girls:
259 births since 1894
#5457 (4th percentile)
boys:
81 births since 1914
#4505 (2nd percentile)
overall:
340 births since 1894
#7399 (4th percentile)
The name Cola is the #7,399 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 340 recorded births since 1894. This represents the 4.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,457 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 259 births since 1894. For boys, it ranks #4,505 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 81 births since 1914.
Cola first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1894 (1894 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Cola is available in 34 out of the 94 years between 1894 and 1987 (30 years for girls and 14 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Cola has been given predominantly to girls, with 76.2% of all recorded births being female. In 1987, 100.0% of babies named Cola were girls.
For girls, Cola reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #561) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 40 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1987.
For boys, Cola reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #532) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 10 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1960.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Cola".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Cola is pronounced as KOH-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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