Given name
Nohea
“handsome, pretty”
Nohea is a masculine given name from Hawaiian. It is used in Hawaiian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nohea goes back to a word meaning “handsome, pretty.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nohea through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 218
- 42 boys · 176 girls
- Most popular year
- 2020
- 21 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,456 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −50%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,456 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 50.0% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 18 in 2016. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 284 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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