girls:
306 births since 1891
#5410 (5th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1914
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
311 births since 1891
#7428 (4th percentile)
The name Gola is the #7,428 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 311 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 4.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,410 (5.3% percentile) for all time with 306 births since 1891. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1914.
Gola first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (1891 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Gola is available in 43 out of the 75 years between 1891 and 1965 (43 years for girls and 1 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 Gola has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Gola reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #503) with 16 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 29 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1965.
For boys, Gola reached its peak popularity in 1914, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #456) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1914.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gola".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Gola. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.9% confident that Gola is pronounced as GOH-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is GOH-lah, at 8.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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