Naol
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- nah-OHL
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Naol is a boys' name. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
Where does Naol come from?
Probably Oromo, from Ethiopia
Is Naol a girl's or a boy's name?
Naol is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Naol in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Naol, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,231st. Its busiest year was 2020, with 17 boys. It first appears in the records in 2007.
2025 had fewer boys named Naol than any year since 2009.
Half of all the boys named Naol in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Naol in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 10 | #7,760 |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 7 | #9,815 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,231 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 6 | #10,754 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 14 | #6,048 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,562 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,124 |
| 2013 | 10 | #7,532 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,133 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
Names like Naol
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kyaire, Cassian, Callan, Raiden, Kayden, Declan, Ronan, Finnegan, Kenai, Deacon, Sevyn, Koda
Names related to Naol
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Naol: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/naol, updated 20 October 2026.