Naol

#13,305 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Naol has been given to 147 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #13,305 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Naol, 2025

1 in 663,000

Naol over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Naol?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#13,305
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Naol sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Naol. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Naols were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Naol was born before 2017 — so the typical Naol is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
59.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
147
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 59.2% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Naol rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−5,164
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,912
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,022
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.4%
Peak was 2020 (17)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,393
2020

Spellings of Naol

Naol is not the most common spelling — Paul is, with 48.5% against Naol's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Naol around the world

Where Naol ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2023–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Naol by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,305
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,912
Best rank ever
#5,393
2020
Peak year
2020
17 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
147
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Naol

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Sibling names for Naol

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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