Novia
Novia was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,298 among girls’ names; 365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Novia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Novia?
#9,298 among girls’ names, 2025
Novia fell from #7,511 in 2015 to #9,298 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 6.8 per million.
18 babies in 2020, the peak
Novia peaked in 2020, when 18 girls were given it, #6,561 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,298 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,504 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,440 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,915 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,111 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,561 | 11.1 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,971 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,014 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,740 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,277 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,511 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,223 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,843 | 4.6 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,826 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,435 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,267 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,630 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,155 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,436 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,431 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,083 | 4.9 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,833 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,500 | 4.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,443 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,406 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,955 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,180 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,120 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,880 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,918 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,976 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,752 | 4.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,352 | 5.2 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,228 | 2.8 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,067 | 4.4 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,167 | 5.9 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,908 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,141 | 6.2 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,048 | 6.6 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,091 | 9.6 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,771 | 21.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Novia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Novia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Novia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Novia, and how old are they?
An estimated 318 Americans named Novia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 560 people named Novia (555 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 245 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 64,270 babies since 1880, Novia is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 5,197 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Novia
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 Novia and names like it
- Compare Novia and NovaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sNovia peaked in 2020.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Novia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Novia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with NMost given first.