Vola
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Vola has been given to 694 babies in the U.S. since 1891. 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 1921, with 35 recorded.
Babies named Vola, 1956
1 in 824,000
Vola over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Vola?
Vola had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1956, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1956
- 1 in 824,000
- 5 of 4,122,003 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 401,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1956
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 571,432 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Vola sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1956 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 571,432 children born in 1956 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Vola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Volas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Vola was born before 1920 — so the typical Vola is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 29.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 19.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 29.4% of all recorded uses (199).
Is Vola 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 1921 (35)
- Years since peak
- 104
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 51.2% average annual change
Spellings of Vola
Vola is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 12.4% against Vola's 0.02%.
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 Vola is used
Across 1910–2025, Vola was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 130,537 across all states with data. It was least common in Kentucky (1 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. Vola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Vola by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Vola
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Vola
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.