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Noela

Girls' name

Feminine form of Noël

Noela has been given to 244 babies in the U.S. since 1920. 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 2002, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Noela, 2024

1 in 478,000

Noela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Noela: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Noël

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Noela means

Noela is a feminine form of Noël.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Noela is used in Galician.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Noël.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 244 girls were recorded with the name Noela between 1920 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2002; its best national rank was #4,013 in 1942.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Noela?

Noela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 231,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Noela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Noela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Noelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Noela was born before 2008 — so the typical Noela is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
200
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (77).

Is Noela 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2002 (12)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,013
1942

Spellings of Noela

Noela is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 37.6% against Noela'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.

Noela around the world

Where Noela 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
    2006–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1900–2024
    #4,430
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2019–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1945–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Noela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,013
1942
Peak year
2002
12 that year
First recorded
1920
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
244
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Noela

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

NoeliNoelieNoellyNoelyStelaNyelaZaelaYselaRaelaCielaMielaHeelaNoemieTaelaNoeleMaelaAmelaNoemyNoellieBaelaSeelaNoeMeelaNaela

Sibling names for Noela

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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