Given name & surname

Noda

Noda is a surname from Japanese.

Original Japanese野田

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Noda comes from Japanese.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Japanese 野田 (Noda).

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Noda through the years

Babies since 1880
6
0 boys · 6 girls
Most popular year
1924
6 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
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Noda in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1924–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 1924. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,392 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Noda’s family of names

In English usage, Noda as a surname was borrowed from the Japanese form 野田.

Walk Noda’s family in the name graph

Noda野田

The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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