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Iole

Girls' name

From Ancient Greek Ἰόλη; literal meaning unconfirmed

Iole has been given to 18 babies in the U.S. since 1917. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1917, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Iole, 1925

1 in 389,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Iole: meaning, origin, and history

From Ancient Greek Ἰόλη; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Iole means

Iole is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Iole is used in Italian.

Iole comes through Ancient Greek Ἰόλη.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Iole between 1917 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1917; its best national rank was #4,319 in 1917.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Iole?

Iole had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1925, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1925
1 in 389,000
6 of 2,333,232 births
Among girls only
1 in 203,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1925
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
269,547 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Iole 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 1925 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 269,547 children born in 1925 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Iole. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ioles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Iole was born before 1922 — so the typical Iole is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
66.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 66.7% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Iole 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1917 (6)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,319
1917

Spellings of Iole

Iole is not the most common spelling — Nicole is, with 27.9% against Iole'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.

Iole around the world

Where Iole 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
    2013–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • France
    1920–1950
    #1,413
    in 1950
  • South Australia
    1962–1962
    #446
    in 1962

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

Iole by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,319
1917
Peak year
1917
6 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Iole

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

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Sibling names for Iole

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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