Noe
Pronunciation
  • English: /ˈnoʊ.i/[1]
  • Korean: /nwe/
Language(s)Dutch, English, French, German, Korean, others
Origin
Word/name
  • European languages: the biblical name Noah
  • Korean: the Chinese surnames Lei and Lai
Other names
Variant form(s)
  • English: Noy
  • Korean: Noi, Roe, Roi

Noe is a surname in various European countries originating from the given name Noah, as well as a rare Korean surname meaning "thunder".

Origins

As a Dutch, English, French, and German surname, Noe is derived from the biblical given name Noah (Middle English and Latin Noe).[2][3] Other surnames with the same derivation include the English variant Noy, as well as Noa and Nohe.[4][5] The spelling Noè usually originates from the Italian form of the given name Noah, while the spelling Noé usually originates from the French form, but in many cases, descendants in other countries have dropped the diacritics.[5][6][7] Occasionally, the ancestors of some modern-day bearers of the surname had instead derived it from the given name Noël, or as a toponymic surname from Noé, Haute-Garonne, France.[5] Noah was not a common given name in medieval England when the surname first appeared there, and so Patrick Hanks suggests that the surname may have been used by descendants of people who were nicknamed Noah, for example as a jocular reference to the Genesis flood narrative, or because they had played the part of Noah in a stage play.[8]

As a Korean surname, Noe (Korean: 뇌) can be written with either of two hanja characters: one meaning "thunder" (雷; Korean: 우레 뇌; RR: Ure Noe), and the other meaning "to request" (賴; Korean: 의뢰할 뇌; RR: Uiroehal Noe). In North Korea, both of these surnames are still spelled Roe (뢰), but in South Korea, the spelling of Sino-Korean words starting with 'r' has changed. The first character is used to write the Chinese surname now pronounced Léi in Mandarin Chinese, while the second is used to write the surname Lài.[9][10] In Korea, surnames are also divided by identification with bon-gwan, which are hometowns of a clan lineage. The main bon-gwan for the surname Noe meaning "thunder" is Gyodong-myeon, a township and island in Ganghwa County, Incheon. However, in the 1930 colonial census, most of the households with the surname Noe resided in Hwanghae Province (34 households), with the remaining six households being in South Pyongan (5) and Chungcheongnamdo (1). Its members claim descent from Noe I-seong (Korean: 뇌이성; Hanja: 雷以誠; pinyin: Léi Yǐchéng), who came from China to Korea to take the official post of hyeongbu sirang[11] during the reign of Emperor Dezong of Qing in the late 19th century.[12][13]

Statistics

In Italy, 426 families bore the surname Noe, with 197 (46.2%) located in Lombardy, 49 (11.5%) in Piedmont, and 42 (9.9%) in Veneto.[14]

In the Netherlands, there were 184 people with the surname Noë as of 2007, up from 175 in 1947.[15]

In South Korea, the 2000 census found 80 people in 26 households with the surname Noe meaning "thunder", all but two of whom identified with the Gyodong bon-gwan. There were also 12 people in two households with the surname Noe meaning "to request", but the census did not record their bon-gwan.[16] Statistics for the current distribution of these surnames in North Korea are not available. A 1930 taxation survey by the Japanese colonial government found roughly thirty households with the surname meaning "thunder", primarily in Suan County and Hwangju County, North Hwanghae province (in an area that became part of North Korea after the division of Korea).[12]

The 2010 United States Census found 11,182 people with the surname Noe, making it the 3,229th-most-common name in the country. This represented an increase in absolute numbers, but a decrease in relative proportion, from 10,789 (3,080th-most-common) in the 2000 Census. In both censuses, more than 90% of the bearers of the surname identified as White, between three and five per cent as Hispanic, and between one and two percent as Asian.[17]

People

Humanities

Politics

  • José de Jesús Noé (1805–1862), the last Mexican alcalde of Yerba Buena, now San Francisco
  • Giovanni Noè (1866–1908), Italian lawyer, anarchist, and politician
  • James A. Noe (1890–1976), American politician from Louisiana
  • Cindy Noe (born 1947), American politician from Indiana
  • Thomas Noe (born 1954), American politician from Ohio

Science and medicine

Sport

Visual arts

Other

  • Sydney P. Noe (1885–1969), American numismatist
  • Ana María Noé (1914–1970), Spanish actress
  • Virgilio Noè (1922–2011), Italian Catholic prelate
  • Marie Noe (1928–2016), American woman convicted of murdering eight of her children
  • Clifford Noe (1930–2004), American conman
  • Claus Noé (1938–2008), German economist
  • Arvid Noe (1946–1976), pseudonym of a Norwegian man who died due to AIDS
  • Leo Noe (born 1953), British real estate investor
  • Kevin Noe (born 1969), American conductor and stage director
  • Tankeu Noé (?–1964), Cameroonian guerrilla

References

  1. ↑ Davis, Bruce (2005). We're Dead, Come on in. Pelican Publishing Company. p. 83. ISBN 9781455614059.
  2. ↑ Hanks, Patrick, ed. (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Oxford University Press. p. 674. ISBN 9780195081374.
  3. ↑ Hanks, Patrick; Coates, Richard; McClure, Peter, eds. (2016). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. Oxford University Press. p. 1959. ISBN 9780192527479.
  4. ↑ Hanks 2003, p. 674; Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 1973
  5. 1 2 3 Griebel, Julia; Scheller, Andrea. "Noe". Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "Noè". Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  7. ↑ Griebel, Julia; Scheller, Andrea. "Noé". Digitales Familiennamenwörterbuch Deutschlands. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. Retrieved 11 January 2023.
  8. ↑ Hanks 2003, p. 674; Hanks, Coates & McClure 2016, p. 1973
  9. ↑ 雷. Naver Hanja Dictionary. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
  10. ↑ 賴. Naver Hanja Dictionary. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  11. ↑ "Vice-Minister of Justice", in rough translation; see Three Departments and Six Ministries
  12. 1 2 "뇌(雷)" [Noe]. Daejeon: Jokbo Museum. Retrieved 6 December 2018. The Jokbo Museum cites the following work for their pages on family names: 김진우 (2009). 《한국인 의 역사》 [The History of Koreans]. 春秋筆法 [Chunchu Pilbeop]. OCLC 502157619.
  13. ↑ "교동뇌씨(喬桐雷氏)" [Gyodong Noe clan]. Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  14. ↑ "Diffusione del cognome Noe". Mappe dei Cognomi Italiani. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  15. ↑ "Noë". Nederlandse Familienamenbank. Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
  16. ↑ "행정구역(구시군)/성씨·본관별 가구 및 인구" [Family names by administrative region (district, city, county): separated by bon-gwan, households and individuals]. Korean Statistical Information Service. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  17. ↑ "How common is your last name?". Newsday. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
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