Name meaning & stats
Noel
Noel means “Christmas” (French origin). 59,281 US babies since 1940, peak 2014.
What it means
“Christmas”
FrenchWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2014
59,281 US babies were named Noel between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Noel (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2014)