Meaning not yet researched.
Iola: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #265 in 1907.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #265 in 1907; #12,412 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Iola in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,412 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1907, at #265.
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Iola: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #265 in 1907 · most girls in one year: 368 (1918).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Iola, making it the 12,412th most common girls’ name of the year, down 906 places from #11,506 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 8 girls named Iola in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #265, reached in 1907. The most girls given the name in a single year was 368, in 1918. For comparison, it was #9,735 in 2015 and #1,176 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Iola in 124 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 15 babies. In all, 9,659 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,546 babies named Iola.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 87 US girls were named Iola; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 16. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ola (30,275 babies since 1880), Ila (25,120 babies since 1880), Ella (352,214 babies since 1880) and Eula (47,491 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gladiola are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gladiola (166).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Iola in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,412 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,506 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,652 | — | — |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,711 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,195 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,178 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,484 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,221 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,669 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,735 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,626 | — | — |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,344 | — | — |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,053 | — | — |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,549 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,704 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #18,589 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,487 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,139 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,353 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,006 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,348 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,111 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,998 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,960 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,536 | — | — |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,933 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,120 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,832 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,734 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,823 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,733 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,812 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,786 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,591 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,895 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,424 | — | — |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,190 | — | — |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,295 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,693 | — | — |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 1961 | 24 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1958 | 19 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,797 | — | — |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,523 | — | — |
| 1954 | 44 | #1,522 | — | — |
| 1953 | 41 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1952 | 65 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1951 | 49 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1950 | 62 | #1,176 | — | — |
| 1949 | 57 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1948 | 59 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1947 | 58 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1946 | 55 | #1,155 | — | — |
| 1945 | 83 | #826 | — | — |
| 1944 | 61 | #995 | — | — |
| 1943 | 67 | #970 | — | — |
| 1942 | 78 | #876 | — | — |
| 1941 | 81 | #803 | — | — |
| 1940 | 93 | #722 | — | — |
| 1939 | 95 | #699 | — | — |
| 1938 | 114 | #643 | — | — |
| 1937 | 99 | #685 | — | — |
| 1936 | 120 | #601 | — | — |
| 1935 | 152 | #520 | — | — |
| 1934 | 123 | #589 | — | — |
| 1933 | 148 | #522 | — | — |
| 1932 | 168 | #505 | — | — |
| 1931 | 164 | #507 | — | — |
| 1930 | 184 | #492 | — | — |
| 1929 | 202 | #471 | — | — |
| 1928 | 224 | #461 | — | — |
| 1927 | 228 | #463 | — | — |
| 1926 | 221 | #466 | — | — |
| 1925 | 250 | #437 | — | — |
| 1924 | 272 | #427 | — | — |
| 1923 | 229 | #452 | — | — |
| 1922 | 297 | #378 | — | — |
| 1921 | 296 | #388 | — | — |
| 1920 | 327 | #363 | — | — |
| 1919 | 268 | #395 | — | — |
| 1918 | 368 | #339 | — | — |
| 1917 | 303 | #359 | — | — |
| 1916 | 317 | #347 | — | — |
| 1915 | 289 | #350 | — | — |
| 1914 | 283 | #311 | — | — |
| 1913 | 216 | #327 | — | — |
| 1912 | 181 | #343 | — | — |
| 1911 | 125 | #357 | — | — |
| 1910 | 175 | #294 | — | — |
| 1909 | 162 | #280 | — | — |
| 1908 | 156 | #280 | — | — |
| 1907 | 169 | #265 | — | — |
| 1906 | 78 | #389 | — | — |
| 1905 | 80 | #378 | — | — |
| 1904 | 61 | #416 | — | — |
| 1903 | 68 | #384 | — | — |
| 1902 | 52 | #430 | — | — |
| 1901 | 56 | #392 | — | — |
| 1900 | 71 | #393 | — | — |
| 1899 | 46 | #430 | — | — |
| 1898 | 67 | #379 | — | — |
| 1897 | 53 | #400 | — | — |
| 1896 | 49 | #411 | — | — |
| 1895 | 48 | #405 | — | — |
| 1894 | 44 | #420 | — | — |
| 1893 | 44 | #404 | — | — |
| 1892 | 54 | #362 | — | — |
| 1891 | 36 | #416 | — | — |
| 1890 | 30 | #479 | — | — |
| 1889 | 38 | #395 | — | — |
| 1888 | 45 | #358 | — | — |
| 1887 | 26 | #438 | — | — |
| 1886 | 21 | #484 | — | — |
| 1885 | 20 | #475 | — | — |
| 1884 | 25 | #402 | — | — |
| 1883 | 13 | #552 | — | — |
| 1882 | 16 | #467 | — | — |
| 1881 | 14 | #458 | — | — |
| 1880 | 15 | #439 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).