Nolyn
Nolyn is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 19 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,218 among girls’ names and #5,150 among boys’, #7,690 among all names counting both); 979 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nolyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Nolyn?
#5,150 among boys’ names, 2025
Nolyn fell from #3,204 in 2015 to #5,150 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 18.8 to 11.1 per million.
67 babies in 2019, the peak
Nolyn peaked in 2019, when 67 babies were given it (53 boys, #2,515 among boys’ names). The 32 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,218 | 19 | #5,150 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,871 | 31 | #3,665 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,437 | 23 | #4,567 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,993 | 40 | #3,085 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,901 | 42 | #2,952 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,076 | 46 | #2,717 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,035 | 53 | #2,515 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,639 | 32 | #3,494 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,772 | 27 | #3,947 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,744 | 34 | #3,341 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,322 | 36 | #3,204 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,505 | 37 | #3,071 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,223 | 33 | #3,320 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,977 | 51 | #2,472 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,816 | 29 | #3,670 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 39 | #2,993 | |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,807 | 38 | #3,089 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,973 | 24 | #4,227 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,585 | 30 | #3,570 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 30 | #3,502 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,432 | 25 | #3,786 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 27 | #3,511 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 21 | #4,066 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #8,224 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 12 | #5,912 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #7,967 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #8,191 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Nolyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 979 Americans recorded as Nolyn, 18% are girls and 82% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Nolyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nolyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 970 Americans named Nolyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 716 people named Nolyn (156 women and girls, 560 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 725 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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, Nolyn is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 4,970 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Nolyn
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 Nolyn and names like it
- Compare Nolyn and NolanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNolyn peaked in 2019.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nolyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Nolyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Nolyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.