Novis
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Novis has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 1912. 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 1922, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.
Babies named Novis, 1952
1 in 759,000
Novis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Novis over time
In 1952, Novis went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Novis?
Novis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1952, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1952
- 1 in 759,000
- 5 of 3,796,842 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 371,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1952
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 526,355 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Novis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1952 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 526,355 children born in 1952 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Novis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Noviss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Novis was born before 1923 — so the typical Novis is around 102 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 35.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 31.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 5
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (49).
Is Novis 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 1922 (11)
- Years since peak
- 103
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.4% average annual change
Spellings of Novis
Novis is not the most common spelling — Doris is, with 49.4% against Novis's 0.01%.
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 Novis is used
Across 1910–2025, Novis was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 533,953 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 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. Novis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Novis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Novis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Novis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.