzòt (“we, us; our”)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, come on; modal particle indicating a certain degree of urgency or impatience on behalf of the speaker.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mfe, we; us (first-person plural personal pronoun)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Hawaiian, yours, for you (second person singular)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Chinese, nonstandard spelling of nóu
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alexandre NouFRPh.D. Université de Franche-Comté 2004
- Jennifer NouUSAmerican legal scholar
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1K | #10,085 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 315 | #10,085 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1993 | 34 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1988 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1991 | 29 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 24 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1990 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1995 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1989 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 14 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nou mean, and where does it come from?
- Alternative form of noh (“classical Japanese music drama”). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Nou a male or female name?
- Nou is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Nou have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.4 thousand people named Nou in Algeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nou.
- How common is the name Nou?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,340 people named Nou in 2020, about 1 in 248 thousand residents.
- How common is Nou compared with other names?
- In Antigua & Barbuda, Nou is the 261st most common given name of 3,327 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/nouThe 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, “Nou” — the 261st most common given name in Antigua & Barbuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.