How rare is the name Leola?

5,946 people in the United States have the first name Leola, about 1 in 50,796. It ranks #3,487 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LEOLA

#3,487

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,946
About
1 in 50,796
This common or more
82.5%
Who bears it

Of the 5,946 people named Leola, 54.3% reported their origin as Black, 38.1% as White and 3.2% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Leola peaked in 1920, when 855 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1920
Births that year
855
In 2025*
17 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 28,181 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Leola by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #278. The largest share of babies named Leola, 51.3%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#492531
1890s#3751,255
1900s#2782,615
1910s#3766,148
1920s#4467,097
1930s#5724,234
1940s#8402,694
1950s#1,2681,740
1960s#2,112730
1970s#3,556372
1980s#5,906224
1990s#12,571105
2000s#14,787116
2010s#11,306183
2020s#9,452137
Before 19017.2%
Greatest Generation 1901–2751.3%
Silent Generation 1928–4525.5%
Baby boom 1946–6411.2%
Generation X 1965–802.4%
Millennials 1981–961%
Generation Z 1997–120.6%
2013 and later1%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Leola is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Leola has been most common in Louisiana (6.3×), Mississippi (5.5×), and South Carolina (4.8×), and least common in New Jersey (0.09×).

20,179 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Leola

#3,485 Chung · 5,952#3,486 Barton · 5,950#3,488 Vu · 5,944#3,489 Amiya · 5,943

Spelled almost the same

6 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Leola, most common first.

#1,093 Leila · 37,753#2,159 Lela · 12,330#2,595 Leyla · 9,255#4,162 Leela · 4,611#17,205 Leala · 645#32,182 Lella · 263

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