Noel

girls:

15k births since 1909

#1247 (78th percentile)

boys:

50.7k births since 1880

#496 (89th percentile)

overall:

65.7k births since 1880

#908 (88th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Noel".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
14,967
Peak Births
336
Peak Year
1987
First Recorded
1909
Peak Percentile
38.8%
Current Percentile
17.4%
Peak Rank
#388
Current Rank
#782
Female statistics
Total Births
50,721
Peak Births
900
Peak Year
2014
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
61.9%
Current Percentile
54.9%
Peak Rank
#178
Current Rank
#411
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Noel

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Noel. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 51.2% confident that Noel is pronounced as noh-EHL. The next most likely pronunciation is NOH-ehl, at 41.5% confidence.

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51.2%
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noh-EHL (2 syllables)
Verified
51.2% confidence
N OW0 EH1 L
NOH-ehl (2 syllables)
41.5% confidence
N OW1 EH0 L
NOH-EHL (2 syllables)
7.3% confidence
N OW1 EH1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Noel. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Noel, please vote using the thumbs up button.

NUE-ehl (2 syllables)
3 names 3.5k births
N UW1 EH0 L
NUE-uhl (2 syllables)
3 names 3.5k births
N UW1 AH0 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like N OW0 EH1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.