Noel — #434 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Noel

The Social Security Administration has registered 51,456 babies named Noel between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Noel currently holds the #434 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 901 babies received it in a single year. Noel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 15,120 additional births since 1909.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Noel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,612 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Noel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 8,351 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Noel in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Noel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 51,456 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.