Noela
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Noela is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and French, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von.
- TZTanzania1 in 9K◐
- AUAustralia1 in 9.6K
- KEKenya1 in 18K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈16K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 311 ●
- 1 in 14K ◐
across 10 countries
recorded for this name
134K records
Official registry-verified
Albania
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Nola in US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 12 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 5 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 | — | 12,182 | 99K rec. | 1 in 27K | 12K | Nola | 311 |
| AU Australia | #825 | 12,026 | 11K rec. | — | 3 | Nola | 124 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 4,688 | 4.6K rec. | — | 16 | Nola | 75 |
| CA Canada | — | 3,132 | 2.6K rec. | — | 2 | Nola | 88 |
| PH Philippines | — | 2,305 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Noela | 24 |
| FR France | — | 2,285 | 1.2K rec. | 1 in 30K | 2.3K | Noela | 100 |
| KE Kenya | — | 1,618 | 262 rec. | — | — | Noela | 18 |
| TZ Tanzania | #560 | 1,464 | 1K rec. | — | — | Noela | 19 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 982 | 49 rec. | — | — | Nola | 7 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 768 | 841 rec. | — | — | Nola | 27 |
| IT Italy | — | 726 | 1.2K rec. | — | 8 | Nola | 24 |
| DE Germany | — | 647 | 575 rec. | — | 5 | Nola | 44 |
Roughly 12K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 27K). 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●
- English6.8K27%
- French6.5K25%
- Spanish4.3K17%
- Swahili2.8K11%
- Portuguese7363%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 6,780 | 27% |
| French | 6,483 | 25% |
| Spanish | 4,334 | 17% |
| Swahili | 2,761 | 11% |
| Portuguese | 736 | 3% |
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●
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1902 | 5 |
| 1905 | 5 |
| 1906 | 5 |
| 1908 | 5 |
| 1909 | 5 |
| 1910 | 5 |
| 1911 | 10 |
| 1912 | 5 |
| 1913 | 10 |
| 1914 | 20 |
| 1915 | 10 |
| 1916 | 10 |
| 1917 | 10 |
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1919 | 5 |
| 1920 | 20 |
| 1921 | 5 |
| 1922 | 10 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1924 | 15 |
| 1925 | 10 |
| 1926 | 10 |
| 1927 | 10 |
| 1928 | 10 |
| 1929 | 10 |
| 1930 | 10 |
| 1931 | 15 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 10 |
| 1934 | 10 |
| 1935 | 15 |
| 1936 | 20 |
| 1937 | 10 |
| 1938 | 10 |
| 1939 | 15 |
| 1940 | 10 |
| 1941 | 5 |
| 1942 | 10 |
| 1943 | 10 |
| 1944 | 5 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 5 |
| 1947 | 10 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 10 |
| 1951 | 5 |
| 1952 | 5 |
| 1953 | 10 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 5 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1966 | 5 |
RE INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 974 (Réunion) — 56 years between 1902–1966. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 61 sources across 40 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2009 | 1.5K | #2,985 |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 1K | #711 |
| 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 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 212 | #4,588 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 125 | #7,326 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 93 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 72 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 72 | #51,891 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 69 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 301 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Noela?
- We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Noela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Noela have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 12 thousand people bear Noela in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nola.
- How common is Noela compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Noela is the 560th most common given name of 40,746 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Noela mean?
- Recorded meaning: weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von
Query this name via API
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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.
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 560th most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.