Dola

Where Dola comes from

Dola hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1886
    First appearance
    #1,108 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #877
    24 babies named Dola — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1911
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,450.
  4. 1967
    Dola Sen born
    Indian politician
  5. 1980
    Dola Banerjee born
    Indian archer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Dola Banerjee · Indian archer, born 1980
  • Dola Sen · Indian politician, born 1967
  • Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittmann · daughter of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and first native speaker of Modern Hebrew, 1902–2004
  • Dola Dunsmuir · Canadian socialite, 1903–1966

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.