Noble
Noble is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 162 births. Its best rank was 312th, in 1901.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1620.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1920196 births
- Best rank
- #312in 1901
- Since 1880
- 10,107people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,627 boys have been named Noble in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 196 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 75 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 480 girls have also been given it, 4.7% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Noble | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 164 | |
| 1890s | 247 | |
| 1900s | 296 | |
| 1910s | 1,193 | |
| 1920s | 1,484 | |
| 1930s | 891 | |
| 1940s | 743 | |
| 1950s | 542 | |
| 1960s | 369 | |
| 1970s | 287 | |
| 1980s | 237 | |
| 1990s | 393 | |
| 2000s | 678 | |
| 2010s | 1,350 | |
| 2020s | 753 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Noble was the 428th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Noble
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fosterpeak 2023
- Forestpeak 2022
- Crawfordpeak 1924
- Orenpeak 2021
- Juliuspeak 1918
- Emorypeak 1920
- Olinpeak 1921
- Valentinepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.