Noela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəwɛɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Noela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country.
- TZTanzania≈1 in 3.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- KEKenya≈1 in 30K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.3Kas Nola
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 Noela 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.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Tanzania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Nola in US United States, AU Australia, NZ New Zealand and 2 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)
weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Noela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #532 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Noela | 19 |
| US United States | — | 12,273as Nola | 1 in 27K | 12K | Nola | 350 |
| AU Australia | #800 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 3 | Nola | 131 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Noela | 17 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Nola | 16 |
| ES Spain | — | 374 | 1 in 134K | 374 | Noela | 43 |
| DK Denmark | — | 331as Nola | 1 in 18K | 331 | Nola | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | #757 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 11 | Nola | 43 |
| AL Albania | — | 215 | 1 in 14K | 215 | Noela | 10 |
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; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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)
Noela is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Longeva, de larga vida
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Giorno della nascita
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Noela Youngb. 1930AUAustralian book illustrator and children's writer
- Noela Hjorthb. 1940AUAustralian artist (1940-2016)
- Noela Blancob. 1981ESSpanish politician
- Gloria Guissoub. 1995BFnot in their usual nameBurkinabe kyokushin
- Noela Luhalab. 2005TZTanzanian female football player
- Noela WilsonNZhuman nutrition researcher in New Zealand
- Noela DaviesAUAustralian nurse
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 62 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 553 | #19,075 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 374 | #5,584 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 357 | #2,663 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 215 | #1,763 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 19 | #5,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #19,075 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 7 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 1945 | 3 | — |
| AU Australia | SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present) | 1971 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Noela mean, and where does it come from?
- weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- What are other forms of the name Noela?
- In the etymology graph, Noelle and Noelene are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Noela?
- A machine transcription gives /nəwɛɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Noela a male or female name?
- Noela is a female 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 Noela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Noela in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled noela.
- How common is the name Noela?
- In Spain, the national register counted 374 people named Noela, about 1 in 134 thousand residents.
- How common is Noela compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Noela is the 532nd most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Noela?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/noelaThe 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, “Noela” — the 532nd most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.