girls:
634 births since 1945
#5082 (11th percentile)
boys:
88 births since 1966
#4498 (2nd percentile)
overall:
722 births since 1945
#7017 (9th percentile)
The name Noell is the #7,017 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 722 recorded births since 1945. This represents the 9.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,082 (11.1% percentile) for all time with 634 births since 1945. For boys, it ranks #4,498 (1.9% percentile) for all time with 88 births since 1966.
Noell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1945 (1945 for girls and 1966 for boys). Birth data for Noell is available in 61 out of the 78 years between 1945 and 2022 (60 years for girls and 15 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Noell has been given predominantly to girls, with 87.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 41.7% of babies named Noell were girls.
For girls, Noell reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #806) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Noell reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #873) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Noell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Noell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 57.5% confident that Noell is pronounced as noh-EHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NOH-ehl, at 25.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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