November
November was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,957 among girls’ names; 1,004 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of November by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does November mean?
Wiktionary, English section
November is “a female given name.” Its etymology gives the senses “ninth month” (November) and “nine” (*h₁néwn̥).
From Middle English Novembre, from Old French novembre, from Latin November (“ninth month”), from Latin novem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix. November was the ninth month in the Roman calendar. Displaced native Old English blōtmōnaþ (literally “sacrifice month”), so called because the Anglo-Saxons, when they were pagans, would sacrifice in this month before the winter set in.
/noʊˈvɛmbɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is November?
#3,957 among girls’ names, 2025
November rose from #5,084 in 2015 to #3,957 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 15.1 to 23.0 per million.
56 babies in 2020, the peak
November peaked in 2020, when 56 girls were given it, #2,923 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 66% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,957 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,561 | 27.2 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,696 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,637 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,540 | 26.8 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,923 | 34.6 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,772 | 23.8 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,192 | 30.0 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,679 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,314 | 27.7 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,084 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 32 | #4,523 | 17.9 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,505 | 25.6 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,455 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,782 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,139 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,667 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,504 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,021 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,067 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 17 | #7,063 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,300 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,498 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,675 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,884 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,405 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,078 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,088 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,211 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,021 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,405 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,597 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,856 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,532 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,537 | 2.6 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,971 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,076 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,905 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,687 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,123 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,705 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,069 | 5.5 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,404 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,193 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,187 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,032 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is November a boy’s or a girl’s name?
November has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named November: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named November, and how old are they?
An estimated 992 Americans named November and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 722 people named November (690 women and girls, 32 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 744 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as November
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.
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