Meaning not yet researched.
Nola: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 331 in 2025. Its best rank was #254 in 1894.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #254 in 1894; #822 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Nola in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#822 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1894, at #254.
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Nola: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 331 girls in 2025. Peak: #254 in 1894 · most girls in one year: 537 (2020).
In 2025, 331 US girls were named Nola, making it the 822nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 57 places from #765 in 2024. That is 38 fewer than the 369 girls named Nola in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #254, reached in 1894. The most girls given the name in a single year was 537, in 2020. For comparison, it was #770 in 2015 and #521 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Nola in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 23 babies with the name. In all, 26,271 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,696 babies named Nola.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,283 US girls were named Nola; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 537. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,856 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Nola ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #263 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Noella (3,215 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Nuala and Nolah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Nuala (363), Nolah (275).
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 Nola in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 20 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #263 | — |
| Missouri | 15 | #414 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #468 | #520 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #501 | — |
| Connecticut | 6 | #530 | #560 |
| North Carolina | 20 | #556 | #559 |
| Nevada | 5 | #582 | — |
| Maryland | 9 | #587 | — |
| Georgia | 18 | #604 | #806 |
| Michigan | 13 | #630 | #544 |
| Virginia | 12 | #650 | #615 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #685 | #439 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #728 | #700 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #748 | — |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #806 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #811 | #463 |
| Arizona | 7 | #886 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #897 | #413 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #911 | — |
| Alabama | 5 | #917 | — |
| New York | 17 | #938 | #877 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #961 | #732 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #973 | #560 |
| Illinois | 9 | #987 | #628 |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,012 | #828 |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,016 | #399 |
| Texas | 23 | #1,182 | #1,136 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,198 | #636 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,200 | #861 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,311 | #971 |
| California | 16 | #1,464 | #1,284 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 331 | #822 | — | — |
| 2024 | 369 | #765 | — | — |
| 2023 | 381 | #740 | — | — |
| 2022 | 472 | #627 | — | — |
| 2021 | 503 | #596 | — | — |
| 2020 | 537 | #553 | — | — |
| 2019 | 500 | #607 | — | — |
| 2018 | 461 | #643 | — | — |
| 2017 | 379 | #744 | — | — |
| 2016 | 350 | #821 | — | — |
| 2015 | 368 | #770 | — | — |
| 2014 | 348 | #804 | — | — |
| 2013 | 350 | #776 | — | — |
| 2012 | 334 | #805 | — | — |
| 2011 | 292 | #894 | — | — |
| 2010 | 314 | #857 | — | — |
| 2009 | 280 | #957 | — | — |
| 2008 | 299 | #917 | — | — |
| 2007 | 257 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 2006 | 202 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 2004 | 86 | #2,110 | — | — |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,181 | — | — |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,631 | — | — |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,186 | — | — |
| 2000 | 50 | #2,889 | — | — |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,422 | — | — |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,804 | — | — |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,283 | — | — |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,747 | — | — |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,511 | — | — |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,487 | — | — |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,189 | — | — |
| 1991 | 25 | #4,167 | — | — |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,192 | — | — |
| 1989 | 37 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,866 | — | — |
| 1987 | 38 | #2,643 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,784 | — | — |
| 1984 | 42 | #2,328 | — | — |
| 1983 | 61 | #1,766 | — | — |
| 1982 | 65 | #1,732 | — | — |
| 1981 | 53 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 1980 | 38 | #2,520 | — | — |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1978 | 62 | #1,703 | — | — |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,629 | — | — |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1975 | 40 | #2,153 | — | — |
| 1974 | 39 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 1972 | 37 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1970 | 66 | #1,513 | — | — |
| 1969 | 80 | #1,254 | — | — |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1967 | 65 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 1966 | 99 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1965 | 92 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1964 | 137 | #889 | — | — |
| 1963 | 118 | #981 | — | — |
| 1962 | 148 | #868 | — | — |
| 1961 | 155 | #855 | — | — |
| 1960 | 168 | #793 | — | — |
| 1959 | 252 | #627 | — | — |
| 1958 | 144 | #853 | — | — |
| 1957 | 159 | #804 | — | — |
| 1956 | 206 | #670 | — | — |
| 1955 | 195 | #671 | — | — |
| 1954 | 236 | #589 | — | — |
| 1953 | 255 | #545 | — | — |
| 1952 | 240 | #559 | — | — |
| 1951 | 249 | #529 | — | — |
| 1950 | 247 | #521 | — | — |
| 1949 | 223 | #558 | — | — |
| 1948 | 210 | #580 | — | — |
| 1947 | 252 | #527 | — | — |
| 1946 | 222 | #527 | — | — |
| 1945 | 231 | #473 | — | — |
| 1944 | 245 | #459 | — | — |
| 1943 | 291 | #431 | — | — |
| 1942 | 263 | #457 | — | — |
| 1941 | 279 | #411 | — | — |
| 1940 | 259 | #425 | — | — |
| 1939 | 273 | #408 | — | — |
| 1938 | 337 | #350 | — | — |
| 1937 | 294 | #378 | — | — |
| 1936 | 300 | #367 | — | — |
| 1935 | 286 | #375 | — | — |
| 1934 | 307 | #360 | — | — |
| 1933 | 281 | #384 | — | — |
| 1932 | 301 | #370 | — | — |
| 1931 | 300 | #371 | — | — |
| 1930 | 322 | #382 | — | — |
| 1929 | 328 | #372 | — | — |
| 1928 | 330 | #376 | — | — |
| 1927 | 361 | #359 | — | — |
| 1926 | 268 | #417 | 9 | #3,069 |
| 1925 | 279 | #415 | — | — |
| 1924 | 320 | #379 | — | — |
| 1923 | 312 | #375 | — | — |
| 1922 | 335 | #361 | — | — |
| 1921 | 324 | #374 | — | — |
| 1920 | 306 | #379 | — | — |
| 1919 | 343 | #348 | — | — |
| 1918 | 390 | #325 | — | — |
| 1917 | 307 | #358 | — | — |
| 1916 | 301 | #355 | — | — |
| 1915 | 320 | #334 | — | — |
| 1914 | 227 | #350 | — | — |
| 1913 | 205 | #337 | — | — |
| 1912 | 211 | #316 | — | — |
| 1911 | 168 | #307 | — | — |
| 1910 | 158 | #306 | — | — |
| 1909 | 172 | #275 | — | — |
| 1908 | 144 | #295 | — | — |
| 1907 | 142 | #294 | — | — |
| 1906 | 125 | #298 | — | — |
| 1905 | 127 | #296 | — | — |
| 1904 | 140 | #266 | — | — |
| 1903 | 131 | #271 | — | — |
| 1902 | 131 | #272 | — | — |
| 1901 | 93 | #313 | — | — |
| 1900 | 129 | #289 | — | — |
| 1899 | 106 | #283 | — | — |
| 1898 | 122 | #278 | — | — |
| 1897 | 74 | #342 | — | — |
| 1896 | 108 | #280 | — | — |
| 1895 | 111 | #266 | — | — |
| 1894 | 118 | #254 | — | — |
| 1893 | 90 | #279 | — | — |
| 1892 | 62 | #337 | — | — |
| 1891 | 78 | #285 | — | — |
| 1890 | 60 | #327 | — | — |
| 1889 | 69 | #288 | — | — |
| 1888 | 54 | #329 | — | — |
| 1887 | 55 | #288 | — | — |
| 1886 | 51 | #289 | — | — |
| 1885 | 39 | #328 | — | — |
| 1884 | 34 | #338 | — | — |
| 1883 | 30 | #329 | — | — |
| 1882 | 37 | #292 | — | — |
| 1881 | 32 | #282 | — | — |
| 1880 | 23 | #340 | — | — |
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).