Cola — unisex name

What the Data Says About Cola

The Social Security Administration has registered 259 babies named Cola between 1894 and 1987, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Cola currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1987. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Cola is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 81 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Cola performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 84 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Cola shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Cola in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Cola in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 259 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.