Meaning not yet researched.
Noelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,507 in 2025. Its best rank was #202 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Noelle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#202 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Noelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,507 girls in 2025. Peak: #202 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 1,507 (2025).
In 2025, 1,507 US girls were named Noelle, making it the 202nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 11 places from #213 in 2024. That is 63 more than the 1,444 girls named Noelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #202, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,507. For comparison, it was #252 in 2015 and #1,949 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Noelle in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1927 with 5 babies. In all, 44,572 US babies have been given the name, 99.7% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 11,923 babies named Noelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,054 US girls were named Noelle; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,507. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,067 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Noelle ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #64 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Noelia (7,655 babies since 1880), Noella (3,215 babies since 1880) and Noel (67,380 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Noeli, Noela and Noellie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in French. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Noeli (567), Noela (244), Noellie (148).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Noelle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 4 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 11 | #64 | #130 |
| Delaware | 11 | #69 | #173 |
| Vermont | 5 | #96 | — |
| Virginia | 70 | #103 | #207 |
| South Carolina | 39 | #112 | #246 |
| Michigan | 69 | #117 | #207 |
| Maryland | 37 | #122 | #137 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #138 | #148 |
| Massachusetts | 40 | #140 | #219 |
| Minnesota | 39 | #142 | #196 |
| Ohio | 70 | #159 | #193 |
| Alaska | 5 | #162 | #221 |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #163 | #255 |
| New Jersey | 49 | #167 | #227 |
| Wisconsin | 32 | #169 | #204 |
| Pennsylvania | 67 | #169 | #164 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #171 | — |
| Kansas | 19 | #181 | #510 |
| Iowa | 18 | #181 | #402 |
| Illinois | 55 | #186 | #257 |
| Arizona | 36 | #187 | #301 |
| Montana | 6 | #198 | — |
| California | 163 | #206 | #281 |
| North Carolina | 51 | #214 | #283 |
| Connecticut | 16 | #215 | #170 |
| Georgia | 48 | #221 | #320 |
| West Virginia | 8 | #221 | — |
| New York | 78 | #222 | #253 |
| Missouri | 27 | #233 | #309 |
| Washington | 31 | #235 | #248 |
| Oklahoma | 17 | #238 | #303 |
| Florida | 79 | #242 | #286 |
| Colorado | 26 | #248 | #160 |
| Indiana | 27 | #265 | #244 |
| Louisiana | 17 | #269 | #264 |
| Alabama | 18 | #279 | #924 |
| Nebraska | 8 | #286 | #349 |
| Tennessee | 25 | #329 | #326 |
| Idaho | 7 | #341 | #237 |
| Texas | 100 | #345 | #396 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #369 | — |
| Utah | 12 | #381 | #334 |
| Oregon | 8 | #470 | #247 |
| Arkansas | 7 | #479 | #560 |
| Nevada | 6 | #492 | #246 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #500 | #412 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #557 | #418 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,507 | #202 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,444 | #213 | 7 | #10,617 |
| 2023 | 1,457 | #206 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,393 | #210 | 6 | #11,898 |
| 2021 | 1,479 | #202 | 7 | #10,482 |
| 2020 | 1,373 | #210 | 9 | #8,537 |
| 2019 | 1,401 | #221 | 5 | #13,569 |
| 2018 | 1,383 | #229 | 6 | #11,753 |
| 2017 | 1,347 | #238 | 10 | #7,978 |
| 2016 | 1,270 | #249 | 7 | #10,419 |
| 2015 | 1,284 | #252 | 8 | #9,329 |
| 2014 | 1,294 | #250 | 8 | #9,382 |
| 2013 | 1,083 | #294 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,028 | #314 | 7 | #10,452 |
| 2011 | 906 | #358 | — | — |
| 2010 | 876 | #366 | — | — |
| 2009 | 742 | #431 | — | — |
| 2008 | 725 | #441 | — | — |
| 2007 | 650 | #499 | — | — |
| 2006 | 694 | #455 | 6 | #11,650 |
| 2005 | 653 | #468 | — | — |
| 2004 | 686 | #445 | — | — |
| 2003 | 750 | #403 | 5 | #12,206 |
| 2002 | 727 | #401 | — | — |
| 2001 | 639 | #435 | — | — |
| 2000 | 710 | #403 | — | — |
| 1999 | 635 | #434 | — | — |
| 1998 | 678 | #404 | — | — |
| 1997 | 724 | #374 | — | — |
| 1996 | 624 | #413 | — | — |
| 1995 | 569 | #452 | — | — |
| 1994 | 547 | #463 | — | — |
| 1993 | 543 | #463 | — | — |
| 1992 | 552 | #451 | — | — |
| 1991 | 582 | #437 | — | — |
| 1990 | 530 | #460 | — | — |
| 1989 | 513 | #470 | 5 | #8,860 |
| 1988 | 579 | #409 | — | — |
| 1987 | 581 | #397 | — | — |
| 1986 | 441 | #486 | — | — |
| 1985 | 493 | #444 | — | — |
| 1984 | 441 | #470 | 5 | #7,023 |
| 1983 | 404 | #486 | — | — |
| 1982 | 312 | #585 | — | — |
| 1981 | 374 | #523 | 8 | #4,831 |
| 1980 | 446 | #474 | — | — |
| 1979 | 457 | #448 | — | — |
| 1978 | 436 | #455 | — | — |
| 1977 | 445 | #449 | 6 | #5,642 |
| 1976 | 322 | #542 | — | — |
| 1975 | 311 | #550 | — | — |
| 1974 | 247 | #629 | — | — |
| 1973 | 244 | #626 | — | — |
| 1972 | 272 | #589 | — | — |
| 1971 | 343 | #535 | — | — |
| 1970 | 424 | #477 | — | — |
| 1969 | 442 | #461 | — | — |
| 1968 | 454 | #450 | — | — |
| 1967 | 422 | #461 | — | — |
| 1966 | 354 | #498 | — | — |
| 1965 | 227 | #652 | — | — |
| 1964 | 178 | #774 | — | — |
| 1963 | 103 | #1,063 | — | — |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,700 | — | — |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,914 | — | — |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,332 | — | — |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,992 | — | — |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,685 | — | — |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,384 | — | — |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,665 | — | — |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,954 | — | — |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,322 | — | — |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,538 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,693 | — | — |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,382 | — | — |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,886 | — | — |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,097 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,791 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,214 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,950 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,390 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).