The NOEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	28,401	1130	0.011	105
United States (1880 census)	4,189	1473	0.008	84
Change since 1880	+24212	+343	+0.003	+21
Other Countries
Australia	249	6190	0.002	15
United Kingdom	1,507	3738	0.003	33

Top States for NOEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Florida	3,113	635	0.019	195
Pennsylvania	1,985	651	0.016	162
New York	1,816	1005	0.010	96
California	1,733	1901	0.005	51
Louisiana	1,419	444	0.032	318
Top States for NOEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	1,419	444	0.032	318
Delaware	220	592	0.028	281
Vermont	168	576	0.028	276
New Hampshire	330	561	0.027	267
Kentucky	954	647	0.024	236

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called NOEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called NOEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called NOEL in Florida than any other state, but you are more likely to find a NOEL by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of NOEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the NOEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the NOEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of NOEL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	801	2.82
White (Hispanic)	659	2.32
Asian/Pacific	207	0.73
Native American/Alaskan	159	0.56
White (Caucasian)	18,790	66.16
Black/African American	7,782	27.4

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the NOEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of NOEL in historical publications

NOEL. Fr. Christmas. Originally a baptismal name, from the person's having been born on the day of that festival. William, the ancestor of all the English Noels, was living in tlie reign of Henry I., and was at that period lord of Ellenhall, co. Stafford. Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men of England. Collins says that ' Noel,' and his wife Celestria, came into England at the Conquest, and that their son Robert was called Fitz-Noel, and hence the name and famil3

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

(origin: Fr.) Christmas; a name given probably to a child born at that time.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

Similar names to NOEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as NOEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.