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Noella

#1,975 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Noella has been given to 3,215 babies in the U.S. since 1900. In 2025 it ranked #1,975 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 147 recorded.

Babies named Noella, 2025

1 in 33,800

Noella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Noella: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Noella means

Noella is a given name.

The naming story behind Noella

Wikidata records Noella as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q1218415, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,215 girls were recorded with the name Noella between 1900 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 147 in 2018; its best national rank was #1,279 in 1915.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,902 in 2020 to #1,975 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,071 in 2015 to #1,975 in 2025.

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 Noella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 33,800
98 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,975
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Noella 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 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Noella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Noellas were born

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

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,393
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (896).

Is Noella 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
−95
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−73
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+96
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.7%
Peak was 2018 (147)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,279
1915

Spellings of Noella

Noella is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 34.1% against Noella's 0.31%.

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.

Where Noella is used

Across 2016–2025, Noella was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 19,516 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

211 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 9,091
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 9,091
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 10,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 11,111
  5. 5Florida1 in 12,500
  6. 6New York1 in 14,286
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 14,286
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 16,667

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Noella around the world

Where Noella 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
    2000–2025
    #2,278
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2024–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    1967–1967
    #393
    in 1967
  • France
    1900–2025
    #2,778
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #1,469
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2004
    #700
    in 2004

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

Notable people named Noella

People whose public names include Noella, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Noella in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Noella. Linked forms have their own page here.

NoelaNoeliNoeliaNoelleNoellie

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Noella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,975
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 73
Best rank ever
#1,279
1915
Peak year
2018
147 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,215
Count in 2025
98

Names similar to Noella

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

NoeliaNoelaniNoemyJoellaOzellaNoemieAdellaIdellaKamillaMirellaArdellaAngellaRillaNoelyNellaCallaLillaAbellaVellaMillaNoeliJanellaDonellaOdella

Names with a curve like Noella

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Noella, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Noella

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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