Novalee

#975 for girls in 2025, 261 births

Peak · girls
2024 · 379 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
4,567
since 1962

Novalee over time

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Rank among girls' names. Novalee has never cracked the top 700 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201962girlsat peak
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirths
2025#975261
2024#742379
2023#766368
2022#815344
2021#773368
2020#810335
2019#820333
2018#778351
2017#903297
2016#949288
2015#1,146221
2014#1,371169
2013#1,866108
2012#2,16087
2011#2,25883
2010#2,97657
2009#2,67268
2008#3,05456
2007#2,89062
2006#3,50545
2005#3,50942
2004#3,12749
2003#3,53240
2002#2,70956
2001#2,46163
2000#7,58013
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First appearance
1962

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.

See more about Novalee
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
62 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1962
  • Peaked 2024 at #742 (379 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 10 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2016–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 4,275
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 45.0% of all girls named Novalee (2,055) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s18#5,293 (1962)#5,908
1970s6#7,435 (1973)#7,435
1980s0
1990s0
2000s494#2,461 (2001)#3,504
2010s1,994#778 (2018)#1,523
2020s2,055#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 1962

girls
#5,293
7 births · 1 in 280,943 girls

Top girls' names in 1962

  1. #1Lisa46,069
  2. #2Mary43,502
  3. #3Susan35,752
  4. #4Karen35,184
  5. #5Linda31,461
  6. #6Patricia26,532
  7. #7Donna25,719
  8. #8Cynthia24,025
  9. #9Deborah22,889
  10. #10Sandra22,420
  11. #5,293Novalee7
More about 1962

girls

1,966,603 girls got a published name in 1962; 1 in 280,943 of them was named Novalee, which outranked 30.2% of the 7,584 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Novalee
  1. #4,865Yolander8
  2. #4,865Zenda8
  3. #4,865Zeta8
  4. #5,293Novalee7
  5. #5,293Adalia7
  6. #5,293Adel7
  7. #5,293Adraine7
  8. #5,860Adana6
  9. #5,860Adrien6
  10. #5,860Aidee6

Tied with 566 names at #5,293; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1961
Risers
  1. 1,281Tiffany#2,070#789
  2. 879Whitney#1,627#748
  3. 541Zina#1,533#992
  4. 414Glynis#1,406#992
  5. 408Lolita#978#570
Fallers
  1. 300Fern#821#1,121
  2. 259Jacklyn#815#1,074
  3. 255Dorthy#929#1,184
  4. 224Laurene#943#1,167
  5. 215Jimmie#911#1,126

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1962