Novelle
#14,465 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Novelle has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #14,465 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2012, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Novelle, 2025
1 in 553,000
Novelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Novelle?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,465
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Novelle 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Novelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Novelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Novelle was born before 1930 — so the typical Novelle is around 95 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 25.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 79
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (43).
Is Novelle 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,414
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,763
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.75×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 66.7%
- Peak was 2012 (9)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 27.1% average annual change
Spellings of Novelle
Novelle is not the most common spelling — Noelle is, with 44.2% against Novelle's 0.17%.
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 Novelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Novelle was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,012,317 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Novelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Novelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Novelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Novelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.