Meaning not yet researched.
Novella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 69 in 2025. Its best rank was #494 in 1905.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #494 in 1905; #2,559 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Novella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,559 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1905, at #494.
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Novella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 69 girls in 2025. Peak: #494 in 1905 · most girls in one year: 186 (1923).
In 2025, 69 US girls were named Novella, making it the 2,559th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,001 places from #3,560 in 2024. That is 25 more than the 44 girls named Novella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #494, reached in 1905. The most girls given the name in a single year was 186, in 1923. For comparison, it was #4,207 in 2015 and #1,445 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Novella in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 6 babies. In all, 6,272 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,314 babies named Novella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 542 US girls were named Novella; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 69. In 2025 that was about 1 in 23,294 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Novella ranked highest in Indiana in 2025, at #1,162 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Novela are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Novela (5).
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 Novella 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 5 | #1,162 | #1,219 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,239 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,571 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69 | #2,559 | — | — |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 2023 | 64 | #2,726 | — | — |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,917 | — | — |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,324 | — | — |
| 2019 | 66 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,092 | — | — |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,761 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,207 | — | — |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,407 | — | — |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,270 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,442 | — | — |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,210 | — | — |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,668 | — | — |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,242 | — | — |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,024 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,920 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,811 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,255 | — | — |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,853 | — | — |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,109 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,784 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #11,099 | — | — |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,885 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,269 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,265 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,948 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,280 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,937 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,126 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,036 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,534 | — | — |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,183 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,271 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,579 | — | — |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,782 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,091 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,476 | — | — |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,992 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,151 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,643 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,122 | — | — |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,434 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,104 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,844 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,382 | — | — |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 1969 | 30 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,228 | — | — |
| 1967 | 34 | #2,032 | — | — |
| 1966 | 25 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,283 | — | — |
| 1964 | 36 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1963 | 33 | #2,089 | — | — |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,978 | — | — |
| 1961 | 37 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 1960 | 41 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,686 | — | — |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,695 | — | — |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,648 | — | — |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1955 | 51 | #1,416 | — | — |
| 1954 | 57 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,630 | — | — |
| 1951 | 53 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 1950 | 41 | #1,445 | — | — |
| 1949 | 49 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1948 | 60 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1947 | 52 | #1,263 | — | — |
| 1946 | 55 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1945 | 57 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 1944 | 53 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1943 | 58 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1942 | 71 | #935 | — | — |
| 1941 | 74 | #850 | — | — |
| 1940 | 67 | #873 | — | — |
| 1939 | 88 | #726 | — | — |
| 1938 | 78 | #800 | — | — |
| 1937 | 72 | #813 | — | — |
| 1936 | 77 | #775 | — | — |
| 1935 | 69 | #829 | — | — |
| 1934 | 80 | #750 | — | — |
| 1933 | 94 | #676 | — | — |
| 1932 | 108 | #645 | — | — |
| 1931 | 90 | #707 | — | — |
| 1930 | 101 | #688 | — | — |
| 1929 | 111 | #665 | — | — |
| 1928 | 100 | #708 | — | — |
| 1927 | 126 | #641 | — | — |
| 1926 | 118 | #668 | — | — |
| 1925 | 124 | #663 | — | — |
| 1924 | 148 | #618 | — | — |
| 1923 | 186 | #513 | — | — |
| 1922 | 143 | #608 | — | — |
| 1921 | 140 | #623 | — | — |
| 1920 | 118 | #668 | — | — |
| 1919 | 146 | #575 | — | — |
| 1918 | 107 | #695 | — | — |
| 1917 | 123 | #618 | — | — |
| 1916 | 107 | #661 | — | — |
| 1915 | 113 | #621 | — | — |
| 1914 | 88 | #610 | — | — |
| 1913 | 70 | #622 | — | — |
| 1912 | 73 | #565 | — | — |
| 1911 | 63 | #526 | — | — |
| 1910 | 49 | #601 | — | — |
| 1909 | 42 | #605 | — | — |
| 1908 | 42 | #580 | — | — |
| 1907 | 40 | #584 | — | — |
| 1906 | 43 | #537 | — | — |
| 1905 | 47 | #494 | — | — |
| 1904 | 37 | #555 | — | — |
| 1903 | 32 | #586 | — | — |
| 1902 | 20 | #789 | — | — |
| 1901 | 28 | #599 | — | — |
| 1900 | 35 | #599 | — | — |
| 1899 | 19 | #748 | — | — |
| 1898 | 20 | #766 | — | — |
| 1897 | 21 | #695 | — | — |
| 1896 | 21 | #702 | — | — |
| 1895 | 19 | #737 | — | — |
| 1894 | 14 | #839 | — | — |
| 1893 | 12 | #893 | — | — |
| 1892 | 17 | #719 | — | — |
| 1891 | 13 | #780 | — | — |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1889 | 14 | #712 | — | — |
| 1888 | 12 | #782 | — | — |
| 1887 | 8 | #923 | — | — |
| 1886 | 9 | #813 | — | — |
| 1885 | 8 | #832 | — | — |
| 1883 | 6 | #893 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #874 | — | — |
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).