# Zola (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/zola/  
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 | 9,312 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 26 / 9,286 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 269, 1996 to 2025 |

## 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 | 57 | 3,013 |
| 2012 | 96 | 2,027 |
| 2013 | 101 | 1,967 |
| 2014 | 127 | 1,673 |
| 2015 | 130 | 1,654 |
| 2016 | 186 | 1,293 |
| 2017 | 240 | 1,068 |
| 2018 | 278 | 954 |
| 2019 | 266 | 977 |
| 2020 | 277 | 935 |
| 2021 | 265 | 982 |
| 2022 | 250 | 1,029 |
| 2023 | 219 | 1,123 |
| 2024 | 222 | 1,104 |
| 2025 | 167 | 1,338 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 6 | 3,896 |
| 1917 | 5 | 4,602 |
| 1922 | 5 | 4,966 |
| 1923 | 5 | 4,903 |
| 2018 | 5 | 14,108 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 9 | 2,636 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,887 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,367 |
| 2017 | 14 | 1,995 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,977 |
| 2019 | 12 | 2,170 |
| 2020 | 11 | 2,300 |
| 2021 | 21 | 1,454 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,640 |
| 2024 | 23 | 1,406 |
| 2025 | 26 | 1,229 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 3 | 4,805 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## 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.