Nolyn
- #7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
- Given to boys 81.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 51 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 802since 1998
Nolyn over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #10,271 | 9 | #3,605 | 31 |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #4,456 | 23 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | #3,053 | 40 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #2,918 | 42 |
| 2020 | #9,546 | 10 | #2,689 | 46 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 | #2,491 | 53 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #9,341 | 11 | #3,889 | 27 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #3,293 | 34 |
| 2015 | #8,008 | 14 | #3,149 | 36 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #3,038 | 37 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #3,265 | 33 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #2,448 | 51 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | — | #2,958 | 39 | |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #4,145 | 24 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #3,511 | 30 |
| 2006 | — | #3,451 | 30 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #3,710 | 25 |
| 2004 | — | #3,456 | 27 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,976 | 21 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,643 | 8 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,667 | 12 | |
| 2000 | — | #7,416 | 8 | |
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First appearance
1998
The first year at least five boys were named Nolyn! It came in at #7,560, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1999, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Nolyn is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Nolyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Nolyn
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 1,440 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #5,045)
- 2,356 spots since 2020 (#2,689 → #5,045)
- 1,896 spots since 2015 (#3,149 → #5,045)
Rise & fade · boys
14 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1998
- Peaked 2012 at #2,448 (51 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 11 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 33,853
- Highest: 1 in 33,853 boys born in 2019 were named Nolyn (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,448 in 2012, was only 1 in 37,195 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 46.3% of all boys named Nolyn (371) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 7 | #7,560 (1998) | #7,560 |
| 2000s | 223 | #3,045 (2009) | #4,602 |
| 2010s | 371 | #2,448 (2012) | #3,158 |
| 2020s | 201 | #2,689 (2020) | #3,628 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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