Boy name origins & meanings
- Hebrew : Beauty; decoration
Family name origins & meanings
- English : variant of Noe.
- Jewish (Israeli) : ornamental name from Hebrew noy ‘decoration’, ‘adornment’, in part adopted as a Hebraicized form of various Ashkenazic surnames containing the unrelated German element neu, e.g. Neumann (see Newman).
- Catalan : variant of Noi, nickname from noi ‘boy’, ‘lad’.