Ola
Ola is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 16 births. Its best rank was 140th, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 160.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1921755 births
- Best rank
- #140in 1886
- Since 1880
- 30,261people given the name
The story in the numbers
29,637 girls have been named Ola in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 755 births.
The name has all but left use: 16 births in 2024, against 755 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 78 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 624 boys have also been given it, 2.1% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ola | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,421 | |
| 1890s | 2,652 | |
| 1900s | 3,410 | |
| 1910s | 5,767 | |
| 1920s | 6,485 | |
| 1930s | 4,151 | |
| 1940s | 2,829 | |
| 1950s | 1,522 | |
| 1960s | 508 | |
| 1970s | 248 | |
| 1980s | 201 | |
| 1990s | 132 | |
| 2000s | 117 | |
| 2010s | 125 | |
| 2020s | 69 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Ola was the 240th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Ola
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dessiepeak 1918
- Maepeak 1918
- Alphapeak 1916
- Altapeak 1918
- Verniepeak 1916
- Lelapeak 1921
- Floridapeak 1925
- Onapeak 1916
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.