Noelle — #215 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Noelle

The Social Security Administration has registered 42,931 babies named Noelle between 1927 and 2024, spanning 98 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Noelle currently holds the #215 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 1,477 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Noelle performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 11,870 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Noelle shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,954 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Noelle in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Noelle 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 42,931 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.