Novella

Where Novella comes from

Novella hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #813 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1905
    Peak, #490
    47 babies named Novella — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1934
    Novella Matveyeva born
    Russian poet and singer
  4. 1954
    Novella Calligaris born
    Italian swimmer
  5. 1970
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,311.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Novella Calligaris · Italian swimmer, born 1954
  • Novella Matveyeva · Russian poet and singer, 1934–2016
  • Novella d'Andrea · Italian legal scholar (1312–?), 1312–1333
  • Novella Nelson · American actress, 1939–2017
  • Novella Schiesaro · Italian basketball player, born 1973

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.