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Noe vs Noelia

American parents have registered 23,930 Noes since 1880, against 7,655 Noelias. Noe is still ahead, with 355 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Noe against Noelia, 1880 to 2025 0 200 400 600 800 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Noe Noelia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Noe has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Noe had 461 and Noelia had 314.

Side by side

  Noe Noelia
Total US births 23,9307,655
Most in one year 646340
Babies in 2025 355156
Estimated living today 22,0007,400
Median age today 2421
Peak year 20072006
Best rank 441st boys806th girls
Rank in 2025 754th1,396th
First recorded 19141934
Girls / boys 436 / 23,4947,655 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Noes alive today are over 24; half the Noelias are over 21. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Noe Noelia
France 54,775 Noé2,560
Switzerland 4,232 Noé1,662
Belgium 3,809 Noé235 Noélia
Italy 257606
Poland 337241
England and Wales 165125

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Noe and Noelia.