girls:
41.5k births since 1927
#662 (88th percentile)
boys:
108 births since 1977
#4478 (2nd percentile)
overall:
41.6k births since 1927
#1213 (84th percentile)
The name Noelle is the #1,213 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,592 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 84.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #662 (88.4% percentile) for all time with 41,484 births since 1927. For boys, it ranks #4,478 (2.3% percentile) for all time with 108 births since 1977.
Noelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (1927 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Noelle is available in 94 out of the 97 years between 1927 and 2023 (94 years for girls and 16 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 Noelle has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Noelle reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 79.4% percentile (ranked #194) with 823 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 830 births per million (ranked 79.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2008, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Noelle is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #198 (79.2% percentile) with 830 births per million.
For boys, Noelle reached its peak popularity in 2017, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #909) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2017, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% 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 "Noelle".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Noelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.5% confident that Noelle is pronounced as noh-EHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NOH-ehl, at 9.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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