Noelle
Noelle was given to 1,507 girls in 2025, #202 among girls’ names; 44,572 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 43,400 Americans named Noelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Noelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Noelle mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Noelle is “a female given name from French, often given to girls born near Christmas.”
From French Noëlle, the feminine form of the male given name Noël.
/ˈnəʊəl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Noelle?
#202 among girls’ names, 2025
Noelle rose from #252 in 2015 to #202 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.72 to 0.94 per 1,000.
1,507 babies in 2025, the peak
Noelle peaked in 2025, when 1,507 girls were given it, #202 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 1,444 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,507 | #202 | 0.94 |
| 2024 | 1,444 | #213 | 0.89 |
| 2023 | 1,457 | #206 | 0.91 |
| 2022 | 1,393 | #210 | 0.85 |
| 2021 | 1,479 | #202 | 0.90 |
| 2020 | 1,373 | #210 | 0.85 |
| 2019 | 1,401 | #221 | 0.83 |
| 2018 | 1,383 | #229 | 0.81 |
| 2017 | 1,347 | #238 | 0.78 |
| 2016 | 1,270 | #249 | 0.72 |
Every recorded year (96)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,284 | #252 | 0.72 |
| 2014 | 1,294 | #250 | 0.72 |
| 2013 | 1,083 | #294 | 0.62 |
| 2012 | 1,028 | #314 | 0.58 |
| 2011 | 906 | #358 | 0.52 |
| 2010 | 876 | #366 | 0.49 |
| 2009 | 742 | #431 | 0.40 |
| 2008 | 725 | #441 | 0.38 |
| 2007 | 650 | #499 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 694 | #455 | 0.37 |
| 2005 | 653 | #468 | 0.35 |
| 2004 | 686 | #445 | 0.37 |
| 2003 | 750 | #403 | 0.41 |
| 2002 | 727 | #401 | 0.40 |
| 2001 | 639 | #435 | 0.35 |
| 2000 | 710 | #403 | 0.39 |
| 1999 | 635 | #434 | 0.36 |
| 1998 | 678 | #404 | 0.38 |
| 1997 | 724 | #374 | 0.42 |
| 1996 | 624 | #413 | 0.36 |
| 1995 | 569 | #452 | 0.32 |
| 1994 | 547 | #463 | 0.31 |
| 1993 | 543 | #463 | 0.30 |
| 1992 | 552 | #451 | 0.30 |
| 1991 | 582 | #437 | 0.31 |
| 1990 | 530 | #459 | 0.28 |
| 1989 | 513 | #470 | 0.28 |
| 1988 | 579 | #409 | 0.33 |
| 1987 | 581 | #397 | 0.33 |
| 1986 | 441 | #486 | 0.26 |
| 1985 | 493 | #444 | 0.29 |
| 1984 | 441 | #470 | 0.26 |
| 1983 | 404 | #486 | 0.24 |
| 1982 | 312 | #585 | 0.18 |
| 1981 | 374 | #523 | 0.22 |
| 1980 | 446 | #474 | 0.27 |
| 1979 | 457 | #448 | 0.28 |
| 1978 | 436 | #455 | 0.28 |
| 1977 | 445 | #449 | 0.29 |
| 1976 | 322 | #542 | 0.22 |
| 1975 | 311 | #550 | 0.21 |
| 1974 | 247 | #629 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 244 | #626 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 272 | #589 | 0.18 |
| 1971 | 343 | #535 | 0.21 |
| 1970 | 424 | #477 | 0.24 |
| 1969 | 442 | #461 | 0.26 |
| 1968 | 454 | #450 | 0.28 |
| 1967 | 422 | #461 | 0.26 |
| 1966 | 354 | #498 | 0.21 |
| 1965 | 227 | #652 | 0.13 |
| 1964 | 178 | #774 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 103 | #1,063 | 0.05 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,699 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 48 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,913 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,843 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 56 | #1,429 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,331 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,991 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 38 | #1,684 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,171 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,486 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,383 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 16 | #2,664 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 25 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,193 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,846 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 41 | #1,478 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,842 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 25 | #1,691 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,953 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,321 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,180 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,351 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,537 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,691 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 8 | #3,380 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,885 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,816 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,095 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,789 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,096 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,212 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,948 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,388 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Noelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Noelle has been given almost only to girls: 115 boys in 96 years of records.
Girls and boys named Noelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Noelle, and how old are they?
43,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 44,572 Americans ever recorded as Noelle. The median Noelle alive today is 18 years old; half are between 8 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 34,332 people named Noelle (34,148 women and girls, 184 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 35,438 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 69 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 659 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,440 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7,890 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 11,700 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17,700 |
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 Noelle born?
The states with the most babies named Noelle are California, Texas and Florida, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 163 | #206 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 100 | #345 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 79 | #242 | 0.8× |
| New York | 78 | #222 | 1.2× |
| Ohio | 70 | #159 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 70 | #103 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 69 | #117 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 67 | #169 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 55 | #186 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 51 | #214 | 0.7× |
Where Noelle is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Noelle is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1927 it was given 1.6 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 Noelle 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 124,840 babies since 1880, Noelle is the second most given (36% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,507 of their 2,611 babies (58%), the most given that year.
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 Noelle
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 Noelle and names like it
- Compare Noelle and NoelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNoelle peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Noelle since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Noelle: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Noelle.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Noelle alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.