Novalee
#975 for girls in 2025, 261 births
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 379 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,567since 1962
Novalee over time
Rank among girls' names. Novalee has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #975 | 261 |
| 2024 | #742 | 379 |
| 2023 | #766 | 368 |
| 2022 | #815 | 344 |
| 2021 | #773 | 368 |
| 2020 | #810 | 335 |
| 2019 | #820 | 333 |
| 2018 | #778 | 351 |
| 2017 | #903 | 297 |
| 2016 | #949 | 288 |
| 2015 | #1,146 | 221 |
| 2014 | #1,371 | 169 |
| 2013 | #1,866 | 108 |
| 2012 | #2,160 | 87 |
| 2011 | #2,258 | 83 |
| 2010 | #2,976 | 57 |
| 2009 | #2,672 | 68 |
| 2008 | #3,054 | 56 |
| 2007 | #2,890 | 62 |
| 2006 | #3,505 | 45 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 |
| 2004 | #3,127 | 49 |
| 2003 | #3,532 | 40 |
| 2002 | #2,709 | 56 |
| 2001 | #2,461 | 63 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
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| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Novalee! It came in at #5,293, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964–1972, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Novalee is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Dakota#214 · 1 in 611
- West Virginia#335 · 1 in 1,173
- Oregon#361 · 1 in 1,450
- Arkansas#425 · 1 in 1,605
- Kansas#509 · 1 in 1,999
Best ever in a state: #181 in West Virginia, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | #214 | 5 | 1 in 611 |
| West Virginia | #335 | 5 | 1 in 1,173 |
| Oregon | #361 | 10 | 1 in 1,450 |
| Arkansas | #425 | 7 | 1 in 1,605 |
| Kansas | #509 | 6 | 1 in 1,999 |
| Kentucky | #554 | 7 | 1 in 2,554 |
| Tennessee | #565 | 12 | 1 in 2,550 |
| Wisconsin | #606 | 8 | 1 in 2,823 |
| Ohio | #609 | 17 | 1 in 3,046 |
| Alabama | #630 | 7 | 1 in 2,739 |
| Michigan | #663 | 12 | 1 in 3,439 |
| Missouri | #664 | 8 | 1 in 3,247 |
| Utah | #698 | 5 | 1 in 3,410 |
| Indiana | #768 | 8 | 1 in 3,763 |
| Pennsylvania | #768 | 12 | 1 in 4,262 |
| Texas | #816 | 35 | 1 in 4,568 |
| Georgia | #822 | 11 | 1 in 4,284 |
| Washington | #836 | 7 | 1 in 4,438 |
| Minnesota | #860 | 5 | 1 in 4,784 |
| Florida | #876 | 17 | 1 in 5,056 |
| North Carolina | #917 | 9 | 1 in 5,043 |
| Arizona | #947 | 6 | 1 in 5,012 |
| Virginia | #1,201 | 5 | 1 in 7,206 |
| Illinois | #1,250 | 7 | 1 in 7,935 |
| New York | #1,278 | 11 | 1 in 8,000 |
| California | #1,569 | 16 | 1 in 12,235 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Novalee
- 233 spots since 2024 (#742 → #975)
- 165 spots since 2020 (#810 → #975)
- 171 spots since 2015 (#1,146 → #975)
- Biggest jump: 197 spots in 2016 (#1,146 → #949)
- Biggest drop: 233 spots in 2025 (#742 → #975)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 2024 at #742 (379 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,275 girls born in 2024 were named Novalee (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,158 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 45.0% of all girls named Novalee (2,055) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 18 | #5,293 (1962) | #5,908 |
| 1970s | 6 | #7,435 (1973) | #7,435 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 494 | #2,461 (2001) | #3,504 |
| 2010s | 1,994 | #778 (2018) | #1,523 |
| 2020s | 2,055 | #742 (2024) | #814 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Novalee in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 5,813 of them was named Novalee, which outranked 95.1% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #899Marleigh298
- #899Rosalyn298
- #899Vienna298
- #903Novalee297
- #903Itzayana297
- #905Hadleigh296
- #905Iliana296
- #907Avalyn295
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.