How rare is the name Noble?

4,287 people in the United States have the first name Noble, about 1 in 70,453. It ranks #4,384 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

NOBLE

#4,384

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
4,287
About
1 in 70,453
This common or more
84%
Who bears it

Of the 4,287 people named Noble, 55% reported their origin as White, 26.6% as Black and 6.6% as two or more races. 93.5% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Noble peaked in 2019, when 204 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2019
Births that year
204
In 2025*
149 ▼27%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 10,261 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Noble by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1910s, when it ranked #940. The largest share of babies named Noble, 28%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#951164
1890s#955247
1900s#1,033301
1910s#9401,271
1920s#1,0391,583
1930s#1,285943
1940s#1,613766
1950s#2,278553
1960s#3,062374
1970s#4,236287
1980s#5,691237
1990s#4,987398
2000s#4,280701
2010s#2,7471,456
2020s#2,564980
Before 19014.4%
Greatest Generation 1901–2728%
Silent Generation 1928–4516.2%
Baby boom 1946–6410.3%
Generation X 1965–804.7%
Millennials 1981–964.4%
Generation Z 1997–1211.4%
2013 and later20.7%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Noble is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Noble has been most common in Arkansas (4.8×), Kentucky (4.7×), and Indiana (4.2×), and least common in Michigan (0.18×).

4,534 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Noble

1 other first name also has 4,287 people.

#4,384 Reta · 4,287

Either side of Noble

#4,380 Nedra · 4,294#4,383 Fe · 4,290#4,384 Reta · 4,287#4,386 Chanelle · 4,282

Also a last name

As a last name, Noble ranks #838 of 156,621, with 40,384 people. See Noble as a last name

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