Nolie — girls' name
292 babies named Nolie in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1918. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
29% of everyone ever named Nolie was born in this single decade.
15 babies were named Nolie in 1918 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nolie
The Social Security Administration has registered 292 babies named Nolie between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nolie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 15 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nolie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Nolie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nolie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nolie 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 292 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.
Nolie at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nolie popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1880
- Peak year (1918)
- 15
- Annual births at peak — across 144 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
292 total births across 144 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1918 with 15 births in a single year.
Nolie popularity over time — boys
7 total births recorded since 1914 (Nolie as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Nolie accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Nolie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 85 births that decade — 29% of Nolie's all-time total
Nolie decade highlights
- Peak decade 85 births
- Runner-up 54 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Nolie's strongest decade
85 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Nolie by state
Where Nolie concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | North Carolina | | 15 | 5.1% |
15 of 292 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- North Carolina 5.1% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
North Carolina accounts for 5.1% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.