Given name & surname
Noy
“a man of small stature”·“one who is beautifully ornamented”
Noy is a variant of Noi. One interpretation is “a man of small stature.” Noy is a variant of Noya. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is beautifully ornamented.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Noy is a variant of Noi. One interpretation is “a man of small stature.” Noy is a variant of Noya. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is beautifully ornamented.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Noy is a variant of Noya. An origin associated with Noya is Arabic.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
From Hebrew נוי (nói, “decoration, adornment”), from Catalan Noy, from Lao ຍ.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1994. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Noy through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 44
- 22 boys · 22 girls
- Most popular year
- 2022
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,354 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,354 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 705 as a first name in 2020; 686 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.
Noy’s family of names
Noy has a related form in Noi. Noy has a related form in Noya. In English usage, Noy as a surname has a related form in Noe.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Noy
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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