Enola — #2881 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Enola

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,040 babies named Enola between 1885 and 2024, spanning 140 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Enola currently holds the #2881 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1953, when 99 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Enola performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 561 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Enola shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 713 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Enola in 13 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Enola 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 3,040 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.