At a glance
- U.S. rank 2025
- #10,917 of girl names (outside the top 1,000)
- Babies in 2025
- 8 (<0.01% of girls)
- Trend
- Steady #10,250 in 2020 to #10,917 in 2025
- Peak
- #6,932 in 2024
- First recorded
- 2004
Meaning of Novaly
Novaly embodies a modern Anglo-American feminine given name characterized by neo-Latin morphological construction, wherein the Latin nova, meaning “new,” merges with the affix -ly to confer associations of renewal, novelty and conceptual innovation; rendered in English as noh-vuh-LEE (/nəʊvəˈliː/, /noʊvəˈliː/), it has maintained modest yet consistent registration in U.S. naming data since its first recorded occurrence in 2004, with annual birth counts fluctuating between five and sixteen and rank positions stabilizing in the low nine-hundreds—statistics that underscore its emergence as a rare but steadily recognized choice among parents seeking an inventive, phonetically accessible designation.
How to pronounce Novaly
English
- Pronounced noh-vuh-lee /noʊvəˈliː/
Popularity of Novaly in the U.S.
Novaly was the #10,917 girl name in the U.S. in 2025, with 8 babies. It peaked at #6,932 in 2024. It first appears in the records in 2004.
- Rank among U.S. girl names (right scale, #1 at the top)
Year-by-year table, 2004–2025 13 rows
| Year | Babies | Rank | vs previous year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | 10,917 | ▼ 3,985 |
| 2024 | 16 | 6,932 | ▲ 5,265 |
| 2023 | 7 | 12,197 | ▼ 3,141 |
| 2022 | 11 | 9,056 | ▲ 506 |
| 2021 | 10 | 9,562 | ▲ 688 |
| 2020 | 9 | 10,250 | ▼ 1,653 |
| 2019 | 12 | 8,597 | ▲ 554 |
| 2018 | 11 | 9,151 | ▼ 1,311 |
| 2017 | 14 | 7,840 | ▲ 5,036 |
| 2016 | 7 | 12,876 | ▲ 3,543 |
| 2015 | 5 | 16,419 | back (not recorded in 2011–2014) |
| 2010 | 7 | 13,448 | back (not recorded in 2005–2009) |
| 2004 | 5 | 16,099 | new |