We're expecting baby girl #3 and our first two girls have three letter names. Our last name is long so that's why we went with a short name for #1. Then we just happened to name #2 after a family member who passed which is a three letter name. So now we want another 3 letter name to go along with her big sisters.
We're thinking Noa. Like Noah. Is the spelling too odd? Thoughts?
Thanks!
Re: Opinions on the name Noa for a girl
Noa is the feminine form of Noah, so if it's for a girl, I would spell it the way you're planning.
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Noa/Noah just sounds wrong on a girl to me.
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Noa is a female name in its own right - it has a different meaning than the masculine name Noah because they are derived from two different words. (And actually have opposite meanings. Noa comes from a word meaning movement, Noah comes from a word meaning rest.) In fact, although we pronounce them the same in English thanks to translators, they are not spelled or pronounced the same in Hebrew. (Noa is pronounced the same as we pronounce the male name, however Noah should actually be pronounced "No-awk")
All that being said, Noa is a complete guilty pleasure name for me. I love when other people use it (there's a girl in my son's preschool class with that name) but I wouldn't use it myself just because people are so unfamiliar with it as a girl's name.
This is all really interesting! I didn't realize they had different etymologies (or that Noah should actually be pronounced differently).
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