Iola
given name · Latin script
Meaning: 1 RENE (25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Iola is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 1,797 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020.
- JMJamaica≈1 in 40Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 42K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 55Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 191 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)
1,797 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)1 RENE
Cited for this meaning 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Iola, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iola 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,797 | 1 in 185K | 1.8K | Iola | 191 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 78K | listed | Iola | 70 |
| CA Canada | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 104K | 2 | Iola | 37 |
| PH Philippines | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 560K | — | Iola | 12 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 314K | — | Iola | 8 |
| SG Singapore | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Iola | 5 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Iola | 3 |
| GY Guyana | 18 | 1 in 42K | 18 | — | 4 |
| GD Grenada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 62K | 5 | — | 1 |
1,797 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)Iola is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative singular of iolă
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Iola Williamsb. 1936USAmerican politician, civil rights activist and museum executive (1936-2019)
- Iola Spaffordb. 1940British artist
- Iola Leal Riescob. 1977ESEnvironmental activist
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Iola mean, and where does it come from?
- 1 RENE Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- What are other forms of the name Iola?
- In the etymology graph, Iole is a form of the same name in other languages.
- Is Iola a male or female name?
- Iola is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- Which countries have the most people named Iola?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Iola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iola. After it come United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines and South Africa; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Iola?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,797 people named Iola in 2020, about 1 in 185 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Iola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iolaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Iola” — ranked 8139th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.