girls:
25.6k births since 1880
#888 (84th percentile)
boys:
9 births since 1926
#4577 (0th percentile)
overall:
25.6k births since 1880
#1584 (80th percentile)
The name Nola is the #1,584 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,567 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 79.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #888 (84.5% percentile) for all time with 25,558 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,577 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 9 births since 1926.
Nola has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1926 for boys).
The name Nola has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Nola reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 49.5% percentile (ranked #475) with 304 births per million. The name was most common in 1894, with 500 births per million (ranked 33.3% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1992, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Nola ranks #594 for girls (37.3% percentile) with 217 births per million, which is 43.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Nola reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #547) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1926, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1926.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nola".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Nola. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Nola is pronounced as NOH-luh, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like N OW1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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