# Nola (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nola/  
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 | Irish |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 26,271 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9 / 26,262 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,004, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Finola, from Irish Fionnghuala. In the US, also under the influence of the male name Nolan (which see).

## 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 | 292 | 894 |
| 2012 | 334 | 805 |
| 2013 | 350 | 776 |
| 2014 | 348 | 804 |
| 2015 | 368 | 770 |
| 2016 | 350 | 821 |
| 2017 | 379 | 744 |
| 2018 | 461 | 643 |
| 2019 | 500 | 607 |
| 2020 | 537 | 553 |
| 2021 | 503 | 596 |
| 2022 | 472 | 627 |
| 2023 | 381 | 740 |
| 2024 | 369 | 765 |
| 2025 | 331 | 822 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 9 | 3,069 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 27 | 1,196 |
| 2012 | 25 | 1,297 |
| 2013 | 26 | 1,291 |
| 2014 | 43 | 877 |
| 2015 | 73 | 583 |
| 2016 | 73 | 573 |
| 2017 | 80 | 541 |
| 2018 | 124 | 365 |
| 2019 | 154 | 310 |
| 2020 | 186 | 252 |
| 2021 | 249 | 206 |
| 2022 | 227 | 214 |
| 2023 | 225 | 213 |
| 2024 | 210 | 226 |
| 2025 | 165 | 275 |

## People named Nola

- R'Bonney Gabriel, American beauty pageant titleholder (born 1994)

## 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.