Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Nolie isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nolie through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 305
- 7 boys · 298 girls
- Most popular year
- 1914
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #14,457 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,457 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1918. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 194 as a first name in 2020; a sample rank of No. 31,428 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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