Girls' name · since 2020
Novani
37 babies named Novani in U.S. Social Security records since 2020, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #38,586 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,646 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 37
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Novani is the #14646 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 37 recorded since 2020.
Novani has 37 recorded births among girls since 2020, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #14646 as of the latest data, more common than 15% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2020 to 2025.
- #38,586 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #14,646 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 37 born since 2020
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Novani ranks #38,586 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #14,646 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 37 born since 2020, peaking in the 2020s.
- #38,586 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #14,646 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 37
- born since 2020
- 2020s
- peak decade
Novani's 37 recorded births place it above 46.51% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Novani compares
37 13th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Novani's all-time total is 90% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Novani | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 37 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Novani's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Novani's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 70% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 30%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2020, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2024 peak of 12, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Novani popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–2025
- Peak year (2024)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 6 years of records
Novani by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (37 births, 100% of the file).
2020s was Novani's strongest decade.
37 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 100% of all-time use.
Novani births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2020s
2020s
37 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 37 births (100% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Novani: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2020–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Novani draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.