Lola

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Lola: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Lola: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #23 in 2012, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
103times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#23highest recorded position
22groupings it qualifies for
6names it appears alongside

What stands out in Lola's record

England and Wales registered 2,010 births with the name in 2012, its largest count from any one registrar. Names by yearly birth count
Held at least one birth in every 2,000 for 20 years. Names by sustained share

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#620
1997	#460
1998	#369
1999	#383
2000	#353
2001	#251
2002	#238
2003	#181
2004	#159
2005	#90
2006	#51
2007	#46
2008	#47
2009	#42
2010	#33
2011	#31
2012	#23
2013	#32
2014	#35
2015	#40
2016	#42
2017	#43
2018	#52
2019	#60
2020	#65
2021	#64
2022	#78
2023	#79
2024	#87

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2025: #72 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, #124 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #620 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #23 among girls in England and Wales, in 2012 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #72 among girls in New South Wales, Australia, in 2025.
New South Wales, Australia · Girls

Lola appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 24,518 births with the name.

Lola across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Lola's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#620 (1996)	#23 (2012)	#87 (2024)	29 of 29	24,518 (1996–2024)	2,010 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#425 (1998)	#105 (2016)	#124 (2025)	27 of 28	818 (1998–2025)	57 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#372 (2004)	#67 (2013)	#253 (2024)	21 of 21	414 (2004–2024)	36 (2016)
New South Wales, Australia · Girls	#95 (2010)	#56 (2021)	#72 (2025)	16 of 16	1,573 (2010–2025)	133 (2021)
New Zealand · Girls	#90 (2009)	#74 (2016)	#85 (2022)	9 of 14	435 (2009–2022)	57 (2016)

Lola by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Lola in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	273	4 of 10	68
2000s	6,723	10 of 10	672
2010sbusiest	14,158	10 of 10	1,416
2020s	3,364	5 of 10	673

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 1,416 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2005 and 2006, when recorded births rose by 488, from 613 to 1,101.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Lola appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #23 in England and Wales in 2012.

Lola's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#87	543	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#79	595	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#78	641	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#64	807	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#65	778	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#60	899	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#52	982	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#43	1,201	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#42	1,298	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#40	1,322	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#35	1,441	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#32	1,574	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#23	2,010	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#31	1,777	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#33	1,654	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#42	1,463	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#47	1,276	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#46	1,246	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#51	1,101	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#90	613	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#159	337	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#181	265	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#238	169	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#251	158	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#353	95	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#383	84	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#369	87	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#460	63	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#620	39	High	Verified
2025	New South Wales, Australia	female	#72	100	Insufficient	Not yet available
2024	New South Wales, Australia	female	#62	107	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	female	#65	102	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New South Wales, Australia	female	#59	126	Insufficient	Not yet available
2021	New South Wales, Australia	female	#56	133	Insufficient	Not yet available
2020	New South Wales, Australia	female	#60	114	Insufficient	Not yet available
2019	New South Wales, Australia	female	#87	84	Insufficient	Not yet available
2018	New South Wales, Australia	female	#80	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
2017	New South Wales, Australia	female	#77	92	Insufficient	Not yet available
2016	New South Wales, Australia	female	#85	85	Insufficient	Not yet available
2015	New South Wales, Australia	female	#86	86	Insufficient	Not yet available
2014	New South Wales, Australia	female	#66	107	Insufficient	Not yet available
2013	New South Wales, Australia	female	#65	106	Insufficient	Not yet available
2012	New South Wales, Australia	female	#87	84	Insufficient	Not yet available
2011	New South Wales, Australia	female	#87	82	Insufficient	Not yet available
2010	New South Wales, Australia	female	#95	78	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New Zealand	female	#85	48	High	Verified
2019	New Zealand	female	#88	44	High	Verified
2017	New Zealand	female	#92	43	High	Verified
2016	New Zealand	female	#74	57	High	Verified
2015	New Zealand	female	#100	45	High	Verified
2013	New Zealand	female	#79	51	High	Verified
2012	New Zealand	female	#86	52	High	Verified
2010	New Zealand	female	#86	49	High	Verified
2009	New Zealand	female	#90	46	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#253	6	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#115	18	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#140	15	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#123	19	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#140	14	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#167	12	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#86	28	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#110	21	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#71	36	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#92	27	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#69	34	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#67	35	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#73	35	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#118	21	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#86	30	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#116	20	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#138	16	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#147	14	High	Verified
2006	Northern Ireland	female	#238	7	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#377	3	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#124	38	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#110	43	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#135	35	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#157	33	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#121	44	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#132	38	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#123	45	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#138	40	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#125	47	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#105	56	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#109	57	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#115	52	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#172	33	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#134	44	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#189	31	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#153	40	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#168	36	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#291	17	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#233	21	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#203	22	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	female	#300	12	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#340	9	High	Verified
2003	Republic of Ireland	female	#403	7	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	female	#512	4	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	female	#400	6	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#439	4	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#425	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#94	46	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #23, first reached in 2012.

It held a top-100 place in 21 years, 21 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 2,010 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Loke · #126, 30y
Loki · #425, 24y
Lola-Grace · #1497, 17y
Lola-Mae · #738, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Bailey · #23, 30y
Ezra · #23, 30y
Summer · #23, 30y
Layla · #24, 35y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Bailey · #23, 30y
Ezra · #23, 30y
Jonah · #23, 31y
Summer · #23, 30y

Comparisons involving Lola

Existing comparison pages where Lola and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Lola in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Olive vs Lola
Olive and Lola averaged 9.5 places apart in New South Wales, Australia · Girls, and 497 places apart in England and Wales · Girls.
Olive · Lola · 30 shared years, 1996–2025 · Close in one country, far apart in another

Lola was ranked #23 in England and Wales · Girls in 2012. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Lola and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Lola without appearing here.

Lola moved ahead of

Brittany Compare
In 2000 they stood at #353 and #275 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2001 that had become #251 and #871.
Ingrid Compare
In 2010 they stood at #512 and #512 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2011 that had become #189 and #798.
Linda Compare
In 2005 they stood at #340 and #317 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2006 that had become #203 and #764.
Denise Compare
In 2003 they stood at #403 and #333 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2004 that had become #340 and #677.

Moved ahead of Lola

Sadie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #134 and #139 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #172 and #77.
Nora Compare
In 2018 they stood at #86 and #151 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2019 that had become #167 and #98.
Éala Compare
In 2021 they stood at #121 and #177 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2022 that had become #157 and #91.
Evie Compare
In 2002 they stood at #400 and #441 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2003 that had become #403 and #362.

Moved the opposite way to Lola

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lola went from #620 to #87 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lola went from #620 to #87 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lola went from #620 to #87 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lola went from #620 to #87 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Lola

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lola went from #620 to #87 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lola went from #620 to #87 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lola went from #620 to #87 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Lola went from #620 to #87 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #23 in England and Wales in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Lola

Lola at a glance

What stands out in Lola's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Lola across 5 official records

Lola by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lola appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Comparisons involving Lola

Longest shared records

Names published alongside Lola

Lola and the names beside it

Lola moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lola

Moved the opposite way to Lola

Moved the same way as Lola

Lola at a glance

What stands out in Lola's record

Lola across 5 official records

Lola by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Lola appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Comparisons involving Lola

Longest shared records

Names published alongside Lola

Lola and the names beside it

Lola moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Lola

Moved the opposite way to Lola

Moved the same way as Lola