Nobel
#6,702 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Nobel has been given to 276 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #6,702 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Nobel, 2025
1 in 255,000
Nobel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Nobel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 131,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,702
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Nobel sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nobel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Nobels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Nobel was born before 2013 — so the typical Nobel is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 36.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 236
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (100).
Is Nobel 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
- +1,450
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +662
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +694
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.18×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 92.9%
- Peak was 2021 (14)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 25.3% average annual change
Spellings of Nobel
Nobel is not the most common spelling — Joel is, with 55.0% against Nobel's 0.05%.
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.
Nobel around the world
Where Nobel 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 & Wales2007–2020#4,608in 2020
- France2011–2011#5,365in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Nobel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Nobel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Nobel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.