Meaning not yet researched.
Novalee: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 261 in 2025. Its best rank was #743 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #743 in 2024; #977 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Novalee in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#977 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #743.
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Novalee: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 261 girls in 2025. Peak: #743 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 379 (2024).
In 2025, 261 US girls were named Novalee, making it the 977th most common girls’ name of the year, down 234 places from #743 in 2024. That is 118 fewer than the 379 girls named Novalee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #743, reached in 2024. That year also had the most girls given the name: 379. For comparison, it was #1,150 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Novalee in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 7 babies. In all, 4,567 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,055 babies named Novalee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,324 US girls were named Novalee; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 379. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,158 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Novalee ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #356 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Novalie (808 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Novali, Novalei and Novaly 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: Novali (208), Novalei (151), Novaly (122), Novalea (104), Novahlee (42), Novaley (30), Novaleah (15), Novalia (10).
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 Novalee 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 5 | #356 | — |
| Kentucky | 9 | #491 | — |
| Utah | 7 | #587 | — |
| Indiana | 11 | #605 | #922 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #639 | #484 |
| Ohio | 15 | #661 | #1,042 |
| Missouri | 8 | #714 | #1,092 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #750 | #922 |
| Colorado | 7 | #771 | #998 |
| Texas | 33 | #896 | #1,137 |
| Georgia | 11 | #899 | #1,458 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #913 | #1,147 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #974 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #988 | — |
| North Carolina | 9 | #1,038 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,094 | #609 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,144 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,224 | #1,446 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,362 | #762 |
| New York | 9 | #1,490 | #1,461 |
| California | 10 | #2,053 | #1,371 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 261 | #977 | — | — |
| 2024 | 379 | #743 | — | — |
| 2023 | 368 | #767 | — | — |
| 2022 | 344 | #818 | — | — |
| 2021 | 368 | #774 | — | — |
| 2020 | 335 | #811 | — | — |
| 2019 | 333 | #822 | — | — |
| 2018 | 351 | #780 | — | — |
| 2017 | 297 | #904 | — | — |
| 2016 | 288 | #951 | — | — |
| 2015 | 221 | #1,150 | — | — |
| 2014 | 169 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 2013 | 108 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,183 | — | — |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 2010 | 57 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 2009 | 68 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 2008 | 56 | #3,078 | — | — |
| 2007 | 62 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,543 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,568 | — | — |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,576 | — | — |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 2001 | 63 | #2,480 | — | — |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,917 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,107 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,228 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,389 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,695 | — | — |
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).