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Noelia vs Noemie

American parents have registered 7,655 Noelias since 1880, against 666 Noemies. Noelia is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Noelia against Noemie, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Noelia Noemie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 96 years in which either name was published, Noelia for 86 years and Noemie for 10 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Noelia Noemie
Total US births 7,655666
Most in one year 34050
Babies in 2025 15647
Estimated living today 7,400610
Median age today 218
Peak year 20062023
Best rank 806th girls3,225th girls
Rank in 2025 1,396th3,296th
First recorded 19341889
Girls / boys 7,655 / 0666 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Noelias alive today are over 21; half the Noemies are over 8. That is 13 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Noelia Noemie
France 2,56076,320
Belgium 235 Noélia4,021 Noémie
Switzerland 1,6621,493 Noémie
England and Wales 125179
Poland 2417 Noémie

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Noelia and Noemie.