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Jola

#15,973 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Jolanta

Jola has been given to 99 babies in the U.S. since 1931. In 2025 it ranked #15,973 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1953, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Jola, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jola: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Jolanta

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jola means

Jola is a short form of Jolanta.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jola is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈjɔ.la/ for Jola.

Origin, language, and formation

Jola is used in Czech and Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jolanta and Jolana.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Jola is pronounced [ˈjola].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 99 girls were recorded with the name Jola between 1931 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1953; its best national rank was #3,183 in 1953.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #15,343 in 2015 to #15,973 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jola?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,973
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jola 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jolas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jola was born before 1959 — so the typical Jola is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
34.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
82
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1950s — 34.3% of all recorded uses (34).

Is Jola 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
−630
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.83×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.5%
Peak was 1953 (13)
Years since peak
72
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,183
1953

Spellings of Jola

Jola is not the most common spelling — Joan is, with 10.8% against Jola'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.

Jola around the world

Where Jola 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.

  • South Australia
    1970–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jola by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,973
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#3,183
1953
Peak year
1953
13 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
99
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Jola

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

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Sibling names for Jola

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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