Ola

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Ola: Recorded every year since 1945, its highest recorded position is #48, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
112times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#48highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Ola's record

Ranked every year since 1945, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record
Held a top-100 place for 40 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#3174
1999	#2444
2000	#3912
2002	#3409
2003	#2727
2005	#2438
2006	#2320
2007	#2627
2008	#2150
2009	#1467
2010	#1993
2011	#1608
2012	#2095
2013	#1774
2014	#1702
2015	#1279
2016	#1834
2017	#1911
2018	#1977
2019	#2458
2020	#1773
2021	#1866
2022	#1501
2023	#1640
2024	#1743

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 boys in Norway in every year from 1945 to 2025.

In 2020: #700 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1773 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #53 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #48 among boys in Norway, in 1946 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #62 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Ola appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 81 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 9,420 births with the name.

Ola 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.

Ola'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
Norway · Boys	#53 (1945)	#48 (1946)	#62 (2025)	81 of 81	9,420 (1945–2025)	183 (1946)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#1279 (2015)	#1743 (2024)	26 of 29	325 (1996–2024)	26 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#842 (2007)	#700 (2020)	#700 (2020)	5 of 14	17 (2007–2020)	4 (2016)

Ola by decade in Norway · Boys

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 Ola in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940sbusiest	757	5 of 10	151
1950s	1,348	10 of 10	135
1960s	1,175	10 of 10	118
1970s	856	10 of 10	86
1980s	866	10 of 10	87
1990s	1,400	10 of 10	140
2000s	1,195	10 of 10	120
2010s	1,222	10 of 10	122
2020s	601	6 of 10	100

Across Norway · Boys, the 1940s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 151 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births fell by 51, from 126 to 75.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ola 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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #48 in Norway in 1997.

Ola'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	#1743	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1640	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1501	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1866	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1773	16	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2458	10	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1911	15	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1834	16	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1279	26	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1702	17	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1774	16	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2095	13	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1608	18	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1993	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1467	19	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2150	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2320	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#2444	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#62	113	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#58	120	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#68	104	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#68	96	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#69	93	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#81	75	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#56	126	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#68	113	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#71	107	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#58	138	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#81	109	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#73	116	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#76	112	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#64	133	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#59	144	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#74	124	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#76	122	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#71	129	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#82	107	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#80	110	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#61	128	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#63	133	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#69	110	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#74	100	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#54	137	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#63	119	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#61	129	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#54	139	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#48	168	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#57	138	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#54	145	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#59	138	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#51	160	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#56	147	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#66	127	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#75	109	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#84	90	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#92	91	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#82	91	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#75	100	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#123	67	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#87	89	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#109	79	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#106	78	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#104	76	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#76	105	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#102	80	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#104	76	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#93	83	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#107	71	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#105	83	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#111	79	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#99	86	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#91	100	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#87	103	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#86	95	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#78	119	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#90	91	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#77	113	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#69	130	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#80	104	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#67	131	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#69	112	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#58	140	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#74	111	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#63	124	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#66	126	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#53	148	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#59	133	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#62	133	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#61	137	High	Verified
1954	Norway	male	#61	130	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#67	127	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#56	157	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#64	125	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#63	132	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#57	136	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#60	131	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#52	168	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#48	183	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#53	139	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#700	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 81 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #48, first reached in 1946.

It held a top-100 place in 72 years, 40 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 183 births, registered in Norway in 1946.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 62 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.

Okan · #1765, 19y
Oksana · #271, 29y
Olaf · #85, 79y
Olai · #89, 32y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Monika · #50, 80y
Edvin · #45, 81y
Ragnar · #42, 81y
Jonny · #55, 79y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Aase · #47, 58y
Atle · #49, 81y
Beate · #47, 70y
Johanne · #47, 81y

Ola was ranked #48 in Norway · Boys in 1946. 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.

Ola 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 Ola without appearing here.

Ola moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1773 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2458 and #5591.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2458 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1773 and #4535.
Siobhán Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1911 and #1817 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1977 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Ola

Frida Compare
In 2009 they stood at #1467 and #1526 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1993 and #1218.
Meabh Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1773 and #3447 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1866 and #1286.
Fiadh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #1911 and #2502 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1977 and #1436.
Harper Compare
In 2005 they stood at #2438 and #2682 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2320 and #2137.

Moved the opposite way to Ola

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ola went from #3795 to #1743 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ola went from #3795 to #1743 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ola went from #3795 to #1743 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Ola went from #3795 to #1743 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Ola

Stein Compare
Between 1945 and 2015 in Norway · Boys, Ola went from #53 to #81 and Stein from #42 to #503.
Roger Compare
Between 1945 and 2013 in Norway · Boys, Ola went from #53 to #76 and Roger from #86 to #514.
Lucas Compare
Between 1976 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ola went from #107 to #62 and Lucas from #607 to #24.
Liam Compare
Between 1982 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ola went from #106 to #62 and Liam from #586 to #7.

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 3 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #48 in Norway in 1997. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ola

Ola at a glance

What stands out in Ola's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ola across 3 official records

Ola by decade in Norway · Boys

Ola appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Ola and the names beside it

Ola moved ahead of

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Ola at a glance

What stands out in Ola's record

Ola across 3 official records

Ola by decade in Norway · Boys

Ola appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Ola

Ola and the names beside it

Ola moved ahead of

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