# Enola (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/enola/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 3,084 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 3,084 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 350, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Created for the titular character in the 1886 American novel Enola, derived from alone spelled backwards.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 10 | 10,631 |
| 2012 | 5 | 17,690 |
| 2013 | 19 | 6,550 |
| 2014 | 15 | 7,798 |
| 2015 | 10 | 10,362 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,131 |
| 2017 | 16 | 7,199 |
| 2018 | 14 | 7,892 |
| 2019 | 8 | 11,689 |
| 2020 | 17 | 6,723 |
| 2021 | 90 | 2,108 |
| 2022 | 57 | 2,935 |
| 2023 | 70 | 2,527 |
| 2024 | 57 | 2,900 |
| 2025 | 44 | 3,483 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 5 | 3,860 |
| 2009 | 4 | 4,564 |
| 2010 | 15 | 1,815 |
| 2011 | 9 | 2,636 |
| 2012 | 10 | 2,521 |
| 2013 | 10 | 2,460 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,464 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,945 |
| 2017 | 3 | 5,765 |
| 2020 | 11 | 2,300 |
| 2021 | 51 | 734 |
| 2022 | 35 | 982 |
| 2023 | 53 | 677 |
| 2024 | 43 | 855 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,271 |

## People named Enola

- Shirley Knight, American actress (1936-2020)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.