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Yola

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Yola has been given to 587 babies in the U.S. since 1900. 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 1915, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Yola, 1983

1 in 577,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yola: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yola means

Yola is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Yola is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 587 girls were recorded with the name Yola between 1900 and 1983. Its highest annual count was 32 in 1915; its best national rank was #1,256 in 1915.

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 Yola?

Yola had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1983, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1983
1 in 577,000
6 of 3,463,011 births
Among girls only
1 in 278,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1983
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
400,064 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yola 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 1983 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 400,064 children born in 1983 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yola. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yolas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yola was born before 1924 — so the typical Yola is around 101 today.

Median birth year
1924
About 101 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
40.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
36
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1920s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (238).

Is Yola 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1915 (32)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,256
1915

Spellings of Yola

Yola is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 14.0% against Yola'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 Yola is used

Across 1910–2025, Yola was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 179,003 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 25,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 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. Yola has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yola around the world

Where Yola 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
    1951–2022
    #5,239
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1990–1990
    #691
    in 1990

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Yola 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
#1,256
1915
Peak year
1915
32 that year
First recorded
1900
Last recorded
1983
All-time count
587
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yola

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

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Sibling names for Yola

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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