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Noir

Gender
Mostly girls
Say it
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Origin
French
US rank, 2025
#11,928 for girls

Noir is a name of French origin, meaning “black”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).

What does Noir mean?

French: French word

“black”

The French word for black, familiar in English from film noir.

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

In recent years, Noir has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls and 5 boys in the US.

How popular is Noir in the US?

Rank in 2025
#11,928among girls
Babies in 2025
7about 1 in 230,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Noir, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2018. 5 boys were also named Noir in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).

2025 had fewer girls named Noir than any year since 2019.

Half of all the girls named Noir in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.

2018Busiest: 17 in 20232025
Noir in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20257#11,928
202411#8,941
202317#6,675
202212#8,536
202110#9,557
202016#6,919
20190–
20185#15,677

Names like Noir

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

Rynlee Teagan Brynlee Nora Cove Braelynn Briar Kaoir Kashlynn Brynn Keegan Eowyn

Names related to Noir

Noor Nori Nour Norie Nore Noar

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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, “Noir: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/noir, updated 20 October 2026.