Nola — #765 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Nola

The Social Security Administration has registered 25,927 babies named Nola between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nola currently holds the #765 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 537 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Nola performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,695 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Nola shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,312 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Nola in 48 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Nola 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 25,927 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.