Lola
Lola is ranked 273rd among girls in 2024 (1,155 births). Its best rank was 99th, in 1904.
- Rank in 2024
- #273down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1550.07% of girls
- Peak year
- 19191,617 births
- Best rank
- #99in 1904
- Since 1880
- 95,745people given the name
The story in the numbers
95,745 girls have been named Lola in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 1,617 births — 0.14% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 236 → 273).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 122 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 1 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Lola | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,054 | |
| 1890s | 4,217 | |
| 1900s | 5,949 | |
| 1910s | 11,765 | |
| 1920s | 14,654 | |
| 1930s | 10,391 | |
| 1940s | 7,623 | |
| 1950s | 5,542 | |
| 1960s | 2,864 | |
| 1970s | 1,590 | |
| 1980s | 853 | |
| 1990s | 527 | |
| 2000s | 7,817 | |
| 2010s | 13,898 | |
| 2020s | 6,001 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Lola was the 142nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Lola
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lillianpeak 1920
- Nolapeak 2020
- Vidapeak 2022
- Odeliapeak 2024
- Maziepeak 2023
- Leorapeak 1921
- Agathapeak 1918
- Vadapeak 2020
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.