Koula
Koula was last recorded in 1977, when 6 babies were given it; 55 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Koula by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Koula?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,015, in 1977; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1923, the peak
Koula peaked in 1923, when 8 girls were given it, #3,802 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 6 | #9,015 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,033 | 3.4 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,676 | 4.7 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,081 | 4.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,252 | 4.2 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,479 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,802 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,404 | 4.2 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,520 | 4.1 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,352 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Koula a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Koula has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Koula: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Koula, and how old are they?
An estimated 11 Americans named Koula 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 238 people named Koula (231 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 15 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15.9 times 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).
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.