Noblé
surname · Latin script
Noblé is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English, from Old French noble, from Latin nōbilis (“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”), from nōscere, gnōscere (“to know”).
- UYUruguay1 in 658(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 2K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 3.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 488 (measured from records)
- 1 in 658 (inferred from the name graph)
41,667 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Noble in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 3 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- MiddleEnglish(measured from records)
- Old Frenchnoble(measured from records)
- Latinnōbilis“knowable“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”(measured from records)
- Old Englishæþele(measured from records)
From Middle English, from Old French noble, from Latin nōbilis (“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”), from nōscere, gnōscere (“to know”). Displaced native Middle English athel, from Old English æþele.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Noblé counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #724 | 41,667 | 1 in 8K | 42K | Noble | 488 |
| PH Philippines | #791 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Noble | 86 |
| GB United Kingdom | #352 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 3 | Noble | 255 |
| CA Canada | #500 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 2 | Noble | 212 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Noble | 60 |
| AU Australia | #395 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Noble | 216 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 5,152 | 1 in 658 | 5.2K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 382 | 1 in 2K | 382 | — | 5 |
41,667 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Noblé mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English, from Old French noble, from Latin nōbilis (“knowable, known, well-known, famous, celebrated, high-born, of noble birth, excellent”), from nōscere, gnōscere (“to know”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Noblé have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 42 thousand people named Noblé, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled noble.
- Where is Noblé most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Noblé is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 658 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Noblé?
- In the United States, the national register counted 41,667 people named Noblé in 2010, about 1 in 8.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Noblé compared with other names?
- In the United States, Noblé is the 724th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Noblé” — the 724th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.