Novaly
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- NOH-vuh-lee
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Novaly is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
What does Novaly mean?
Modern: spelling of Novalee; blend of Nova and Lee
Novalee Nation is the heroine of Billie Letts's 1995 novel Where the Heart Is, filmed in 2000.
Meaning borrowed from Novalee. More on Wiktionary.
Is Novaly a girl's or a boy's name?
Novaly 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 Novaly in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Novaly, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004.
Half of all the girls named Novaly in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 286 girls in the US were given Novaly or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #857, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Novaly in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,413 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
Nicknames for Novaly
- Nova 723 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Novaly
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ailany, Wrenley, Rynlee, Emberly, Oaklynn, Everly, Nashly, Brynlee, Klarity, Lakelynn, Legacy, Haisley
Other spellings of Novaly
Names related to Novaly
More Modern names
Jayden, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Mya, Ailani, Kayson
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, “Novaly: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/novaly, updated 20 October 2026.