Novelle
Novelle was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,465 among girls’ names; 170 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Novelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Novelle?
#14,465 among girls’ names, 2025
Novelle fell from #12,702 in 2015 to #14,465 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
9 babies in 2012, the peak
Novelle peaked in 2012, when 9 girls were given it, #11,979 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,465 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,966 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,905 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,879 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,491 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,728 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,702 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,771 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,019 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,979 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | #16,923 | 3.2 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,533 | 3.0 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,166 | 5.7 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,415 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,608 | 7.2 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,779 | 6.7 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,816 | 4.9 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,263 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,334 | 5.7 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,290 | 5.8 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,654 | 5.3 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,676 | 5.2 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,826 | 6.7 |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,122 | 6.1 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,497 | 7.9 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,310 | 9.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Novelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Novelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Novelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Novelle, and how old are they?
An estimated 81 Americans named Novelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 177 people named Novelle (135 women and girls, 42 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 63 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 11,817 babies since 1880, Novelle is the fourth most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 406 babies (1.5%), 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.
More about Novelle and names like it
- Compare Novelle and NovellaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sNovelle peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Novelle since 1910.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Novelle.
- Names starting with NMost given first.