girls:
10 births since 2014
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
3.3k births since 1892
#2162 (53rd percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1892
#4729 (39th percentile)
The name Nolen is the #4,729 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,339 recorded births since 1892. This represents the 38.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,162 (52.8% percentile) for all time with 3,329 births since 1892. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2014.
Nolen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1892 (1892 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Nolen is available in 116 out of the 132 years between 1892 and 2023 (116 years for boys and 2 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 Nolen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 91.2% of babies named Nolen were boys.
For boys, Nolen reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 11.7% percentile (ranked #796) with 52 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 53 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Nolen ranks #864 for boys (5.2% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 53.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Nolen reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #947) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Currently, Nolen is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #947 (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nolen".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Nolen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.0% confident that Nolen is pronounced as NOH-luhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NAH-luhn, at 15.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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