Nox
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Nox is a boys' name of Latin origin, meaning “night”. In 2025 it ranked 3,378th for boys in the US (34 babies).
What does Nox mean?
Latin: Latin nox
“night”
Nox is the Roman personification of night, the counterpart of the Greek Nyx.
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Is Nox a girl's or a boy's name?
Nox is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 34 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nox in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,378among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 34about 1 in 50,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 60% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 34 boys in the US were named Nox, making it the 3,378th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,851st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 37 boys. It first appears in the records in 2010.
Half of all the boys named Nox in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,949 boys in the US were given Nox or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #206, up from #3,378 for this spelling alone.
Nox in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #3,378 |
| 2024 | 30 | #3,691 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,345 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,214 |
| 2021 | 32 | #3,494 |
| 2020 | 19 | #4,851 |
| 2019 | 28 | #3,791 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,766 |
| 2017 | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,344 |
| 2015 | 15 | #5,742 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,481 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,703 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,002 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
Names like Nox
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Nox
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