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Noele

Girls' name

Variant of Noelle

Noele has been given to 135 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1986, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Noele, 2013

1 in 729,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Noele: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Noelle

French

What Noele means

Noele is a variant of Noelle.

Origin, language, and formation

Noele is used in English. Its origins include French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Noelle.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 135 girls were recorded with the name Noele between 1964 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1986; its best national rank was #4,223 in 1967.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Noele?

Noele had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 729,000
5 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 351,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
505,435 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Noele 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 2013 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 505,435 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Noele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Noeles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Noele was born before 1986 — so the typical Noele is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
41.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
135
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 41.5% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Noele 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (14)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,223
1967

Spellings of Noele

Noele is not the most common spelling — Noelle is, with 18.3% against Noele's 0.06%.

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.

Noele around the world

Where Noele 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.

  • France
    1900–1982
    #2,996
    in 1982

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Noele 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,223
1967
Peak year
1986
14 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
135
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Noele

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

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Sibling names for Noele

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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