Nohlan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- NOH-lun
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Nohlan is a boys' name of Irish origin, meaning “descendant of Nuallán”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Nohlan mean?
Irish: respelling of Nolan, from the Irish surname O Nuallain
“descendant of Nuallán”
Is Nohlan a girl's or a boy's name?
Nohlan 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 Nohlan in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #12,003among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Nohlan, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,062nd. Its busiest year was 2014, with 14 boys. It first appears in the records in 2007.
2025 had fewer boys named Nohlan than any year since 2012.
Half of all the boys named Nohlan in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,947 boys in the US were given Nohlan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #72, up from #12,003 for this spelling alone.
Nohlan in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,307 |
| 2023 | 8 | #8,916 |
| 2022 | 9 | #8,293 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,062 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,141 |
| 2015 | 8 | #8,739 |
| 2014 | 14 | #5,993 |
| 2013 | 9 | #8,113 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #9,593 |
| 2010 | 6 | #10,759 |
| 2009 | 6 | #10,989 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #9,782 |
Names like Nohlan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Declan Ronan Callan Finnegan Finn Keegan Brayden Aiden Kellan Rogan Deegan Kayden
Other spellings of Nohlan
Names related to Nohlan
More Irish names
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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, “Nohlan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nohlan, updated 20 October 2026.