Novalee

What Novalee means

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

Editor’s note 261 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Novalee?

US: Rising: up from #1146 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 379 girls got the name (#742 that year). First in the US records in 1962.

How common

• About 1 in 6,158 baby girls in the US 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 WV (0.99 per 1,000 girls), KY (0.52 per 1,000 girls), AR (0.47 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Novalee is #975 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 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 Novalee were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Novali11 US
• Novaly8 US
• Novalei6 US
• Nova-Lee0 US · 5 E&W

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

If you like Novalee

Girls

• Ximena#183Basque, meaning “son”^*
• Kaia#193Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #447 in 2015, #193 in 2025
• Leila#259Editor’s note Steady in the US: #247 in 2015 and #259 in 2025
• Layla#36Editor’s note Down from #30 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US
• Emersyn#138Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #138 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Piper#155Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #67 in 2015, #155 in 2025

For a brother

• Zayden#213Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 2000, with 11 babies
• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*
• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Sebastian#16“august, venerable, exalted”^*
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Novalee’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.