Meaning not yet researched.
Nolyn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,473 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,473 in 2012; #5,151 in 2025. About 59% of babies named Nolyn in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,151 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #2,473.
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Nolyn: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,473 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 53 (2019).
In 2025, 19 US boys were named Nolyn, making it the 5,151st most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,484 places from #3,667 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 31 boys named Nolyn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,473, reached in 2012. The most boys given the name in a single year was 53, in 2019. For comparison, it was #3,205 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Nolyn, making it the 8,220th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,656 places from #10,876 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 9 girls named Nolyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8,039, reached in 2019. That year also had the most girls given the name: 14. For comparison, it was #8,326 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nolyn in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 7 babies. In all, 979 US babies have been given the name, 18% of them girls and 82% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 460 babies named Nolyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 347 US boys were named Nolyn; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 53. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,899 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Nolan (136,061 babies since 1880) and Nolen (3,458 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Nolyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,220 | 19 | #5,151 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,876 | 31 | #3,667 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,442 | 23 | #4,571 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,998 | 40 | #3,087 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,906 | 42 | #2,953 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,081 | 46 | #2,718 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,039 | 53 | #2,516 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,644 | 32 | #3,498 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,776 | 27 | #3,951 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,747 | 34 | #3,342 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,326 | 36 | #3,205 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,511 | 37 | #3,073 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,228 | 33 | #3,322 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,983 | 51 | #2,473 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,824 | 29 | #3,671 |
| 2010 | — | — | 39 | #2,994 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,813 | 38 | #3,090 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,979 | 24 | #4,230 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,591 | 30 | #3,572 |
| 2006 | — | — | 30 | #3,504 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,439 | 25 | #3,790 |
| 2004 | — | — | 27 | #3,515 |
| 2003 | — | — | 21 | #4,071 |
| 2002 | — | — | 8 | #8,231 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,919 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,975 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,199 |
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).