Nola
#821 for girls in 2025, 331 births · Last seen for boys in 1926 at #2,904
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1894 · 118 births
- Debut · girls
- 23 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 26,262since 1880
Nola over time
Rank among girls' names. Nola has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #821 | 331 | — | |
| 2024 | #762 | 369 | — | |
| 2023 | #739 | 381 | — | |
| 2022 | #625 | 472 | — | |
| 2021 | #595 | 503 | — | |
| 2020 | #553 | 537 | — | |
| 2019 | #605 | 500 | — | |
| 2018 | #643 | 461 | — | |
| 2017 | #744 | 379 | — | |
| 2016 | #818 | 350 | — | |
| 2015 | #769 | 368 | — | |
| 2014 | #804 | 348 | — | |
| 2013 | #776 | 350 | — | |
| 2012 | #804 | 334 | — | |
| 2011 | #893 | 292 | — | |
| 2010 | #856 | 314 | — | |
| 2009 | #953 | 280 | — | |
| 2008 | #916 | 299 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,027 | 257 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,197 | 202 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,855 | 104 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,100 | 86 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,167 | 80 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,605 | 59 | — | |
| 2001 | #3,142 | 44 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,854 | 50 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,730 | 31 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,224 | 36 | — | |
| 1996 | #3,361 | 34 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,670 | 29 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,448 | 32 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,422 | 32 | — | |
| 1992 | #4,088 | 25 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,059 | 25 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,120 | 24 | — | |
| 1989 | #2,931 | 37 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,805 | 24 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,612 | 38 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,054 | 30 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,749 | 34 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,299 | 42 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,751 | 61 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,720 | 65 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,985 | 53 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,486 | 38 | — | |
| 1979 | #1,832 | 58 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,690 | 62 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,621 | 65 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,912 | 47 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,136 | 40 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,100 | 39 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,309 | 33 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,093 | 37 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,473 | 69 | — | |
| 1970 | #1,505 | 66 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,250 | 80 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,347 | 68 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,360 | 65 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,050 | 99 | — | |
| 1965 | #1,089 | 92 | — | |
| 1964 | #888 | 137 | — | |
| 1963 | #980 | 118 | — | |
| 1962 | #867 | 148 | — | |
| 1961 | #848 | 155 | — | |
| 1960 | #789 | 168 | — | |
| 1959 | #627 | 252 | — | |
| 1958 | #850 | 144 | — | |
| 1957 | #802 | 159 | — | |
| 1956 | #669 | 206 | — | |
| 1955 | #671 | 195 | — | |
| 1954 | #588 | 236 | — | |
| 1953 | #545 | 255 | — | |
| 1952 | #559 | 240 | — | |
| 1951 | #528 | 249 | — | |
| 1950 | #520 | 247 | — | |
| 1949 | #556 | 223 | — | |
| 1948 | #578 | 210 | — | |
| 1947 | #527 | 252 | — | |
| 1946 | #527 | 222 | — | |
| 1945 | #473 | 231 | — | |
| 1944 | #458 | 245 | — | |
| 1943 | #431 | 291 | — | |
| 1942 | #456 | 263 | — | |
| 1941 | #411 | 279 | — | |
| 1940 | #424 | 259 | — | |
| 1939 | #408 | 273 | — | |
| 1938 | #350 | 337 | — | |
| 1937 | #378 | 294 | — | |
| 1936 | #366 | 300 | — | |
| 1935 | #375 | 286 | — | |
| 1934 | #360 | 307 | — | |
| 1933 | #384 | 281 | — | |
| 1932 | #370 | 301 | — | |
| 1931 | #370 | 300 | — | |
| 1930 | #381 | 322 | — | |
| 1929 | #371 | 328 | — | |
| 1928 | #376 | 330 | — | |
| 1927 | #357 | 361 | — | |
| 1926 | #417 | 268 | #2,904 | 9 |
| 1925 | #414 | 279 | — | |
| 1924 | #378 | 320 | — | |
| 1923 | #375 | 312 | — | |
| 1922 | #361 | 335 | — | |
| 1921 | #374 | 324 | — | |
| 1920 | #378 | 306 | — | |
| 1919 | #347 | 343 | — | |
| 1918 | #325 | 390 | — | |
| 1917 | #358 | 307 | — | |
| 1916 | #355 | 301 | — | |
| 1915 | #334 | 320 | — | |
| 1914 | #348 | 227 | — | |
| 1913 | #337 | 205 | — | |
| 1912 | #316 | 211 | — | |
| 1911 | #306 | 168 | — | |
| 1910 | #306 | 158 | — | |
| 1909 | #275 | 172 | — | |
| 1908 | #295 | 144 | — | |
| 1907 | #293 | 142 | — | |
| 1906 | #294 | 125 | — | |
| 1905 | #296 | 127 | — | |
| 1904 | #265 | 140 | — | |
| 1903 | #271 | 131 | — | |
| 1902 | #272 | 131 | — | |
| 1901 | #313 | 93 | — | |
| 1900 | #288 | 129 | — | |
| 1899 | #281 | 106 | — | |
| 1898 | #277 | 122 | — | |
| 1897 | #341 | 74 | — | |
| 1896 | #276 | 108 | — | |
| 1895 | #265 | 111 | — | |
| 1894 | #249 | 118 | — | |
| 1893 | #278 | 90 | — | |
| 1892 | #336 | 62 | — | |
| 1891 | #282 | 78 | — | |
| 1890 | #326 | 60 | — | |
| 1889 | #285 | 69 | — | |
| 1888 | #327 | 54 | — | |
| 1887 | #287 | 55 | — | |
| 1886 | #289 | 51 | — | |
| 1885 | #324 | 39 | — | |
| 1884 | #337 | 34 | — | |
| 1883 | #324 | 30 | — | |
| 1882 | #290 | 37 | — | |
| 1881 | #279 | 32 | — | |
| 1880 | #333 | 23 | — | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Nola was already there! It came in at #333, and was given to 23 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1880–1881, when fewer than 33 girls a year got the name.
See more about Nola
- 59 spots since 2024 (#762 → #821)
- 268 spots since 2020 (#553 → #821)
- 52 spots since 2015 (#769 → #821)
- Biggest jump: 223 spots in 1959 (#850 → #627)
- Biggest drop: 201 spots in 1965 (#888 → #1,089)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1894 at #249 (118 births)
- Births halved by 1972, 78 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 103 yrs · run 1880–1964
- Highest: 1 in 1,889 girls born in 1894 were named Nola (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,856 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 14.1% of all girls named Nola (3,696) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 424 | #279 (1881) | #308 |
| 1890s | 929 | #249 (1894) | #291 |
| 1900s | 1,334 | #265 (1904) | #286 |
| 1910s | 2,630 | #306 (1911) | #333 |
| 1920s | 3,163 | #357 (1927) | #380 |
| 1930s | 3,001 | #350 (1938) | #374 |
| 1940s | 2,475 | #411 (1941) | #484 |
| 1950s | 2,183 | #520 (1950) | #636 |
| 1960s | 1,130 | #789 (1960) | #1,047 |
| 1970s | 516 | #1,473 (1971) | #1,867 |
| 1980s | 422 | #1,720 (1982) | #2,539 |
| 1990s | 305 | #3,224 (1997) | #3,650 |
| 2000s | 1,461 | #916 (2008) | #1,882 |
| 2010s | 3,696 | #605 (2019) | #771 |
| 2020s | 2,593 | #553 (2020) | #683 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Nola in 1926
Top girls' names in 1926
Top boys' names in 1926
More about 1926
girls
1,185,401 girls got a published name in 1926; 1 in 4,423 of them was named Nola, which outranked 92.6% of the 5,622 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↑ 1,047Janell#1,795 → #748
- ↑ 389Madalyn#1,225 → #836
- ↑ 382Evangelina#1,324 → #942
- ↑ 379Carla#1,252 → #873
- ↑ 351Vilma#1,020 → #669
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,110,505 boys got a published name in 1926; 1 in 123,389 of them was named Nola, which outranked 40.0% of the 4,837 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,725Wesly10
- #2,725Worley10
- #2,725Zenas10
- #2,904Nola9
- #2,904Abbie9
- #2,904Abie9
- #2,904Abron9
- #3,139Adolphe8
- #3,139Alen8
- #3,139Algird8
Tied with 234 names at #2,904; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 531Okey#984 → #1,515
- ↓ 459Florentino#973 → #1,432
- ↓ 407Rexford#924 → #1,331
- ↓ 380Marshal#973 → #1,353
- ↓ 378Coolidge#746 → #1,124
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.