Izola — girls' name
1,119 babies named Izola in U.S. Social Security records since 1896, with the highest year being 1923. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
31% of everyone ever named Izola was born in this single decade.
59 babies were named Izola in 1923 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Izola
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,119 babies named Izola between 1896 and 2017, spanning 122 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Izola currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 59 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Izola performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 344 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Izola shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 56 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Izola in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Izola 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 1,119 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.
Izola at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Izola popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1896
- Peak year (1923)
- 59
- Annual births at peak — across 122 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
1,119 total births across 122 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1923 with 59 births in a single year.
Izola by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 344 births that decade — 31% of Izola's all-time total
Izola decade highlights
- Peak decade 344 births
- Runner-up 277 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Izola's strongest decade
344 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 31% of all-time use.
Izola by state
Where Izola concentrates geographically — total births since 1896
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Arkansas | | 56 | 5.0% |
| #2 | Alabama | | 27 | 2.4% |
| #3 | Georgia | | 11 | 1.0% |
| #4 | Mississippi | | 10 | 0.9% |
| #5 | Texas | | 10 | 0.9% |
| #6 | Louisiana | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #7 | Missouri | | 5 | 0.4% |
| #8 | South Carolina | | 5 | 0.4% |
56 of 1,119 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 8 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Arkansas 5.0% of nationwide
- Alabama 2.4% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.0% of nationwide
- Mississippi 0.9% of nationwide
- Texas 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 8 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Arkansas accounts for 5.0% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1896–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.