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Noella

The girl's name Noella has been in the national records since 1900, with 3,215 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,962nd. About 2,500 Noellas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Noella

By the numbers

Total US births
3,215
Estimated living today
2,500
Median age today
11
Peak year
2018
Best rank
1,488th
Rank in 2025
1,962nd
First recorded
1900

How old the living Noellas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,215 babies given the name since 1900, about 2,500 are alive — 76 in every hundred. Roughly 1,600 of them are children and 300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Noella is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Noella is most concentrated in Maine (16.8×), Rhode Island (9.7×), Massachusetts (7.3×), Florida (2.2×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2018

The most popular girls’ names the year Noella peaked:

All the names of 2018

Noella elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France girls Noella +2 spellings 7,220 208th
England and Wales girls Noella 175 1,326th
Belgium girls Noëlla +1 spelling 23 743rd
Ireland girls Noella 3 393rd
Scotland girls Noella 3 790th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Noella: rank by region

In 2025, Noella was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Noëlla 753 6

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Noella among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland girls Noella 31 54

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Noella against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.