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Enola

#3,482 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Enola has been given to 3,084 babies in the U.S. since 1885. In 2025 it ranked #3,482 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1953, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Enola, 2025

1 in 75,300

Enola over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Enola: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Enola means

Enola is a given name.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Created for the titular character in the 1886 American novel Enola, derived from alone spelled backwards.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Enola (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Enola is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,084 girls were recorded with the name Enola between 1885 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1953; its best national rank was #617 in 1893.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,719 in 2020 to #3,482 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #10,357 in 2015 to #3,482 in 2025.

How common is Enola?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 75,300
44 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 36,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,482
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
52,226 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Enola sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 52,226 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Enola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Enolas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Enola was born before 1935 — so the typical Enola is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
18.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
18.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,212
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Choose a decade

1920s — 18.2% of all recorded uses (561).

Is Enola 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
−582
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,237
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,875
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.40×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.4%
Peak was 1953 (99)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
64.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#617
1893

Spellings of Enola

Enola is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 29.6% against Enola's 0.26%.

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.

Where Enola is used

Across 1910–2025, Enola was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 4,000 girls, against 1 in 94,923 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

025 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 4,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in —
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Indiana1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7North Carolina1 in —
  8. 8New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Enola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Enola around the world

Where Enola 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 & Wales
    1997–2025
    #1,271
    in 2025
  • France
    1990–2025
    #288
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #1,709
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1956–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Enola by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,482
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,237
Best rank ever
#617
1893
Peak year
1953
99 that year
First recorded
1885
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,084
Count in 2025
44

Names similar to Enola

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Enola

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Enola, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Enola

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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