Inola

#9,712 in 2025Girls' name

Black fox

Inola has been given to 155 babies in the U.S. since 1909. In 2025 it ranked #9,712 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Inola, 2025

1 in 332,000

Inola over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Inola: meaning, origin, and history

Black fox

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Inola means

Inola means “black fox”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 155 girls were recorded with the name Inola between 1909 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1920; its best national rank was #1,667 in 1909.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Inola?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 332,000; 10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 161,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #9,712; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 229,791 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Inola 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Inola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Inolas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Inola was born before 1923 — so the typical Inola is around 102 today.

Median birth year: 1923; About 102 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 24.5%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 38; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Inola 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: +4,430; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 90.9%; Peak was 1920 (11)
Years since peak: 105; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 33.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,667; 1909

Spellings of Inola

Inola is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 21.3% against Inola's 0.02%.

Nora21.3%193,138
Viola14.7%132,993
Lola10.7%96,892
Isla6.4%58,252
Nova6.1%55,783
Ina3.8%34,074
Ola3.3%29,651
Leola3.1%28,129

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 Inola is used

Across 1910–2025, Inola was most concentrated in Oklahoma — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 217,581 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Oklahoma1 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. Inola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Inola around the world

Where Inola 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
1997–2016
#4,763
in 2016
France
1997–2024
#6,306
in 2024

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.

Inola by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #9,712
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #1,667; 1909
Peak year: 1920; 11 that year
First recorded: 1909
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 155
Count in 2025: 10

Names similar to Inola

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

Inori Anola Xola Winola Jola Sola Teola Eniola Beola Teniola Adeola Evola Isola Rola Peola Finola Rayola Abiola Etola Deola Minola Nikola Ezola Pahola

Sibling names for Inola

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

For a sister

Lida Margarette Adell Beryl Vina Albina Garnet Leta

For a brother

Trinidad Regis Junius Winfield Vern Antone Buford Cletus

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