Noli
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A barangay of Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, Philippines
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/noʊɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Noli is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 664K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 71M
- ALAlbania1 in 205K
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)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 205K (inferred from the name graph)
501 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Albania
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A barangay of Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, Philippines.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Noli 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 | — | 501 | 1 in 664K | 364 | Noli | 118 |
| BR Brazil | — | 311 | 1 in 681K | 394 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 16 | 1 in 212K | 100 | — | — |
| AL Albania | — | 15 | 1 in 205K | 8 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 10 | 1 in 1M | 10 | — | 2 |
| PH Philippines | #948 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 71M | 26K | Noli | 73 |
501 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Noli is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, oriundo da cidade setentrional de Noli, de nome talvez latino navalis.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, DERIVATI: Nolasco. 7 Diffuso nella Liguria centrale, é formato dal toponimo Noli: (SV).
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Ghost.
as a nameThe African book of names
In dag, 1. mouth used in idioms for a person’s 2. muzzle (of animal) firm ‘word’ as a settled promise 3. beak (of bird). or command, curse, etc.; 4. yeli noli, to curse opinion, view in a (potential) dispute is nangbani q.v teeku noli ‘edge, brink of the sea; coast’ KO
as a wordDagbani Dictionary CD
In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of nōlō; don't
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Noli Principe Manalangb. 1980PHFilipino hyperrealist painter (born 1980)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 39 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 394 | #16,604 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 364 | #20,564 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 347 | #7,925 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 311 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 262 | #18,583 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 137 | #20,564 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 81 | #25,602 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 1970 | 63 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 49 | #18,583 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 16 | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 10 | #36,108 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Noli?
- A machine transcription gives /noʊɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Noli mean, and where does it come from?
- A barangay of Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, Philippines. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Noli a male or female name?
- Noli is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Noli have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 501 people named Noli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled noli.
- Where is Noli most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Noli is densest in Albania — about 1 in 205 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Noli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 501 people named Noli in 2020, about 1 in 664 thousand residents.
- How common is Noli compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Noli is the 948th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Noli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/noliThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Noli” — the 948th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.