Noïa
surname · Latin script
Noïa is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 3,561 people, counted by IBGE. Recorded meaning: Probably attested as Νοουιον (Noouion) in Ancient Greek (Ptolemy), from a local Celtic substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *nouyos (“new”).
- BRBrazil1 in 59K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 455K
- USUnited States1 in 1.1M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- 1 in 59K (inferred from the name graph)
3,561 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Noia in FR France, 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)Probably attested as Νοουιον (Noouion) in Ancient Greek (Ptolemy), from a local Celtic substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *nouyos (“new”).
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Noïa is found
(measured from records)Noïa 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 3,561 | 1 in 59K | 3.6K | — | — |
| US United States | 310 | 1 in 1.1M | 347 | Noia | 36 |
| AR Argentina | 100 | 1 in 455K | 100 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 32 | 1 in 1.6M | 32 | — | 2 |
| FR France | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 15M | 6 | Noia | 89 |
| CH Switzerland | 5 | 1 in 1.7M | 5 | — | 2 |
3,561 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). 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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)Noïa is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, first/third-person singular imperfect indicative of noure
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Noïa mean, and where does it come from?
- Probably attested as Νοουιον (Noouion) in Ancient Greek (Ptolemy), from a local Celtic substrate language, from Proto-Celtic *nouyos (“new”). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Noïa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 3.6 thousand people named Noïa, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Argentina, Spain and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Noïa most common?
- Noïa is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 59 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Noïa?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 3,561 people named Noïa, about 1 in 59 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Noïa?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/no%C3%AFaThe 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, “Noïa” — ranked 2975th in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.