In 2025, 98 US girls were named Noella, making it the 1,975th most common girls’ name of the year, down 95 places from #1,880 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 107 girls named Noella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,279, reached in 1915. The most girls given the name in a single year was 147, in 2018. For comparison, it was #2,071 in 2015 and #2,168 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Noella in 120 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 3,215 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 896 babies named Noella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,109 US girls were named Noella; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 147. In 2025 that was about 1 in 16,401 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Noella ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,561 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Noelle (44,572 babies since 1880), Noelia (7,655 babies since 1880) and Nola (26,271 babies since 1880).