Meaning and history
Noel is the English form of Noël and, more rarely, Noëlle, and is sometimes written with the French diaeresis. It was fairly popular in the mid-20th-century United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand; British musician Noel Gallagher (1967–) is a famous bearer.
20062006: 607 births, rank #446
2007: 636 births, rank #439
2008: 592 births, rank #467
2009: 555 births, rank #490
2010: 545 births, rank #477
20112011: 587 births, rank #456
2012: 682 births, rank #417
2013: 778 births, rank #383
2014: 901 births, rank #356
2015: 862 births, rank #375
20162016: 846 births, rank #381
2017: 832 births, rank #386
2018: 789 births, rank #405
2019: 791 births, rank #395
2020: 714 births, rank #416
20212021: 787 births, rank #397
2022: 743 births, rank #425
2023: 686 births, rank #451
2024: 731 births, rank #434
20252025: 635 births, rank #478
Noel moved from #434 to #478 for boys between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2014, with 901 births.