Noelle

What Noelle means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Noelle yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #202 vs #705 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Noelle?

US: Rising: up from #252 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1452 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 1,507 girls got the name (#202 that year). First in the US records in 1927.

How common

• About 1 in 1,067 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,871 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in HI (5.13 per 1,000 girls), VT (5.13 per 1,000 girls), DE (4.88 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Noelle is #202 in the US and #705 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Noelle were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Nell128 US · 100 E&W
• Noel157 US
• Nelle33 US · 18 E&W
• Naelle14 US
• Knoelle10 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Noel

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Noelle

Girls

• Colette#316Editor’s note Up from #525 in 2015 to #316 in 2025 in the US
• Rosalie#171“rose”^*
• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Jane#221“God is gracious”^*
• Juliette#110Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #227 in 2015, #110 in 2025
• Eloise#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #254 in 2015, #49 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel

For a brother

• Augustine#545Same root as Austin, meaning “majestic”^*
• Bo#449Swedish, from Old Norse Búi, meaning “dweller, long-time resident”^*
• Julien#709Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #709 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Marcel#730Editor’s note Up from #771 in 2015 to #730 in 2025 in the US
• Joan#984“God is gracious”^*
• Lewis#433Same root as Louis, meaning “loud; famous + battle”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Noelle’s. Rank is US 2025.