Meaning not yet researched.
Nolen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 58 in 2025. Its best rank was #925 in 1892.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #925 in 1892; #2,381 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nolen in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,381 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1892, at #925.
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Nolen: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 58 boys in 2025. Peak: #925 in 1892 · most boys in one year: 110 (2009).
In 2025, 58 US boys were named Nolen, making it the 2,381st most common boys’ name of the year, down 47 places from #2,334 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 61 boys named Nolen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #925, reached in 1892. The most boys given the name in a single year was 110, in 2009. For comparison, it was #1,749 in 2015 and #1,931 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nolen in 118 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1892 with 7 babies. In all, 3,458 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 846 babies named Nolen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 705 US boys were named Nolen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 91. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,450 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nolen ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,416 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Nolan (136,061 babies since 1880) and Nolyn (979 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Noelene are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Noelene (6).
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 Nolen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,416 | #1,259 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,482 | #2,059 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 58 | #2,381 |
| 2024 | — | — | 61 | #2,334 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,961 | 52 | #2,570 |
| 2022 | — | — | 72 | #2,091 |
| 2021 | — | — | 69 | #2,103 |
| 2020 | — | — | 69 | #2,060 |
| 2019 | — | — | 79 | #1,895 |
| 2018 | — | — | 82 | #1,850 |
| 2017 | — | — | 72 | #1,995 |
| 2016 | — | — | 91 | #1,718 |
| 2015 | — | — | 88 | #1,749 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,509 | 77 | #1,899 |
| 2013 | — | — | 79 | #1,823 |
| 2012 | — | — | 93 | #1,663 |
| 2011 | — | — | 82 | #1,775 |
| 2010 | — | — | 98 | #1,608 |
| 2009 | — | — | 110 | #1,516 |
| 2008 | — | — | 84 | #1,786 |
| 2007 | — | — | 98 | #1,604 |
| 2006 | — | — | 61 | #2,141 |
| 2005 | — | — | 58 | #2,122 |
| 2004 | — | — | 64 | #1,924 |
| 2003 | — | — | 45 | #2,383 |
| 2002 | — | — | 49 | #2,185 |
| 2001 | — | — | 45 | #2,268 |
| 2000 | — | — | 34 | #2,721 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #3,000 |
| 1998 | — | — | 42 | #2,185 |
| 1997 | — | — | 24 | #3,130 |
| 1996 | — | — | 19 | #3,638 |
| 1995 | — | — | 15 | #4,213 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,722 |
| 1993 | — | — | 21 | #3,217 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #5,151 |
| 1991 | — | — | 23 | #2,889 |
| 1990 | — | — | 17 | #3,562 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,959 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,681 |
| 1987 | — | — | 10 | #4,482 |
| 1986 | — | — | 14 | #3,385 |
| 1985 | — | — | 13 | #3,543 |
| 1984 | — | — | 15 | #3,058 |
| 1983 | — | — | 14 | #3,185 |
| 1982 | — | — | 14 | #3,239 |
| 1981 | — | — | 19 | #2,551 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,824 |
| 1979 | — | — | 13 | #3,304 |
| 1978 | — | — | 8 | #4,446 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #4,067 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,416 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,267 |
| 1973 | — | — | 12 | #2,972 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,809 |
| 1971 | — | — | 9 | #3,578 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,576 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,829 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,084 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,919 |
| 1966 | — | — | 7 | #3,451 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,170 |
| 1964 | — | — | 9 | #2,995 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,908 |
| 1962 | — | — | 15 | #2,164 |
| 1961 | — | — | 12 | #2,501 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,942 |
| 1959 | — | — | 20 | #1,846 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,485 |
| 1957 | — | — | 10 | #2,774 |
| 1956 | — | — | 23 | #1,670 |
| 1955 | — | — | 21 | #1,714 |
| 1954 | — | — | 16 | #2,024 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,664 |
| 1952 | — | — | 20 | #1,730 |
| 1951 | — | — | 17 | #1,886 |
| 1950 | — | — | 16 | #1,931 |
| 1949 | — | — | 17 | #1,859 |
| 1948 | — | — | 21 | #1,643 |
| 1947 | — | — | 22 | #1,634 |
| 1946 | — | — | 18 | #1,736 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,832 |
| 1944 | — | — | 20 | #1,565 |
| 1943 | — | — | 17 | #1,809 |
| 1942 | — | — | 15 | #1,924 |
| 1941 | — | — | 21 | #1,514 |
| 1940 | — | — | 24 | #1,391 |
| 1939 | — | — | 22 | #1,449 |
| 1938 | — | — | 26 | #1,328 |
| 1937 | — | — | 17 | #1,730 |
| 1936 | — | — | 12 | #2,146 |
| 1935 | — | — | 19 | #1,638 |
| 1934 | — | — | 26 | #1,347 |
| 1933 | — | — | 30 | #1,221 |
| 1932 | — | — | 26 | #1,372 |
| 1931 | — | — | 15 | #1,979 |
| 1930 | — | — | 28 | #1,388 |
| 1929 | — | — | 28 | #1,370 |
| 1928 | — | — | 19 | #1,806 |
| 1927 | — | — | 22 | #1,683 |
| 1926 | — | — | 24 | #1,552 |
| 1925 | — | — | 30 | #1,352 |
| 1924 | — | — | 36 | #1,217 |
| 1923 | — | — | 36 | #1,207 |
| 1922 | — | — | 25 | #1,536 |
| 1921 | — | — | 32 | #1,315 |
| 1920 | — | — | 35 | #1,229 |
| 1919 | — | — | 35 | #1,203 |
| 1918 | — | — | 26 | #1,435 |
| 1917 | — | — | 24 | #1,471 |
| 1916 | — | — | 28 | #1,293 |
| 1915 | — | — | 27 | #1,295 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,662 |
| 1913 | — | — | 15 | #1,422 |
| 1912 | — | — | 6 | #2,471 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,494 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,626 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,294 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,444 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #925 |
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).