Lola Girl
How popular is Lola?
#275 girl name in 2025
1,132 baby girls were named Lola in the US in 2025, making it the 275th most popular girl name.
Lola popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #275 for girls (▼ 4 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,132 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-22% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #224 in 2015, #236 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1919 (1,617 girls) |
| Highest rank | #99 in 1904 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.8% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Lola counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Lola family of names ranked #287 for girls in 2025 (#291 the year before), with 1,141 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Lola | 1,132 | 99% |
| Lolah | 9 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Lola is most popular
Babies named Lola per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Utah: 2.2 per 1,000 (181 girls)
- Minnesota: 1.6 per 1,000 (175 girls)
- Montana: 1.6 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- Oregon: 1.5 per 1,000 (95 girls)
- North Dakota: 1.4 per 1,000 (19 girls)
Lola by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,054 | #117 |
| 1890s | 4,217 | #107 |
| 1900s | 5,949 | #99 |
| 1910s | 11,765 | #120 |
| 1920s | 14,654 | #147 |
| 1930s | 10,391 | #156 |
| 1940s | 7,624 | #203 |
| 1950s | 5,542 | #309 |
| 1960s | 2,864 | #483 |
| 1970s | 1,591 | #736 |
| 1980s | 853 | #986 |
| 1990s | 528 | #1,948 |
| 2000s | 7,817 | #222 |
| 2010s | 13,900 | #211 |
| 2020s | 7,143 | #236 |
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Questions
- Is Lola a boy or girl name?
- Lola is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Lola were girls.
- How popular is the name Lola?
- 1,132 baby girls were named Lola in the US in 2025, making it the 275th most popular girl name.
- When was Lola most popular?
- Lola peaked in 1919, when 1,617 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #99 in 1904.
- How many people are named Lola?
- 97,167 babies have been named Lola in the US since 1880. We estimate about 46,644 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 18.
- Where is Lola most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Lola was most common in Utah, at 2.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.