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Noel
Pronounced /nəʊˈɛl/
Rank in 2024
#433
Born in 2024
728
Peak year
2014 · #356
Origin
French
Also recorded for girls:146 in 2024 (#1,488)
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 728 boys were named Noel, about 1 in every 2,356.
- It peaked in 2014 with 901 babies, ranked #356.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 51,456 boys have been named Noel since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Noel per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- 0.3Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.3Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 3,271 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Silent: 5,956 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Boomers: 7,032 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen X: 8,261 babies, 0.30 per 1,000. Millennials: 7,985 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,228 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 9,455 babies, 0.44 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Nowel, borrowed from Old French Noel (“Christmas”), from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birth[day of the Lord]”). Doublet of nada, natal, Natal, and née. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nōel', IPA(key): /nəʊˈɛl/ Rhymes: -ɛl Hyphenation: No‧el ==== Proper noun ==== Noel (literary or dated) Christmas. ===== Translations =====
- A male given name from French.
- A female given name from French.
- Origin
- French
- Say it
- /nəʊˈɛl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Noel, CC BY-SA 4.0.