Girls' name · since 1916
Anola
Anola has 256 recorded births since 1916 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2021 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #17,365 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,906 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 256
- born since 1916
- 2020s
- peak decade
Anola currently ranks #8906 among girls' names in America, with 256 babies recorded since 1916.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Anola has been recorded 256 times among girls since 1916, currently ranked #8906 nationally and more common than 49% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1916 to 2025.
- #17,365 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #8,906 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 256 born since 1916
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Anola ranks #17,365 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #8,906 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 256 born since 1916, peaking in the 2020s.
- #17,365 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #8,906 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 256
- born since 1916
- 2020s
- peak decade
Anola's 256 recorded births place it above 75.95% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Anola compares
256 42nd percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Anola's all-time total is 32% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Anola | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 256 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 16 | 21 | 19,840 |
Anola's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Anola's SSA record in two at 1955 and the more recent half accounts for 57% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 43%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1918, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2021 peak of 16, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Anola popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1916–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 110 years of records
Anola by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (64 births, 25% of the file).
2020s was Anola's strongest decade.
64 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 25% of all-time use.
Anola births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1910s 24
1910s
24 births
- 1920s
1920s
32 births
- 1930s 15
1930s
15 births
- 1940s 15
1940s
15 births
- 1950s
1950s
41 births
- 1960s 7
1960s
7 births
- 2000s
2000s
26 births
- 2010s
2010s
32 births
- 2020s
2020s
64 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 64 births (25% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1916–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Anola draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.