NoI
loc · Latin script
Meaning: to follow; to look in respect
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/nɔj˧˥/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
NoI is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 2.9K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 136K
- NLNetherlands1 in 250K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
592 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
to follow; to look in respect
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
NoI 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 592 | 1 in 562K | 442 | NoI | 125 |
| IS Iceland | 121 | 1 in 2.9K | 121 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 75 | 1 in 136K | 75 | — | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | 69 | 1 in 250K | 62 | — | 5 |
| BR Brazil | 66 | 1 in 3.2M | 132 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 13 | 1 in 451K | 13 | — | 1 |
| AL Albania | 12 | 1 in 256K | 10 | — | — |
592 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling noi. 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)
NoI 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 gv, counter, averse, against, versus, cross, opposed
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Initialism of notice of intent.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In apw, something stored away, cache
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Finnish, nominative plural of toi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Catalan, boy, young man
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)
- Eric Noib. 1967GBBritish boxer
- Adam Noib. 1999FRAlgerian-French martial artist
- Viktor Noi Viðarssonb. 2007ISBelgian-Icelandic association footbaal player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 161 | #115,151 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 132 | #51,233 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 100 | #160,975 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- 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)
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 NoI mean, and where does it come from?
- to follow; to look in respect Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce NoI?
- A machine transcription gives /nɔj˧˥/ (IPA) for Vietnamese.
- In which country does NoI have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 592 people named NoI, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled NoI.
- Where is NoI most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, NoI is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name NoI?
- In the United States, the national register counted 592 people named NoI in 2020, about 1 in 562 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about NoI?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/noiThe 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, “NoI”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.