Noar

given name · Portuguese · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Noar is a given name, most frequently recorded in Brazil. It appears chiefly in Portuguese and Albanian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from residence near a shore, bank, or steep slope, OE ōra; first attested Walter Nore 1275 RH (Lancashire).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 1.5M◐
  • XKKosovo1 in 991
  • ALAlbania1 in 11K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

Meaning & origin●

from residence near a shore, bank, or steep slope, OE ōra; first attested Walter Nore 1275 RH (Lancashire)

Sources 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Where in the world●

Where Noar is recorded, by country
CountryShare of this name
BR Brazil1,99233%
AL Albania83114%
AT Austria5409%
XK Kosovo4768%
CH Switzerland4227%

≈4,261 recorded bearers across the countries shown (a sample of the full distribution).

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Portuguese1.7K27%
  • Albanian1.3K22%
  • German1.1K18%
  • Arabic5138%
  • English4638%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Portuguese1,66127%
Albanian1,31322%
German1,07418%
Arabic5138%
English4638%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other recorded senses●

Noar is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In vec, to swim

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In stq, narrow

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In bar, fool

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Basque, star

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02004006001990200020102020476 · 2017

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Noar in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1989–2025
Yearrecords
19891
19921
19931
19952
19961
19971
19981
19991
20001
20011
20021
20041
20051
20066
20077
200810
200913
201025
201143
201262
201390
2014129
2015244
2016414
2017476
2018437
2019326
2020267
2021217
2022244
2023210
2024170
2025151

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 33 years between 1989–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 37 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Noar
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—3.3K#172
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2017476—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2018437—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2016414—
AL AlbaniaINSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts)—409#1,081
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022334—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2019326—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—314#17,682
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2020267—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020264—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2022244—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)2015244—

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 147 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Noar?
Our records include 4,261 bearers of Noar across 5 countries — a sample of the full distribution.
In which country does Noar have the most bearers?
Noar is most frequently recorded in Brazil.
Is Noar a male or female name?
Noar is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Noar mean?
Recorded meaning: from residence near a shore, bank, or steep slope, OE ōra; first attested Walter Nore 1275 RH (Lancashire)
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Noar”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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