Norelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Norelle has been given to 136 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 2005, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Norelle, 2023
1 in 663,000
Norelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Norelle?
Norelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,528 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Norelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Norelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Norelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Norelle was born before 2008 — so the typical Norelle is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 40.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 77.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 136
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 40.4% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Norelle 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 2005 (12)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 42.0% average annual change
Spellings of Norelle
Norelle is not the most common spelling — Noelle is, with 46.0% against Norelle's 0.14%.
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.
Norelle around the world
Where Norelle 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 & Wales2024–2025#4,867in 2025
- Canada2005–2005#2,828in 2005
- South Australia1952–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Norelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Norelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Norelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.