Noell — unisex name

What the Data Says About Noell

The Social Security Administration has registered 634 babies named Noell between 1945 and 2022, spanning 78 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Noell currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 1967, when 21 babies received it in a single year. Noell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 88 additional births since 1966.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Noell performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 150 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Noell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Noell in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Noell 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 634 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.