Nola Girl
How popular is Nola?
#821 girl name in 2025
331 baby girls were named Nola in the US in 2025, making it the 821st most popular girl name.
Nola popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #821 for girls (▼ 59 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 331 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-10% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #769 in 2015, #553 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2020 (537 girls) |
| Highest rank | #249 in 1894 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Nola counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Nola family of names ranked #749 for girls in 2025 (#697 the year before), with 342 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Nola | 331 | 97% |
| Nolah | 11 | 3% |
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 Nola is most popular
Babies named Nola per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Louisiana: 1.0 per 1,000 (84 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.8 per 1,000 (38 girls)
- Georgia: 0.5 per 1,000 (121 girls)
- District of Columbia: 0.5 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Alabama: 0.5 per 1,000 (47 girls)
Nola by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 424 | #279 |
| 1890s | 929 | #249 |
| 1900s | 1,334 | #265 |
| 1910s | 2,630 | #306 |
| 1920s | 3,163 | #357 |
| 1930s | 3,001 | #350 |
| 1940s | 2,475 | #411 |
| 1950s | 2,183 | #519 |
| 1960s | 1,130 | #789 |
| 1970s | 516 | #1,473 |
| 1980s | 422 | #1,720 |
| 1990s | 305 | #3,221 |
| 2000s | 1,461 | #916 |
| 2010s | 3,696 | #605 |
| 2020s | 2,593 | #553 |
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Questions
- Is Nola a boy or girl name?
- Nola is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Nola were girls.
- How popular is the name Nola?
- 331 baby girls were named Nola in the US in 2025, making it the 821st most popular girl name.
- When was Nola most popular?
- Nola peaked in 2020, when 537 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #249 in 1894.
- How many people are named Nola?
- 26,271 babies have been named Nola in the US since 1880. We estimate about 14,149 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 19.
- Where is Nola most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Nola was most common in Louisiana, at 1.0 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.