Nova-Lee
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NOH-va-LEE
- Origin
- Latin
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,276 for girls
Nova-Lee is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “new + clearing, meadow”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).
What does Nova-Lee mean?
Latin: Nova + Lee
“new + clearing, meadow”
Joins Nova (Latin, “new”) and Lee (English, “clearing, meadow”).
Meanings borrowed from Nova and Lee.
Is Nova-Lee a girl's or a boy's name?
Nova-Lee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nova-Lee in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,276among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5about 1 in 56,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 160% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Nova-Lee, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th.
2025 had the most girls named Nova-Lee of any year since it first appeared, in 2016.
In 2025, 12 girls in the UK were given Nova-Lee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,977, up from #4,276 for this spelling alone.
- Novalie 7
- Nova-Lee 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.
Nova-Lee in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #4,276 |
| 2024 | 4 | #4,907 |
| 2023 | 4 | #4,915 |
| 2022 | 1 | #7,487 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 2 | #7,433 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 3 | #6,009 |
Names like Nova-Lee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Nova Nora Maeve Aurora Rosie Eden Ottilie Marnie Nellie Clementine Kiara Bonnie
Other spellings of Nova-Lee
Names related to Nova-Lee
More Latin names
Oliver Olivia Leo Roman Emily Florence Mabel Luna Emilia Max Lucy Julian Clara Anthony Austin Felix
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Nova-Lee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nova-lee, updated 20 October 2026.