Nolle
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Nolle is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Philippines it is the 90th most common given name. Recorded meaning: topographic name from Middle High German nol, nel(le) ‘peak’, ‘summit’, also the name from several streams so named in Westphalia.
- SESweden1 in 1.1Kas Noel(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.4Kas Noëlle
- USUnited States1 in 5.4Kas Noel
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nolle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 522 (measured from records)
- 1 in 604 (inferred from the name graph)
61,698 named Noel, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hungary, as Noel
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Noel in US United States, PH Philippines, SE Sweden, Noelle in FR France, NL Netherlands, AL Albania and Neill in BR Brazil.
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)
topographic name from Middle High German nol, nel(le) ‘peak’, ‘summit’, also the name from several streams so named in Westphalia.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nolle 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 | #529 | 61,698as Noel | 1 in 5.4K | 49K | Noel | 522 |
| HU Hungary | — | 16,169as Noel | 1 in 604 | 16K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 15,301as Noel | 1 in 14K | 19K | Neill | 24 |
| FR France | #434 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | 52K | Noelle | 272 |
| SE Sweden | #613 | 8,880as Noel | 1 in 1.1K | 8.9K | Noel | 69 |
| FI Finland | — | 5,184as Noel | 1 in 1.1K | 5.5K | — | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | #784 | 5,146as Noëlle | 1 in 3.4K | 5.1K | Noelle | 67 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,269as Noel | 1 in 941 | 3.2K | Noelle | 3 |
| PH Philippines | #90 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Noel | 163 |
61,698 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); 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)
Nolle 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 German, habitational name from the Nolle district in Westphalia.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, Variante zu Nolte/Nold; patronymische Kurzform mit lt/ld > l; 362 Belege.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, Familienname aus dem Rufnamen Arnold; 362 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
In German, 5. French (Nolle): variant of Nolet.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Latin, present active infinitive of nōlō
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)
- Heinrich Nolliusb. 1582DEnot in their usual namenaturalist
- Karl Nolleb. 1945DEGerman entrepreneur and politician, member of the Social Democratic Party and the Landtag of Saxony (b.1945)
- Kristen Clements-NolleUSepidemiologist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 29 | #9,318 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 19 | #20,122 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2 | #59,757 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What does the name Nolle mean, and where does it come from?
- topographic name from Middle High German nol, nel(le) ‘peak’, ‘summit’, also the name from several streams so named in Westphalia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Nolle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 62 thousand people named Noel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Nolle most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Nolle itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Hungary's: the national register counts about 1 in 604 people named Noel.
- How common is the name Nolle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 61,698 people named Noel in 2020, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Nolle compared with other names?
- In the United States, Nolle is the 529th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nolleThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nolle” — the 529th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.