Novalee Girl
How popular is Novalee?
#975 girl name in 2025
261 baby girls were named Novalee in the US in 2025, making it the 975th most popular girl name.
Novalee popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #975 for girls (▼ 233 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 261 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+18% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,146 in 2015, #810 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2024 (379 girls) |
| Highest rank | #742 in 2024 |
| First recorded | 1962 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Novalee counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Novalee family of names ranked #634 for girls in 2025 (#460 the year before), with 435 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Novalee is most popular
Babies named Novalee per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- West Virginia: 0.9 per 1,000 (24 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.6 per 1,000 (48 girls)
- Arkansas: 0.5 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- Indiana: 0.4 per 1,000 (60 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.4 per 1,000 (65 girls)
Novalee by decade
Girl names about as popular as Novalee
Questions
- Is Novalee a boy or girl name?
- Novalee is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Novalee were girls.
- How popular is the name Novalee?
- 261 baby girls were named Novalee in the US in 2025, making it the 975th most popular girl name.
- When was Novalee most popular?
- Novalee peaked in 2024, when 379 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #742 in 2024.
- How many people are named Novalee?
- 4,567 babies have been named Novalee in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,545 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 7.
- Where is Novalee most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Novalee was most common in West Virginia, at 0.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.