According to Genesis, what was Noah’s wife called in the Noah’s Ark account?

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According to Genesis, Noah’s wife is unnamed in the Noah’s Ark account.

Genesis mentions Noah’s wife as one of the eight people who entered the Ark, but it does not give her a personal name. Genesis 7:7 describes Noah entering the Ark with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives. The same family group is included in later references to surviving the Flood.

Later Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions supply different names or identifications for Noah’s wife. Naamah is a name found in some Jewish traditions, while other later sources use different names. Those traditions are not names stated in the Genesis Ark narrative itself, so they cannot replace the text’s direct answer: she is unnamed.

The same applies to the wives of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Genesis says they entered the Ark but does not name them. This makes questions about Noah’s wife’s personal name dependent on the tradition being cited. Restricting the question to Genesis avoids treating later folklore as biblical wording.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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