Nola
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nola is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Tanzania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Acronym of New Orleans, Louisiana.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 9.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 27K
- TZTanzania≈1 in 3.5Kas Noela
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nola itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Tanzania (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 350 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 named Noela, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Noela in KE Kenya, TZ Tanzania, AL Albania.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Acronym of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nola counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZ Tanzania | #532 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Noela | 19 |
| US United States | — | 12,273 | 1 in 27K | 12K | Nola | 350 |
| AU Australia | #800 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | 3 | Nola | 131 |
| KE Kenya | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Noela | 17 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Nola | 16 |
| DK Denmark | — | 331 | 1 in 18K | 331 | Nola | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | #757 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 17K | 11 | Nola | 43 |
| AL Albania | — | 215as Noela | 1 in 14K | 215 | Noela | 10 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nola is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Nola, Italia; Pisa, Roma, Livorno, Algeria
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In Italian, oriundo da cidade meridional de Nola, de nome osco Nuvla, a nova cidade.
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Latin, Latin: 'olive'
as a nameAfrican Names
olive.
as a nameAfrican Names
Irish and Australian: probably a name created as a feminine form of NOLAN . It may also represent a short form of Gaelic Fionn(gh)uala ; see FENELLA and FINOLA .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nola Ochsb. 1911USAmerican centenarian
- Nola Chiltonb. 1922ILan American-born Israeli theater director and acting teacher.
- Fionnuala Kennyb. 1956IEnot in their usual nameIrish public relations specialist (born 1956)
- Fionnuala Sherryb. 1962IEnot in their usual nameIrish musician
- Fionnuala Sweeneyb. 1965GBnot in their usual nameNorthern Irish television journalist
- Fionnuala Ní Aoláinb. 1967IEnot in their usual nameIrish legal academic
- Fionnuala McCormackb. 1984IEnot in their usual nameIrish long distance and steeplechase runner
- R'Bonney Gabrielb. 1994USnot in their usual nameAmerican beauty pageant titleholder (born 1994)
- Fionnuala MurphyGBnot in their usual nameBritish actress
- Nola Augustsonactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 93 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,167 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 331 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 331 | #736 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 91 | #2,167 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 15 | #8,567 |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 1958 | 11 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1926 | 9 | — |
Reference works 5
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Nola mean, and where does it come from?
- Acronym of New Orleans, Louisiana. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Nola a male or female name?
- Nola is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Nola?
- In the etymology graph, Nolene is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Nola have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Noela in Tanzania, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 12,273 people named Nola in 2020, about 1 in 27 thousand residents.
- How common is Nola compared with other names?
- In Tanzania, Nola is the 532nd most common given name of 37,285 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nola?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nolaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nola” — the 532nd most common given name in Tanzania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.