Noelani
Noelani was given to 109 girls in 2025, #1,842 among girls’ names; 3,661 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,610 Americans named Noelani and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noelani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Noelani mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Noelani is “a female given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the senses “mist” (noe) and “sky” (lani) and “heavenly mist” (=).
From noe (“mist”) + lani (“sky”) = “heavenly mist”.
/no.eˈla.ni/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Noelani?
#1,842 among girls’ names, 2025
Noelani rose from #2,370 in 2015 to #1,842 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 43.7 to 67.8 per million.
146 babies in 2006, the peak
Noelani peaked in 2006, when 146 girls were given it, #1,513 among girls’ names. The 109 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 109 | #1,842 | 67.8 |
| 2024 | 125 | #1,655 | 77.2 |
| 2023 | 126 | #1,652 | 78.5 |
| 2022 | 137 | #1,559 | 83.5 |
| 2021 | 123 | #1,692 | 75.0 |
| 2020 | 110 | #1,804 | 68.0 |
| 2019 | 125 | #1,682 | 74.5 |
| 2018 | 117 | #1,758 | 68.8 |
| 2017 | 110 | #1,859 | 63.7 |
| 2016 | 89 | #2,185 | 50.2 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 78 | #2,370 | 43.7 |
| 2014 | 91 | #2,125 | 50.9 |
| 2013 | 111 | #1,833 | 63.3 |
| 2012 | 116 | #1,778 | 65.9 |
| 2011 | 128 | #1,664 | 72.8 |
| 2010 | 90 | #2,182 | 50.6 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,058 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 127 | #1,753 | 67.2 |
| 2007 | 131 | #1,687 | 68.1 |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,513 | 76.8 |
| 2005 | 138 | #1,512 | 74.7 |
| 2004 | 122 | #1,604 | 66.4 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,665 | 63.5 |
| 2002 | 76 | #2,192 | 42.3 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,226 | 40.5 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,266 | 38.0 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,393 | 35.0 |
| 1998 | 53 | #2,599 | 30.0 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,920 | 24.1 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,545 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,915 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,019 | 21.8 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,742 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,711 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,860 | 21.9 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,971 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,855 | 14.1 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,787 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,939 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,145 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,394 | 10.5 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,277 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,821 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 12 | #5,791 | 7.1 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,702 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,950 | 12.0 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,999 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,445 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,573 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,914 | 11.6 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,292 | 10.3 |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,380 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,345 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,342 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,022 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,976 | 6.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,335 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,779 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,566 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,306 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,485 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,248 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,914 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Noelani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Noelani has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Noelani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noelani, and how old are they?
3,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,661 Americans ever recorded as Noelani. The median Noelani alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 2,588 people named Noelani (2,571 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,923 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 170 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 413 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,570 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,440 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Noelani born?
The states with the most babies named Noelani are California, Texas and Illinois, with 74% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 19 | #1,307 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 8 | #2,576 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,203 | 0.2× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,081 | 0.7× |
| Washington | 6 | #1,015 | 0.8× |
Where Noelani is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Noelani is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1958 it was given 27.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Noelani with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,216 babies since 1880, Noelani is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 109 of their 152 babies (72%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Noelani
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Noelani and names like it
- Compare Noelani and NohealaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNoelani peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Noelani since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Noelani: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Noelani.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Noelani alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.