Zola
Zola is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 221 births. Its best rank was 365th, in 1895.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2210.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2018277 births
- Best rank
- #365in 1895
- Since 1880
- 9,117people given the name
The story in the numbers
9,117 girls have been named Zola in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2018, with 277 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1937, and the 2010s alone account for 17%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Zola | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 138 | |
| 1890s | 442 | |
| 1900s | 579 | |
| 1910s | 1,285 | |
| 1920s | 1,493 | |
| 1930s | 812 | |
| 1940s | 514 | |
| 1950s | 348 | |
| 1960s | 149 | |
| 1970s | 100 | |
| 1980s | 51 | |
| 1990s | 90 | |
| 2000s | 360 | |
| 2010s | 1,524 | |
| 2020s | 1,232 |
In 2018, its biggest year
Zola was the 955th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2018 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2018.
Names that rose and fell with Zola
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Vadapeak 2020
- Eleanorapeak 2024
- Tulapeak 2019
- Hazelpeak 1918
- Vidapeak 2022
- Maziepeak 2023
- Nolapeak 2020
- Lolapeak 1919
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.