Meaning not yet researched.
Leola: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #166 in 1910.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #166 in 1910; #6,711 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Leola in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,711 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1910, at #166.
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Leola: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #166 in 1910 · most girls in one year: 849 (1920).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Leola, making it the 6,711th most common girls’ name of the year, down 413 places from #6,298 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 19 girls named Leola in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #166, reached in 1910. The most girls given the name in a single year was 849, in 1920. For comparison, it was #7,138 in 2015 and #533 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Leola in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 24 babies. In all, 28,181 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 7,097 babies named Leola.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 225 US girls were named Leola; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lila (76,550 babies since 1880), Leila (55,447 babies since 1880), Lyla (49,299 babies since 1880) and Lela (43,073 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Leola 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 | 17 | #6,711 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,298 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,326 | — | — |
| 2022 | 37 | #4,011 | — | — |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,561 | — | — |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,586 | — | — |
| 2019 | 30 | #4,611 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,680 | — | — |
| 2017 | 25 | #5,269 | — | — |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,822 | — | — |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,138 | — | — |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,334 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,598 | — | — |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,054 | — | — |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,027 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,558 | — | — |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,187 | — | — |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,602 | — | — |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,351 | — | — |
| 2006 | 18 | #7,021 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,497 | — | — |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,366 | — | — |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,824 | — | — |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,596 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,383 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,656 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,499 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,370 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,817 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,468 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,241 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,874 | — | — |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,813 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,128 | — | — |
| 1990 | 21 | #4,608 | — | — |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,448 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,968 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,867 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,758 | — | — |
| 1984 | 19 | #4,089 | — | — |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,826 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,486 | — | — |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,390 | — | — |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,566 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 1978 | 33 | #2,604 | — | — |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,148 | — | — |
| 1976 | 41 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,489 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1973 | 25 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 1972 | 30 | #2,426 | — | — |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,891 | — | — |
| 1970 | 57 | #1,644 | — | — |
| 1969 | 51 | #1,697 | — | — |
| 1968 | 45 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 1967 | 47 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 1966 | 59 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1965 | 53 | #1,536 | — | — |
| 1964 | 77 | #1,261 | — | — |
| 1963 | 75 | #1,274 | — | — |
| 1962 | 102 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1961 | 101 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1960 | 120 | #979 | — | — |
| 1959 | 113 | #994 | — | — |
| 1958 | 129 | #903 | — | — |
| 1957 | 150 | #828 | — | — |
| 1956 | 152 | #807 | — | — |
| 1955 | 159 | #751 | — | — |
| 1954 | 182 | #695 | — | — |
| 1953 | 194 | #642 | — | — |
| 1952 | 190 | #646 | — | — |
| 1951 | 228 | #562 | — | — |
| 1950 | 243 | #533 | — | — |
| 1949 | 237 | #542 | — | — |
| 1948 | 218 | #564 | — | — |
| 1947 | 236 | #553 | — | — |
| 1946 | 241 | #504 | — | — |
| 1945 | 267 | #438 | — | — |
| 1944 | 267 | #440 | — | — |
| 1943 | 287 | #436 | — | — |
| 1942 | 300 | #412 | — | — |
| 1941 | 318 | #385 | — | — |
| 1940 | 323 | #365 | — | — |
| 1939 | 363 | #330 | — | — |
| 1938 | 379 | #321 | — | — |
| 1937 | 350 | #335 | 5 | #3,822 |
| 1936 | 396 | #302 | 7 | #3,040 |
| 1935 | 424 | #294 | — | — |
| 1934 | 414 | #308 | — | — |
| 1933 | 406 | #306 | — | — |
| 1932 | 488 | #281 | 5 | #4,069 |
| 1931 | 467 | #287 | — | — |
| 1930 | 530 | #283 | — | — |
| 1929 | 583 | #266 | — | — |
| 1928 | 589 | #266 | 7 | #3,563 |
| 1927 | 638 | #262 | 5 | #4,531 |
| 1926 | 644 | #263 | — | — |
| 1925 | 757 | #240 | — | — |
| 1924 | 757 | #242 | 7 | #3,695 |
| 1923 | 683 | #248 | — | — |
| 1922 | 778 | #232 | — | — |
| 1921 | 789 | #230 | 5 | #4,694 |
| 1920 | 849 | #226 | 6 | #4,076 |
| 1919 | 830 | #216 | — | — |
| 1918 | 777 | #227 | — | — |
| 1917 | 708 | #232 | 5 | #4,313 |
| 1916 | 780 | #218 | — | — |
| 1915 | 669 | #233 | — | — |
| 1914 | 567 | #222 | — | — |
| 1913 | 512 | #205 | — | — |
| 1912 | 514 | #190 | — | — |
| 1911 | 363 | #197 | — | — |
| 1910 | 423 | #166 | — | — |
| 1909 | 326 | #182 | — | — |
| 1908 | 321 | #179 | — | — |
| 1907 | 310 | #180 | — | — |
| 1906 | 273 | #182 | — | — |
| 1905 | 319 | #166 | — | — |
| 1904 | 244 | #192 | — | — |
| 1903 | 204 | #207 | — | — |
| 1902 | 207 | #204 | — | — |
| 1901 | 176 | #217 | — | — |
| 1900 | 235 | #204 | — | — |
| 1899 | 151 | #221 | — | — |
| 1898 | 169 | #226 | — | — |
| 1897 | 121 | #258 | — | — |
| 1896 | 141 | #233 | — | — |
| 1895 | 135 | #238 | — | — |
| 1894 | 128 | #235 | — | — |
| 1893 | 107 | #258 | — | — |
| 1892 | 122 | #242 | — | — |
| 1891 | 89 | #259 | — | — |
| 1890 | 92 | #261 | — | — |
| 1889 | 102 | #232 | — | — |
| 1888 | 72 | #274 | — | — |
| 1887 | 38 | #351 | — | — |
| 1886 | 49 | #294 | — | — |
| 1885 | 53 | #274 | — | — |
| 1884 | 59 | #255 | — | — |
| 1883 | 51 | #255 | — | — |
| 1882 | 47 | #254 | — | — |
| 1881 | 36 | #271 | — | — |
| 1880 | 24 | #331 | — | — |
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).