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The first name 
Noelly

Noelly is a female first name.

Noelly – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Noelly in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Noelly in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Noelly by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Noelly ranks at #9,534. That means there are 9,533 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Noelly.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Noelly

Noelly -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Noelly is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Noelly can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Noelly. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Noelly living in one state or another (if your name is Noelly and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Noelly is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00003% of all female residents are named Noelly – that’s just one in 2,982,583! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 women with that name. So, if your name is Noelly, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Noelly has 6 letters 
and begins with an N

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter N is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 4.1% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A and S, while X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.

With six letters, the name Noelly is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Thus, it follows that with 4.1% of all girls' names starting with an N, this initial letter occurs about as often as all 26 letters on average. Nevertheless, there are girls' names with N that are quite common, the most common in the U.S. at present is Nancy.

Other names with 
N, o, e, l, l and y

If you take all the letters in the name Noelly – N, o, e, l, l and y – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Lyonel.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Noelly

If your name is Noelly and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Noelly

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Noelly, you can simply say:

Nut

Orange

Elephant

Lion

Lion

Yoyo

This is how the name Noelly is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Noelly in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Noelly

Noelly

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Noelly

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Noelly is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

N
O
E
L
L
Y

Have you ever waved the name Noelly

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

N
O
E
L
L
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Noelly sounds like this: