Noelle
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Noelle is a given name 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. In English, recorded as French feminine form of Noel, 'Christmas'.
- NLNetherlands1 in 3.4K(measured from records)
- FRFrance≈1 in 5.9K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 60K
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 Noelle 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 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
61,698 named Noel, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Noel in US United States, PH Philippines, SE Sweden 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)
French for ‘Christmas’; feminine form of Noel. Also related to the feminine Irish name Nollaig.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
How Noelle is read(measured from records)
Noelle is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English59%
French feminine form of Noel, 'Christmas'
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French; feminine form of Noel, from Latin for Christmas/born at Christmas.
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A female given name from French, often given to girls born near Christmas.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French29%
Féminin de Noël, du latin natalis (« naissance »); prénom de la Nativité, fête de Noël.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Noelle 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 | 5,146 | 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)
Noelle is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, French for ‘Christmas’; feminine form of Noel. Also related to the feminine Irish name Nollaig.
as a nameIrish first names
In Swedish, Noelle är en femininform till → Noel. Även variantformerna Noella och Noela finns.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Noelle Middletonb. 1926IEIrish actress
- Ghislaine Maxwellb. 1961GBnot in their usual nameBritish socialite and sex trafficker, daughter of Robert Maxwell, accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein
- Noelle Beckb. 1968USAmerican actress
- Ms. Lauryn Hillb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and rapper (born 1975)
- Katie Holmesb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1978)
- Kayla Ewellb. 1985USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Noelle Quinnb. 1985USAmerican basketball player and coach
- Noelle Eastonb. 1994USAmerican pornographic actress
- Noelle Maritzb. 1995USSwiss footballer
- Noelle Gentileactress
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 77 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 302 | #69,958 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 289 | #68,122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 255 | #71,372 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 14 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- Is Noelle a male or female name?
- Noelle 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.
- What does the name Noelle mean?
- In English, French feminine form of Noel, 'Christmas'
- Where does the name Noelle come from?
- French for ‘Christmas’; feminine form of Noel. Also related to the feminine Irish name Nollaig. Recorded by Irish first names.
- What are other forms of the name Noelle?
- In the etymology graph, Natalie, Noelia and Noela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Noelle 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 Noelle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Noelle is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 3.4 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Noelle?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 5,146 people named Noelle, about 1 in 3.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Noelle compared with other names?
- In the United States, Noelle is the 529th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/noelleThe same 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), 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, “Noelle” — the 529th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.