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Iolana

#13,858 in 2025Girls' name

To soar

Iolana has been given to 104 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #13,858 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Iolana, 2025

1 in 553,000

Iolana over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iolana: meaning, origin, and history

To soar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iolana means

Iolana means “to soar”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Iolana is used in Hawaiian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 girls were recorded with the name Iolana between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 2020; its best national rank was #6,738 in 2020.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,738 in 2020 to #13,858 in 2025.

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.

How common is Iolana?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,858
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iolana 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iolana. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Iolanas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iolana was born before 2018 — so the typical Iolana is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
104
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Iolana 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
−2,356
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−7,120
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
35.3%
Peak was 2020 (17)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,738
2020

Spellings of Iolana

Iolana is not the most common spelling — Yolanda is, with 28.5% against Iolana's 0.03%.

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 Iolana is used

Across 1910–2025, Iolana was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Iolana has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Iolana around the world

Where Iolana 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.

  • France
    2004–2004
    #4,256
    in 2004

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Iolana by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,858
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 7,120
Best rank ever
#6,738
2020
Peak year
2020
17 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Iolana

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

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Sibling names for Iolana

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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