Nolia — girls' name
564 babies named Nolia in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 1920. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
21% of everyone ever named Nolia was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Nolia in 1920 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Nolia
The Social Security Administration has registered 564 babies named Nolia between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Nolia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Nolia performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 121 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Nolia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Louisiana, which accounts for 71 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Nolia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Nolia 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 564 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.
Nolia at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Nolia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1880
- Peak year (1920)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 144 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
564 total births across 144 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1920 with 19 births in a single year.
Nolia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1920s
- 121 births that decade — 21% of Nolia's all-time total
Nolia decade highlights
- Peak decade 121 births
- Runner-up 110 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1920s was Nolia's strongest decade
121 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Nolia by state
Where Nolia concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Louisiana | | 71 | 12.6% |
71 of 564 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Louisiana 12.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Louisiana accounts for 12.6% 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, 1880–2023 (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.