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Tola

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Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Tola has been given to 110 babies in the U.S. since 1899. 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 2010, with 11 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Tola, 2020

1 in 668,000

Tola over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Tola over time

In 2020, Tola went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18992020

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Tola: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tola means

Tola has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Tola

One of the source’s documented entries for Tola records a meaning of October.

Origin, language, and formation

Tola is used in Polish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Otylia, Anatolia and Tolisława.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Tola is pronounced /ˈtɔ.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 104 girls were recorded with the name Tola between 1899 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2010; its best national rank was #1,578 in 1899.

In the United States, 6 boys were recorded with the name Tola between 1981 and 1981. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1981; its best national rank was #6,190 in 1981.

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 Tola?

Tola had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2020, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2020
1 in 668,000
5 of 3,342,313 births
Among girls only
1 in 323,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2020
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,344 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tola 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 2020 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 463,344 children born in 2020 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tolas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tola was born before 1929 — so the typical Tola is around 96 today.

Median birth year
1929
About 96 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
37
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1910s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Tola 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2010 (11)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,578
1899

Spellings of Tola

Tola is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 10.1% against Tola'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.

Tola around the world

Where Tola 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
    2007–2023
    #4,710
    in 2023
  • Scotland
    2014–2014
    #802
    in 2014
  • Ireland
    2013–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1987–1987
    #684
    in 1987

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Tola 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,578
1899
Peak year
2010
11 that year
First recorded
1899
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
104
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,190
1981
Peak year
1981
6 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
1981
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tola

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

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Sibling names for Tola

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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