girls:
740 births since 1880
#4976 (13th percentile)
overall:
740 births since 1880
#6999 (10th percentile)
The name Eola is the #6,999 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 740 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 9.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,976 (12.9% percentile) for all time with 740 births since 1880.
Eola has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Eola is available in 59 out of the 77 years between 1880 and 1956. 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.
For girls, Eola reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #565) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 61 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1956.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Eola".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Eola. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.2% confident that Eola is pronounced as ee-OH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is EE-oh-luh, at 29.7% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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