The Aborigine version, for example, used Noah's name directly. But when the languages changed, and taking into account the expanse of time and that it was not going by use of scrolls, papyrus, stone, or whatnot as used by the ancients, names of people, places, things, etc.
The thing is a lot of people ommit the times when people believed them, or it is unknown, more than likely if they use the name of noah then, its from the last 200 years when they came in contact with the english missionaries.