Noelia
Noelia was given to 156 girls in 2025, #1,405 among girls’ names; 7,655 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,360 Americans named Noelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Noelia mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Noelia is “a female given name, equivalent to English Noelle or French Noëlle”
/noˈelja/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Noelia?
#1,405 among girls’ names, 2025
Noelia rose from #1,592 in 2015 to #1,405 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 76.2 to 97.1 per million.
340 babies in 2006, the peak
Noelia peaked in 2006, when 340 girls were given it, #807 among girls’ names. The 156 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 156 | #1,405 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 149 | #1,470 | 0.09 |
| 2023 | 157 | #1,427 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 132 | #1,610 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 121 | #1,716 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 131 | #1,602 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 124 | #1,694 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 120 | #1,725 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 130 | #1,664 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 161 | #1,437 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 136 | #1,592 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,683 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 132 | #1,628 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 135 | #1,609 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 151 | #1,487 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 162 | #1,417 | 0.09 |
| 2009 | 204 | #1,225 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 232 | #1,116 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 319 | #879 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 340 | #807 | 0.18 |
| 2005 | 231 | #1,038 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 269 | #902 | 0.15 |
| 2003 | 313 | #790 | 0.17 |
| 2002 | 257 | #880 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 333 | #729 | 0.18 |
| 2000 | 293 | #784 | 0.16 |
| 1999 | 314 | #719 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,059 | 0.04 |
| 1997 | 52 | #2,498 | 0.03 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,880 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 42 | #2,862 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,754 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 60 | #2,207 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,712 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 56 | #2,310 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 49 | #2,477 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 41 | #2,749 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,174 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,473 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,255 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,389 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,657 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,984 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 59 | #1,846 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,800 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 65 | #1,730 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 43 | #2,263 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 43 | #2,179 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,154 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 48 | #1,902 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,829 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,870 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 42 | #1,967 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,016 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 38 | #2,157 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 54 | #1,714 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,242 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,522 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 35 | #1,997 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,690 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 52 | #1,557 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 51 | #1,604 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 44 | #1,745 | 0.02 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,643 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,827 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 31 | #2,077 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 46 | #1,607 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 48 | #1,552 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,791 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 30 | #1,858 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,377 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,487 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,684 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,169 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,739 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,596 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,597 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,262 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,991 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,218 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,309 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,163 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Noelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Noelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 86 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Noelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noelia, and how old are they?
7,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 7,655 Americans ever recorded as Noelia. The median Noelia alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 10,088 people named Noelia (10,073 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,633 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 24 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 547 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 655 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 734 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,640 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,760 |
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 Noelia born?
The states with the most babies named Noelia are Texas, California and Florida, with 62% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 29 | #1,000 | 2.7× |
| California | 27 | #1,017 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,310 | 1.1× |
| New York | 9 | #1,488 | 1.3× |
| Washington | 8 | #792 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,244 | 0.5× |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,004 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,134 | 0.8× |
| Utah | 5 | #802 | 0.2× |
Where Noelia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Noelia is most over-represented in Texas: since 1934 it was given 2.7 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 Noelia 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 83,998 babies since 1880, Noelia is the third most given (9.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 156 of their 2,152 babies (7.2%), again the third 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 Noelia
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 Noelia and names like it
- Compare Noelia and NoelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sNoelia peaked in 2006.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Noelia since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Noelia: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Noelia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Noelia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.