Noel

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From Middle English Nowel, borrowed from Old French Noel (“Christmas”), from Latin nātālis [diēs Dominī] (“birth[day of the Lord]”). Doublet of natal and Natal.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nōel', IPA^(key): /nəʊˈɛl/

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• Rhymes: -ɛl
• Hyphenation: No‧el

Noel

1. (literary or dated) Christmas.

• (names): From Noel in the sense of Christmas; given since Middle Ages to children born at Christmastide.
• (city in Missouri): Named for brothers Clark Wallace and William Jasper Noel, stockmen and owners of a sawmill.
• (community of Nova Scotia, Canada): Named after its most prominent resident, Noël Doiron.

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nō'(ə)l, IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊ(ə)l/

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• Rhymes: -əʊl

Noel

1. A male given name from French.
   • 2009, Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs, Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 162:

     When Noel came, noisily bursting through the back door with buckets of cleansers and sponges, I introduced myself. "Just call me Noelle," he said of himself. "When I was little they used to call me Noel, Noel, the toilet bowl. Although now I have thought of painting that on the side of my van. It might be good for business? I don't know."

   • 2024 April 11, Wade Miller, “Policy Brief: The Great Replacement in Theory and Practice”, in Center for Renewing America‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2024:

     Former Harvard professor and communist Noel Ignatiev, who co-founded the New Abolitionist Society and founded a journal called Race Traitor, named after a book he coauthored in the mid-1990s, famously advocated for the complete abolition of the white race […] Note a certain coyness about whether this destruction refers to only a white race category or to all white-skinned people.

2. A female given name from French.
3. A surname originating as a patronymic.
4. A city in McDonald County, Missouri, United States.

   Synonym: Christmas City

5. A community in East Hants municipality, Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.

• Noel Park

• lone, Leno, leno, neol., Léon, one L, Nole, Leon, nole, Elno, elon, enol, Elon, León

The given name is from English Noel.

Noel

1. a male given name from English [in turn from Latin]
2. a surname

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Noel.

From French Noël.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnoel/, [ˈno̞e̞l]
• Rhymes: -oel
• Syllabification^(key): No‧el
• Hyphenation^(key): No‧el

Noel

1. a male given name

• Noel is the 155^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 4,089 male individuals (and as a middle name to 961 more), and also belongs to 25 female individuals (and as a middle name to 24 more), according to August 2025 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

From Turkish Noel, from French Noël.

Noel

1. Christmas

Noel

1. alternative form of Nowel

• Naël, Nohel, Noiel, Nouel, Nowel

From Latin natālis (“of or relating to birth”).

Noel oblique singular, m (oblique plural Noeaus or Noeax or Noiaus or Noiax or Noels, nominative singular Noeaus or Noeax or Noiaus or Noiax or Noels, nominative plural Noel)

1. Christmas

• → Middle English: Nowel, Noel
  • English: Noel, Noël, noel, noël, nowel, nowell
• Middle French: Noël
  • French: Noël, noël
    • Swedish: Noel
    • Turkish: Noel

• IPA^(key): /noˈel/ [noˈel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: No‧el

Noel m or f by sense

1. a surname
2. Noel

From English Noel and French Noël. In general use among Swedish-speakers since about 2000.

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Noel c (genitive Noels)

1. a male given name

• [2] Statistiska centralbyrån : 3552 males with the given name Noel living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the highest frequency so far in 2010 . Accessed on 17 September 2011.

• Leon

Borrowed from French Noël.

• IPA^(key): /noˈæ̯l/

Noel

1. Christmas (Christian holiday)

Borrowed from French Noël.

Noel

1. alternative spelling of Nô-el