Girls' name · since 1931
Jola
99 babies named Jola in U.S. Social Security records since 1931, with the highest year being 1953. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 99
- total births
- 1931–2025
- years on record
- 1950s
- peak decade
- 34%
- born in that decade
Jola sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 99 recorded since 1931.
Jola has 99 recorded births among girls since 1931, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1950s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1931 to 2025.
- 99 total births
- 1931–2025 years on record
- 1950s peak decade
- 34% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jola's 99 recorded births place it above 62% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jola's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jola's full recorded timeline at 1962, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1931, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1953 peak of 13 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jola popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1931–2025
- Peak year (1953)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 95 years of records
Jola by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1950s was Jola's strongest decade.
34 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 34% of all-time use.
Jola births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1930s 11
1930s
11 births
- 1940s 6
1940s
6 births
- 1950s
1950s
34 births
- 1960s
1960s
16 births
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 2010s 13
2010s
13 births
- 2020s 13
2020s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 1950s at 34 births (34% of all-time use).
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- Jola's usage has stayed within range of its 1950s decade-level peak (34 total births) through the 2020s (13) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1931–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jola: Baby Name Since 1931 - 99 Births, Peak 1953." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jola. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jola draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.