Nova-Rae
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NOH-va-RAY
- Origin
- Modern
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,217 for girls
Nova-Rae is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 1,217th for girls in the UK (28 babies).
What does Nova-Rae mean?
Modern: combination of Nova and Rae
Joins Nova, Latin for new, with Rae, a short form of Rachel.
Is Nova-Rae a girl's or a boy's name?
Nova-Rae is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 28 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Nova-Rae in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,217among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 28about 1 in 9,900 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 136% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 28 girls in the UK were named Nova-Rae, making it the 1,217th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,046th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 29 girls.
Half of all the girls named Nova-Rae in the UK since 1996 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 33 girls in the UK were given Nova-Rae or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #977, up from #1,217 for this spelling alone.
- Nova-Rae 28
- Novah-Rae 5
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,166th in England and Wales.
Nova-Rae in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #1,217 |
| 2024 | 28 | #1,248 |
| 2023 | 29 | #1,209 |
| 2022 | 22 | #1,485 |
| 2021 | 16 | #1,882 |
| 2020 | 14 | #2,046 |
| 2019 | 12 | #2,275 |
| 2018 | 10 | #2,631 |
| 2017 | 3 | #5,998 |
Nicknames for Nova-Rae
- Nova 723 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Nova-Rae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Maeve Eden Nova Kiara Maeva Nora Nellie Ottilie Fiadh Nevaeh Bonnie Orla
Other spellings of Nova-Rae
Novah-Rae
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya Oaklynn
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-Rae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/nova-rae, updated 20 October 2026.