Eola
Eola was last recorded in 1956, when 6 babies were given it; 740 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1956 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Eola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Eola?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,486, in 1956; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1922, the peak
Eola peaked in 1922, when 37 girls were given it, #1,292 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 6 | #5,486 | 3.0 |
| 1954 | 5 | #5,989 | 2.6 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,850 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,831 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,482 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,597 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,756 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,318 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,249 | 6.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,340 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 5 | #4,545 | 4.4 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,985 | 8.2 |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,370 | 11.8 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,356 | 12.2 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,791 | 9.5 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,465 | 11.5 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,739 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,884 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,834 | 9.4 |
| 1930 | 16 | #2,134 | 14.2 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,224 | 13.4 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,037 | 15.6 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,917 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 17 | #2,190 | 14.3 |
| 1925 | 26 | #1,655 | 21.4 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,078 | 15.2 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,962 | 16.6 |
| 1922 | 37 | #1,292 | 30.8 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,787 | 19.5 |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,906 | 17.5 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,539 | 23.9 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,769 | 19.0 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,867 | 17.6 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,456 | 24.9 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,642 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,400 | 27.6 |
| 1913 | 27 | #1,049 | 43.2 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,495 | 25.1 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,481 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 11 | #1,452 | 27.7 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,508 | 25.9 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,928 | 17.9 |
| 1907 | 8 | #1,544 | 25.1 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,607 | 23.7 |
| 1905 | 12 | #1,113 | 41.1 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,532 | 25.4 |
| 1903 | 13 | #994 | 49.6 |
| 1902 | 10 | #1,158 | 37.9 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,792 | 20.0 |
| 1899 | 12 | #942 | 51.5 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,571 | 23.2 |
| 1897 | 8 | #1,195 | 34.2 |
| 1896 | 6 | #1,468 | 25.2 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,087 | 40.4 |
| 1893 | 8 | #1,118 | 37.6 |
| 1892 | 13 | #838 | 61.2 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,249 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 6 | #1,254 | 31.5 |
| 1880 | 6 | #775 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Eola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Eola has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Eola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Eola, and how old are they?
An estimated 68 Americans named Eola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 136 people named Eola (134 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 114 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Eola born?
The states with the most babies named Eola are Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Louisiana and Mississippi are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 124 | not ranked | 9.7× |
| Mississippi | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Eola is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Eola is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 9.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Eola with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 440,090 babies since 1880, Eola is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 7,128 babies recorded by SSA was a Eola (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Eola
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Eola and names like it
- Compare Eola and EllaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sEola peaked in 1922.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Eola since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Eola.
- Names starting with EMost given first.