Jola
Jola was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,973 among girls’ names; 99 Americans have been recorded with it since 1931 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jola mean?
Wiktionary, Polish section
Jola is “a diminutive of the female given name Jolanta”
Clipping of Jolanta.
/ˈjɔ.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Polish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jola?
#15,973 among girls’ names, 2025
Jola fell from #15,343 in 2015 to #15,973 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 3.4 to 3.1 per million.
13 babies in 1953, the peak
Jola peaked in 1953, when 13 girls were given it, #3,183 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,973 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,582 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,063 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,343 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,451 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,484 | 3.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,214 | 2.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,167 | 3.1 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,675 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,489 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 5 | #6,134 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,183 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 6 | #4,988 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,922 | 3.5 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,067 | 5.4 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,658 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jola has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jola, and how old are they?
An estimated 78 Americans named Jola 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 340 people named Jola (317 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 71 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jola rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.