Novie — #5960 US girls' name
360 babies named Novie in U.S. Social Security records since 1898, with the highest year being 1915. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 66% of names given to girls today.
29% of everyone ever named Novie was born in this single decade.
20 babies were named Novie in 1915 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Novie
The Social Security Administration has registered 360 babies named Novie between 1898 and 2024, spanning 127 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Novie currently holds the #5960 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 20 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Novie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 104 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Novie shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 21 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Novie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Novie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 360 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Novie at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Novie popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1898
- Peak year (1915)
- 20
- Annual births at peak — across 127 years of records
Currently ranks #5960 among girls.
360 total births across 127 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1915 with 20 births in a single year.
Novie popularity over time — boys
6 total births recorded since 1923 (Novie as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Novie accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Novie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 104 births that decade — 29% of Novie's all-time total
Novie decade highlights
- Peak decade 104 births
- Runner-up 82 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Novie's strongest decade
104 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Novie by state
Where Novie concentrates geographically — total births since 1898
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 21 | 5.8% |
21 of 360 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 5.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 5.8% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1898–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.