Noel

31,994 people in the United States were counted with the surname Noel in the 2020 census, making it the 1,077th most common in the country. That is about one person in 9,342.

By the numbers

People: 31,994
Rank: 1,077th
How common: 1 in 9,342
Per 100,000: 10.7

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Noel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 55.7%
Black, not Hispanic 35.0%
Hispanic or Latino 4.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Noel

Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker (1889–1982)British athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Nerlens Noel (born 1994)American basketball player
Magali Noël (1931–2015)French actress and singer
Sak Noel (born 1983)Spanish DJ and record producer
Evan Noel (1879–1928)Rackets player

People named Noel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Noel

Also a first name

Noel has been given to 67,380 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.