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November

#3,957 in 2025Girls' name

Ninth month

November has been given to 1,004 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #3,957 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 56 recorded.

Babies named November, 2025

1 in 89,600

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

November: meaning, origin, and history

Ninth month

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What November means

November means “ninth month”, associated with November.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Middle English Novembre, from Old French novembre, from Latin November (“ninth month”), from Latin novem, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”); + Latin -ber, from -bris, an adjectival suffix. November was the ninth month in the Roman calendar. Displaced native Old English blōtmōnaþ (literally “sacrifice month”), so called because the Anglo-Saxons, when they were pagans, would sacrifice in this month before the winter set in.

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Origin, language, and formation

November is used in English.

November comes through Middle English Novembre, Old French novembre, Latin November, Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ and Latin -ber.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, November is pronounced /noʊˈvɛmbɚ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,004 girls were recorded with the name November between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 2020; its best national rank was #2,923 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,923 in 2020 to #3,957 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,084 in 2015 to #3,957 in 2025.

How common is November?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,957
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where November 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another November. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Novembers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as November was born before 2014 — so the typical November is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
36.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
79.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,004
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 36.6% of all recorded uses (367).

Is November 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
−396
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,034
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,127
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.37×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
66.1%
Peak was 2020 (56)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,923
2020

Where November is used

Across 1910–2025, November was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,023,878 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Indiana1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Tennessee1 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. November has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

November around the world

Where November 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.

  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

November by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,957
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,034
Best rank ever
#2,923
2020
Peak year
2020
56 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,004
Count in 2025
37

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

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Sibling names for November

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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