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Noctis

Gender
Boy
Say it
NAHK-tis
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#7,190 for boys

Noctis is a boys' name of Latin origin, meaning “of the night”. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).

What does Noctis mean?

Latin: genitive of nox 'night'

“of the night”

Latin for of the night; Noctis is the prince at the centre of the video game Final Fantasy XV.

Is Noctis a girl's or a boy's name?

Noctis is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Noctis in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,190among boys
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 160,000 boys
Five-year trend
Steadyup 18% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Noctis, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 26 boys. It first appears in the records in 2017.

2025 had fewer boys named Noctis than any year since 2020.

Half of all the boys named Noctis in the US since 1880 were born between 2019 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2017Busiest: 26 in 20242025
Noctis in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202511#7,190
202426#4,069
202321#4,738
202213#6,473
202116#5,557
202010#7,497
201921#4,635
201818#5,102
201717#5,293

Nicknames for Noctis

Names like Noctis

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Ares Caius Atreus Atlas Memphis Kylo Callum Magnus Chozen Cassian Thiago Koa

More Latin names

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Noctis: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/noctis, updated 20 October 2026.