girls:
506 births since 1911
#5210 (9th percentile)
boys:
125.7k births since 1881
#261 (94th percentile)
overall:
126.2k births since 1881
#586 (92nd percentile)
The name Nolan is the #586 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 126,213 recorded births since 1881. This represents the 92.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #261 (94.3% percentile) for all time with 125,707 births since 1881. For girls, it ranks #5,210 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 506 births since 1911.
Nolan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1881 (1881 for boys and 1911 for girls). Birth data for Nolan is available in 137 out of the 143 years between 1881 and 2023 (137 years for boys and 36 years for girls). 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 Nolan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Nolan reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 94.1% percentile (ranked #55) with 2,792 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 2,894 births per million (ranked 93.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nolan is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #55 (94.1% percentile) with 2,792 births per million.
For girls, Nolan reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #914) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Nolan ranks #920 for girls (2.9% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 93.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nolan".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Nolan is pronounced as NOH-luhn, which has 2 syllables.
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