Ola
Ola was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,225 among girls’ names; 30,275 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,100 Americans named Ola and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (17% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 66 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ola by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Ola mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Ola is “a female given name used in the U.S. in the end of the nineteenth century.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Ola?
#8,225 among girls’ names, 2025
Ola fell from #6,914 in 2015 to #8,225 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.1 to 8.1 per million.
772 babies in 1920, the peak
Ola peaked in 1920, when 772 babies were given it (748 girls, #239 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,225 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,173 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 17 | #6,856 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,909 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,122 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,853 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,486 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,649 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 17 | #7,023 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,607 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,914 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,691 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,721 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,350 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,519 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,012 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,449 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,431 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,597 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,139 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,952 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,595 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,232 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,317 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,588 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,399 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,406 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,611 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,604 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,647 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,552 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,966 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,511 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,541 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,802 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,325 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,755 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,126 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,211 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,847 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,017 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,972 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,511 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,997 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,886 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,260 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,165 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,600 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,339 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,095 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,128 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,887 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,159 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,570 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #2,924 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,340 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,685 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,195 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 27 | #2,362 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 48 | #1,628 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,941 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 47 | #1,699 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 58 | #1,473 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 72 | #1,310 | 0.04 |
| 1961 | 89 | #1,172 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 75 | #1,274 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 107 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 104 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1957 | 109 | #997 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 121 | #918 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 130 | #851 | 0.07 |
| 1954 | 167 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1953 | 170 | #703 | 0.09 |
| 1952 | 203 | #614 | 0.11 |
| 1951 | 195 | #613 | 0.11 |
| 1950 | 216 | #568 | 0.13 |
| 1949 | 238 | #539 | 0.14 |
| 1948 | 232 | #542 | 0.14 |
| 1947 | 279 | #491 | 0.16 |
| 1946 | 252 | #490 | 0.16 |
| 1945 | 242 | #459 | 0.19 |
| 1944 | 301 | #417 | 0.23 |
| 1943 | 335 | #399 | 0.24 |
| 1942 | 293 | #422 | 0.22 |
| 1941 | 309 | #392 | 0.26 |
| 1940 | 349 | #346 | 0.31 |
| 1939 | 337 | #347 | 0.31 |
| 1938 | 323 | #363 | 0.29 |
| 1937 | 363 | #328 | 0.34 |
| 1936 | 376 | #313 | 0.36 |
| 1935 | 406 | #305 | 0.39 |
| 1934 | 445 | #292 | 0.43 |
| 1933 | 414 | #300 | 0.41 |
| 1932 | 498 | #278 | 0.47 |
| 1931 | 459 | #292 | 0.43 |
| 1930 | 529 | #284 | 0.47 |
| 1929 | 523 | #282 | 0.47 |
| 1928 | 527 | #285 | 0.46 |
| 1927 | 631 | #263 | 0.53 |
| 1926 | 616 | #268 | 0.52 |
| 1925 | 678 | #253 | 0.56 |
| 1924 | 679 | #251 | 0.54 |
| 1923 | 630 | #254 | 0.52 |
| 1922 | 698 | #245 | 0.58 |
| 1921 | 755 | #240 | 0.61 |
| 1920 | 748 | #239 | 0.62 |
| 1919 | 735 | #234 | 0.65 |
| 1918 | 689 | #244 | 0.60 |
| 1917 | 723 | #229 | 0.67 |
| 1916 | 672 | #237 | 0.64 |
| 1915 | 611 | #240 | 0.62 |
| 1914 | 571 | #218 | 0.75 |
| 1913 | 471 | #220 | 0.75 |
| 1912 | 509 | #193 | 0.91 |
| 1911 | 364 | #195 | 0.87 |
| 1910 | 422 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 1909 | 325 | #184 | 0.94 |
| 1908 | 368 | #165 | 1.1 |
| 1907 | 350 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 1906 | 341 | #163 | 1.2 |
| 1905 | 344 | #162 | 1.2 |
| 1904 | 335 | #163 | 1.2 |
| 1903 | 309 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 1902 | 362 | #147 | 1.4 |
| 1901 | 324 | #152 | 1.4 |
| 1900 | 352 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 1899 | 280 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 1898 | 327 | #157 | 1.3 |
| 1897 | 266 | #168 | 1.1 |
| 1896 | 273 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 1895 | 261 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 1894 | 264 | #161 | 1.2 |
| 1893 | 264 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 1892 | 259 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 1891 | 219 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 1890 | 239 | #149 | 1.3 |
| 1889 | 209 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 1888 | 200 | #156 | 1.1 |
| 1887 | 170 | #148 | 1.2 |
| 1886 | 186 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 1885 | 139 | #155 | 1.0 |
| 1884 | 121 | #161 | 0.94 |
| 1883 | 126 | #147 | 1.1 |
| 1882 | 113 | #154 | 1.0 |
| 1881 | 90 | #152 | 1.0 |
| 1880 | 67 | #184 | 0.74 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ola a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 30,275 Americans recorded as Ola, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 13 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ola: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ola, and how old are they?
5,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 17% of the 30,275 Americans ever recorded as Ola. The median Ola alive today is 77 years old; half are between 66 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 6,832 people named Ola (6,295 women and girls, 537 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,964 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,850 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,140 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 416 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 265 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 187 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 177 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Ola born?
The states with the most babies named Ola are Texas, Georgia and Alabama, with 38% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 2,758 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Georgia | 2,419 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Alabama | 2,373 | not ranked | 3.7× |
| North Carolina | 1,638 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Mississippi | 1,362 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| Louisiana | 1,274 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Arkansas | 1,235 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Tennessee | 1,092 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| South Carolina | 1,072 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Oklahoma | 947 | not ranked | 2.0× |
Where Ola is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Ola is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1910 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Ola with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 31,242 babies since 1880, Ola is the most given (97% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 32 babies (41%), again the most given.
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 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ola
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ola and names like it
- Compare Ola and OllaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sOla peaked in 1920.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ola since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Ola.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Ola alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with OMost given first.