Enola
Enola reached its high-water mark in 1953 at number 948, and has been recorded 3,084 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,459th. About 1,300 Enolas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 50.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Enola
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,084
- Estimated living today
- 1,300
- Median age today
- 50
- Peak year
- 1953
- Best rank
- 948th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,459th
- First recorded
- 1885
How old the living Enolas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,084 babies given the name since 1885, about 1,300 are alive — 43 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1975 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Created for the titular character in the 1886 American novel Enola, derived from alone spelled backwards.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Enola is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Enola is most concentrated in Louisiana (46.7×), Texas (0.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1953
The most popular girls’ names the year Enola peaked:
Enola elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Enola +1 spelling | 10,465 | 110th |
| Belgium girls | Enola +1 spelling | 557 | 282nd |
| England and Wales girls | Enola | 350 | 677th |
| Switzerland girls | Enola | 245 | 231st |
| Poland girls | Enola | 12 birth registrations | 422nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Enola: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Enola | 114 | 0.009% | 259th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Enola | 127 | 0.029% | 123rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Enola | 4 | 0.006% | 170th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Enola is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.03% of children were given it – 54 of them.
Enola: rank by region
In 2025, Enola was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Enola | 191 | 14 |
In 2021, Enola was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Enola | 8 | 1 |
In 2021, Enola was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lubelskie | Enola | 151 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Enola appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (133rd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Enola by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 4 | 552nd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Where Enola lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 337 women called Enola were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zamora | Enola | 6 | 0.072 | 835 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Enola | 36 | 0.065 | 1,272 |
| Palmas, Las | Enola | 20 | 0.034 | 2,298 |
| Burgos | Enola | 6 | 0.033 | 1,473 |
| Cádiz | Enola | 17 | 0.027 | 1,311 |
| León | Enola | 6 | 0.026 | 1,645 |
Listed in 20 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 32 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Enola against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.