Nobles
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nobles is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Liberia it is the 58th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: pers. name (E. N. Lowe).
- USUnited States1 in 26K◐
- CACanada1 in 48K
- AUAustralia1 in 55K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈13K ●
- Sources
- 354 ●
- 1 in 26K ◐
across 10 countries
119K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
pers. name (E. N. Lowe)
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 12,965 | 105K rec. | 1 in 26K | 13K | Nobles | 354 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,313 | 3.3K rec. | — | — | Nobles | 44 |
| PH Philippines | — | 1,719 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Nobles | 34 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,566 | 1.6K rec. | — | — | Nobles | 31 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,527 | 1.5K rec. | — | — | Nobles | 25 |
| IT Italy | — | 620 | 636 rec. | — | — | Nobles | 7 |
| DE Germany | — | 526 | 520 rec. | — | — | Nobles | 25 |
| SG Singapore | — | 402 | 404 rec. | — | — | Nobles | 10 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 385 | 398 rec. | — | — | Nobles | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | 238 | 246 rec. | — | — | Nobles | 6 |
| LR Liberia | #58 | 228 | 804 rec. | — | — | Nobles | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 131 | — | 1 in 1.6M | 131 | — | — |
Roughly 13K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 26K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English119K84%
- Spanish7.8K6%
- 3.8K3%
- French1.7K1%
- German1K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 118,583 | 84% |
| Spanish | 7,812 | 6% |
| 3,762 | 3% | |
| French | 1,736 | 1% |
| German | 1,042 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Nobles is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, strong/mixed nominative/accusative neuter singular of nobel
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1891 | 2 |
| 1901 | 3 |
| 1911 | 9 |
| 1921 | 8 |
| 1931 | 4 |
| 1941 | 8 |
| 1951 | 9 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1971 | 4 |
| 1981 | 5 |
| 1991 | 9 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- William H. Noblesb. 1816USAmerican politician (1816-1876)
- William Noblesb. 1892USAmerican cinematographer (1892–1968)
- Mildred K. Noblesb. 1903CACanadian mycologist (1903-1993)
- Bob Nolanb. 1908CAnot in their usual nameCanadian-American singer and actor (1908-1980)
- Billy Mylesb. 1924USnot in their usual nameAmerican R&B songwriter and singer
- Melissa Noblesb. 1963USAmerican political scientist and academic administrator
- Jordan Noblesb. 1969CACanadian composer
- Gerald Noblesb. 1971USAmerican boxer
- Barry Noblesb. 1986American BMX and mountain bike racer
- Vada NoblesUSAmerican songwriter, record producer
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●
Attested in 22 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 13K | #2,782 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 12K | #2,815 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 12K | #2,724 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 131 | #51,558 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 38 | #53,802 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 38 | #53,553 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 32 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 9 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1911 | 9 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Nobles?
- We estimate roughly 13 thousand people bear Nobles (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Nobles have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 13 thousand people bear Nobles in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nobles.
- How common is Nobles compared with other names?
- In Liberia, Nobles is the 58th most common surname of 6,092 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Nobles mean?
- Recorded meaning: pers. name (E. N. Lowe)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nobles” — the 58th most common surname in Liberia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.