Meaning not yet researched.
Ola: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #140 in 1886.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #140 in 1886; #8,227 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ola in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,227 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1886, at #140.
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Ola: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #140 in 1886 · most girls in one year: 755 (1921).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Ola, making it the 8,227th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,050 places from #7,177 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 16 girls named Ola in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #140, reached in 1886. The most girls given the name in a single year was 755, in 1921. For comparison, it was #6,917 in 2015 and #569 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ola in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 67 babies with the name. In all, 30,275 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 6,646 babies named Ola.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 142 US girls were named Ola; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Lola (97,167 babies since 1880), Ila (25,120 babies since 1880), Iola (9,659 babies since 1880) and Olaf (2,531 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Olla, Ulla and Jola 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 Czech, Norwegian and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Olla (552), Ulla (105), Jola (99), Ulah (83), Olaya (67), Olah (15), Olaia (5), Oella (5).
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 Ola in the open dataset we use.
Ola is listed as a nickname for Viola.
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 | 13 | #8,227 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,177 | — | — |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,861 | — | — |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,914 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,127 | — | — |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,858 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,491 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,654 | — | — |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,027 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,610 | — | — |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,917 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,697 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,726 | — | — |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,357 | — | — |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,523 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,018 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,455 | — | — |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,435 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,603 | — | — |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,142 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,957 | — | — |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,600 | — | — |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,237 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,323 | — | — |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,595 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,406 | — | — |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,412 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,616 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,609 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,652 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,557 | — | — |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,971 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,517 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,547 | — | — |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,809 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,331 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,761 | — | — |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,131 | — | — |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,216 | — | — |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,849 | — | — |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,019 | — | — |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,973 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,887 | — | — |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,261 | 5 | #6,989 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,166 | — | — |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,600 | — | — |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,097 | 7 | #4,780 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,887 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,570 | — | — |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,340 | 6 | #4,583 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,685 | — | — |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1963 | 58 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1962 | 72 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1961 | 89 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,275 | — | — |
| 1959 | 107 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1958 | 104 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1957 | 109 | #998 | — | — |
| 1956 | 121 | #919 | — | — |
| 1955 | 130 | #852 | — | — |
| 1954 | 167 | #717 | 5 | #4,211 |
| 1953 | 170 | #704 | 6 | #3,687 |
| 1952 | 203 | #615 | — | — |
| 1951 | 195 | #614 | 6 | #3,617 |
| 1950 | 216 | #569 | 5 | #4,052 |
| 1949 | 238 | #540 | — | — |
| 1948 | 232 | #543 | 9 | #2,739 |
| 1947 | 279 | #491 | — | — |
| 1946 | 252 | #490 | 6 | #3,425 |
| 1945 | 242 | #459 | — | — |
| 1944 | 301 | #417 | 9 | #2,584 |
| 1943 | 335 | #399 | 8 | #2,901 |
| 1942 | 293 | #422 | — | — |
| 1941 | 309 | #392 | 11 | #2,296 |
| 1940 | 349 | #346 | 6 | #3,368 |
| 1939 | 337 | #347 | 7 | #3,037 |
| 1938 | 323 | #363 | 10 | #2,436 |
| 1937 | 363 | #328 | 11 | #2,297 |
| 1936 | 376 | #313 | 13 | #2,035 |
| 1935 | 406 | #305 | 8 | #2,877 |
| 1934 | 445 | #292 | 8 | #2,893 |
| 1933 | 414 | #300 | 10 | #2,497 |
| 1932 | 498 | #278 | 12 | #2,282 |
| 1931 | 459 | #292 | 16 | #1,905 |
| 1930 | 529 | #284 | 15 | #2,041 |
| 1929 | 523 | #282 | 11 | #2,556 |
| 1928 | 527 | #285 | 21 | #1,685 |
| 1927 | 631 | #263 | 16 | #2,102 |
| 1926 | 616 | #268 | 14 | #2,273 |
| 1925 | 678 | #253 | 9 | #3,080 |
| 1924 | 679 | #251 | 16 | #2,109 |
| 1923 | 630 | #254 | 14 | #2,297 |
| 1922 | 698 | #245 | 21 | #1,744 |
| 1921 | 755 | #240 | 15 | #2,235 |
| 1920 | 748 | #239 | 24 | #1,581 |
| 1919 | 735 | #234 | 23 | #1,567 |
| 1918 | 689 | #244 | 15 | #2,132 |
| 1917 | 723 | #229 | 15 | #2,062 |
| 1916 | 672 | #237 | 22 | #1,536 |
| 1915 | 611 | #240 | 23 | #1,443 |
| 1914 | 571 | #218 | 15 | #1,664 |
| 1913 | 471 | #220 | 12 | #1,648 |
| 1912 | 509 | #193 | 8 | #2,004 |
| 1911 | 364 | #195 | — | — |
| 1910 | 422 | #167 | 10 | #1,098 |
| 1909 | 325 | #184 | — | — |
| 1908 | 368 | #165 | 7 | #1,189 |
| 1907 | 350 | #168 | 10 | #916 |
| 1906 | 341 | #163 | — | — |
| 1905 | 344 | #162 | 8 | #981 |
| 1904 | 335 | #163 | — | — |
| 1903 | 309 | #160 | — | — |
| 1902 | 362 | #147 | 5 | #1,261 |
| 1901 | 324 | #152 | 7 | #918 |
| 1900 | 352 | #160 | 5 | #1,446 |
| 1899 | 280 | #160 | 6 | #1,017 |
| 1898 | 327 | #157 | — | — |
| 1897 | 266 | #168 | 5 | #1,183 |
| 1896 | 273 | #162 | 9 | #812 |
| 1895 | 261 | #163 | — | — |
| 1894 | 264 | #161 | 6 | #1,046 |
| 1893 | 264 | #149 | — | — |
| 1892 | 259 | #154 | — | — |
| 1891 | 219 | #154 | — | — |
| 1890 | 239 | #149 | 7 | #857 |
| 1889 | 209 | #151 | 10 | #659 |
| 1888 | 200 | #156 | 8 | #800 |
| 1887 | 170 | #148 | 5 | #1,022 |
| 1886 | 186 | #140 | 7 | #822 |
| 1885 | 139 | #155 | — | — |
| 1884 | 121 | #161 | 8 | #741 |
| 1883 | 126 | #147 | — | — |
| 1882 | 113 | #154 | — | — |
| 1881 | 90 | #152 | 8 | #687 |
| 1880 | 67 | #184 | — | — |
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).