In 2025, 44 US girls were named Enola, making it the 3,483rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 583 places from #2,900 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 57 girls named Enola in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #617, reached in 1893. The most girls given the name in a single year was 99, in 1953. For comparison, it was #10,362 in 2015 and #2,702 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Enola in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1885 with 6 babies. In all, 3,084 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 561 babies named Enola.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 387 US girls were named Enola; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 36,529 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Eniola, Inola and Enyla are summarised on this page.