Nola

Where Nola comes from

From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see).
— Wiktionary's entry for Nola
  • Irish
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #333 among girls — 23 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1894
    Peak, #249
    118 babies named Nola — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1899
    Nola Hatterman born
    Dutch actress, teacher and artist
  4. 1901
    Nola Luxford born
    New Zealand actress
  5. 1972
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,093.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Irish.
Namesakes
  • Nola Luxford · New Zealand actress, 1901–1994
  • Nola Hatterman · Dutch actress, teacher and artist, 1899–1984
  • Nola Chilton · an American-born Israeli theater director and acting teacher., 1922–2021
  • Nola Rae · Australian mime artist, born 1949
  • Nola Marino · Australian politician, born 1954

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.