Yola

Last seen for girls in 1983 at #9,015

Peak · girls
1915 · 32 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
587
since 1900

Yola over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Yola has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201959peak #1,231, 1915girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1983#9,0156
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1980#10,3925
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1976#9,2845
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1967#6,8045
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1959#4,03110
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1952#5,5635
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1949#4,2357
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1947#3,44810
1946#4,4176
1945#4,5565
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1937#2,73510
1936#3,7016
1935#4,2045
1934#2,9239
1933#2,54011
1932#2,03716
1931#1,75020
1930#1,74821
1929#2,09816
1928#1,54127
1927#1,55928
1926#2,16517
1925#1,53529
1924#1,64327
1923#1,63726
1922#1,73024
1921#1,76524
1920#1,95220
1919#1,69823
1918#2,10217
1917#2,10016
1916#1,38028
1915#1,23132
1914#1,48019
1913#1,88311
1912#1,42115
1911#1,54510
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1907#1,8216
1906#1,9515
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1900#1,9325
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First appearance
1900

The first year at least five girls were named Yola! It came in at #1,932, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1900–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Yola
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1983
Rise & fade · girls
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1900
  • Peaked 1915 at #1,231 (32 births)
  • Births halved by 1917, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 30,745
  • Highest: 1 in 30,745 girls born in 1915 were named Yola (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 278,435 girls born in 1983 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 40.5% of all girls named Yola (238) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s16#1,821 (1907)#1,901
1910s171#1,231 (1915)#1,649
1920s238#1,535 (1925)#1,763
1930s98#1,748 (1930)#2,705
1940s28#3,448 (1947)#4,164
1950s15#4,031 (1959)#4,797
1960s5#6,804 (1967)#6,804
1970s5#9,284 (1976)#9,284
1980s11#9,015 (1983)#9,704

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.

Yola in 1959

girls
#4,031
10 births · 1 in 202,346 girls

Top girls' names in 1959

  1. #1Mary54,502
  2. #2Susan41,617
  3. #3Linda40,410
  4. #4Karen36,784
  5. #5Donna36,468
  6. #6Patricia35,223
  7. #7Debra31,388
  8. #8Cynthia30,186
  9. #9Deborah29,546
  10. #10Lisa25,699
  11. #4,031Yola10
More about 1959

girls

2,023,462 girls got a published name in 1959; 1 in 202,346 of them was named Yola, which outranked 44.0% of the 7,202 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yola
  1. #3,827Xiomara11
  2. #3,827Young11
  3. #3,827Zora11
  4. #4,031Yola10
  5. #4,031Al10
  6. #4,031Aleatha10
  7. #4,031Anastacia10
  8. #4,300Adair9
  9. #4,300Adrien9
  10. #4,300Aide9

Tied with 268 names at #4,031; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1958
Risers
  1. 1,090Alesia#1,985#895
  2. 948Tori#1,791#843
  3. 440Taryn#1,211#771
  4. 437Venus#1,007#570
  5. 393Vilma#1,364#971
Fallers
  1. 283Dani#961#1,244
  2. 257Nicki#973#1,230
  3. 235Lanita#973#1,208
  4. 219Concetta#973#1,192
  5. 197Gisele#766#963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1959