Anola
#8,922 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Anola has been given to 256 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #8,922 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 16 recorded.
Babies named Anola, 2025
1 in 301,000
Anola over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Anola?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,922
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,901 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Anola sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Anola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Anolas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Anola was born before 1963 — so the typical Anola is around 62 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 25.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 47.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 170
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 25.0% of all recorded uses (64).
Is Anola rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +2,285
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +84
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,010
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.38×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 68.8%
- Peak was 2021 (16)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.4% average annual change
Spellings of Anola
Anola is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 32.2% against Anola's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Anola around the world
Where Anola ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2016–2025#4,867in 2025
- France2003–2003#4,633in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Anola by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Anola
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Anola
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.