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Novaleigh vs Novalynn

American parents have registered 1,451 Novaleighs since 1880, against 865 Novalynns. But in 2025 it was Novalynn that was commoner, 116 babies to 85.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Novaleigh against Novalynn, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Novaleigh Novalynn

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 23 years in which either name was published, Novaleigh for 22 years and Novalynn for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Novaleigh Novalynn
Total US births 1,451865
Most in one year 201116
Babies in 2025 85116
Estimated living today 1,400860
Median age today 54
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 1,199th girls1,747th girls
Rank in 2025 2,173rd1,747th
First recorded 20012011
Girls / boys 1,451 / 0865 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

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

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