Novalea
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NOH-va-lee
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Novalea is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Novalea mean?
Modern: Nova with -lea; compare Novalee
Recalls Novalee Nation, heroine of Billie Letts's 1995 novel Where the Heart Is.
Is Novalea a girl's or a boy's name?
Novalea is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Novalea in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #10,913among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Novalea, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 12 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.
Half of all the girls named Novalea in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 163 girls in the US were given Novalea or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,212, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Novalea in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,287 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,612 |
| 2017 | 10 | #9,939 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 5 | #16,542 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
Nicknames for Novalea
- Nova 723 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Novalea
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ailany Kehlani Oaklynn Naylani Wrenley Cataleya Daleyza Analeia Lakelynn Rynlee Jaylani Malani
Other spellings of Novalea
Names related to Novalea
More Modern names
Jayden Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Alayna Caden Zayden Mya Ailani Kayson Kaylani
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, “Novalea: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/novalea, updated 20 October 2026.