Nola

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Nola: Recorded since 1996, it reached #206 in 2021, and it stood at #226 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
38times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#206highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3126
1997	#3824
2001	#2466
2002	#4137
2003	#3594
2004	#2278
2005	#2682
2006	#1585
2007	#1965
2008	#1584
2009	#1287
2010	#1815
2011	#1196
2012	#1297
2013	#1291
2014	#877
2015	#583
2016	#573
2017	#541
2018	#365
2019	#310
2020	#252
2021	#206
2022	#214
2023	#213
2024	#226

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 26 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #226 among girls in England and Wales, #230 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #3126 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: #206 among girls in England and Wales, in 2021 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #226 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nola appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 26 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,839 births with the name.

Nola across 3 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.

Nola'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	#3126 (1996)	#206 (2021)	#226 (2024)	26 of 29	1,839 (1996–2024)	249 (2021)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#426 (2015)	#302 (2023)	#302 (2023)	5 of 9	20 (2015–2023)	5 (2016)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#873 (2017)	#464 (2021)	#502 (2022)	6 of 6	28 (2017–2022)	8 (2021)

Nola 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 Nola in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	95	9 of 10	11
2010s	640	10 of 10	64
2020sbusiest	1,097	5 of 10	219

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 219 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 63, from 186 to 249.

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

Nola 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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #206 in England and Wales in 2021.

Nola'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	#226	210	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#213	225	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#214	227	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#206	249	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#252	186	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#310	154	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#365	124	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#541	80	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#573	73	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#583	73	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#877	43	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1291	26	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1297	25	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1196	27	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1815	15	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1287	23	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1584	17	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1965	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1585	15	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2682	7	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2278	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#3594	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2466	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3126	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#350	4	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#306	5	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#502	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#464	8	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#230	16	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
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 4 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #206, first reached in 2021.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 249 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, 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.

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Nolan · #290, 27y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 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.

Sydney · #206, 30y
Zayan · #208, 27y
Kaden · #203, 29y
Nia · #209, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Brenna · #206, 20y
Jordyn · #206, 22y
Keela · #206, 27y
Sydney · #206, 30y

Nola was ranked #206 in England and Wales · Girls in 2021. 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.

Nola 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 Nola without appearing here.

Nola moved ahead of

Maren Compare
In 2005 they stood at #4137 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1585 and #5061.
Debra Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3594 and #3099 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1585 and #4157.
Jayden Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1815 and #1731 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1196 and #3549.
Gail Compare
In 2003 they stood at #4137 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #2278 and #4598.

Moved ahead of Nola

Harper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1585 and #2137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2007 that had become #1965 and #1573.

Moved the opposite way to Nola

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nola went from #3126 to #226 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nola went from #3126 to #226 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nola went from #3126 to #226 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nola went from #3126 to #226 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Nola

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nola went from #3126 to #226 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nola went from #3126 to #226 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nola went from #3126 to #226 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Nola went from #3126 to #226 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

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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 4 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #206 in England and Wales in 2021. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

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Nola across 3 official records

Nola by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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