Iola
Iola is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 265th, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1918368 births
- Best rank
- #265in 1907
- Since 1880
- 9,652people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,652 girls have been named Iola in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 368 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 368 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Iola | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 233 | |
| 1890s | 471 | |
| 1900s | 953 | |
| 1910s | 2,525 | |
| 1920s | 2,546 | |
| 1930s | 1,367 | |
| 1940s | 692 | |
| 1950s | 437 | |
| 1960s | 164 | |
| 1970s | 79 | |
| 1980s | 40 | |
| 2000s | 19 | |
| 2010s | 78 | |
| 2020s | 48 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Iola was the 339th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Iola
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leolapeak 1920
- Rosamondpeak 1916
- Inezpeak 1920
- Ionepeak 1920
- Alvertapeak 1918
- Leonapeak 1918
- Veronapeak 1920
- Estellpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.