Noele
Noele was last recorded in 2013, when 5 babies were given it; 135 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2013 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Noele mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Noele is “a female given name from French, of rare usage, variant of Noelle.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Noele?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,544, in 2013; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1986, the peak
Noele peaked in 1986, when 14 girls were given it, #5,373 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | #18,544 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,550 | 3.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,893 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,401 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,621 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 7 | #11,025 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,876 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,968 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,507 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,373 | 8.2 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 8 | #8,078 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,841 | 4.2 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,599 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,743 | 3.3 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,191 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,699 | 3.4 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,223 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,342 | 3.5 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,328 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Noele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Noele has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 19 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Noele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noele, and how old are they?
An estimated 129 Americans named Noele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 40 years old and half are between 36 and 53. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 302 people named Noele (289 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 130 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 84,006 babies since 1880, Noele is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 2,149 babies recorded by SSA was a Noele (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Noele
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 Noele and names like it
- Compare Noele and NoelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sNoele peaked in 1986.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Noele.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Noele alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with NMost given first.