Narelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Narelle has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 1987. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2006, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Narelle, 2018
1 in 703,000
Narelle over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Narelle?
Narelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2018
- 1 in 703,000
- 5 of 3,516,853 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 340,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2018
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 487,541 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Narelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 487,541 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Narelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Narelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Narelle was born before 2006 — so the typical Narelle is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 60.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 78.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 28
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 60.7% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Narelle 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2006 (9)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Narelle
Narelle is not the most common spelling — Janelle is, with 29.9% against Narelle'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.
Narelle around the world
Where Narelle 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 & Wales1997–2018#5,666in 2018
- Scotland1991–1991#634in 1991
- South Australia1945–2013#818in 2013
- New South Wales1952–1974#87in 1974
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Consumer and Business Services (South Australia) and NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA, NSW BDM data under CC BY 4.0.
Narelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Narelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Narelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.