Nolin
Nolin was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,058 among boys’ names; 507 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nolin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nolin?
#8,058 among boys’ names, 2025
Nolin fell from #4,251 in 2015 to #8,058 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.5 to 5.9 per million.
24 babies in 2011, the peak
Nolin peaked in 2011, when 24 boys were given it, #4,178 among boys’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #8,058 | 5.9 |
| 2024 | 15 | #6,101 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,173 | 7.0 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,381 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 19 | #5,058 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,532 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,593 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,475 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,708 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,479 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,251 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,201 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,110 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,552 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,178 | 12.6 |
| 2010 | 17 | #5,408 | 8.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,876 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,349 | 11.3 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,360 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,326 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,771 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,843 | 5.5 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,970 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,141 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,343 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,492 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 10 | #6,367 | 5.2 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,337 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,468 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,872 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,379 | 3.1 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,823 | 2.9 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,062 | 5.4 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,774 | 4.4 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,701 | 4.6 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,033 | 8.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Nolin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nolin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nolin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nolin, and how old are they?
An estimated 476 Americans named Nolin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 462 people named Nolin (24 women and girls, 438 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 399 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% above 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 141,402 babies since 1880, Nolin is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 4,970 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Nolin
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 Nolin and names like it
- Compare Nolin and NolanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNolin peaked in 2011.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Nolin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Nolin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with NMost given first.