How rare is the name Lola?

41,482 people in the United States have the first name Lola, about 1 in 7,281. It ranks #1,022 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

LOLA

#1,022

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
41,482
About
1 in 7,281
This common or more
70.3%
Who bears it

Of the 41,482 people named Lola, 63.3% reported their origin as White, 15.2% as Hispanic or Latino and 13.7% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Lola peaked in 1919, when 1,623 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1919
Births that year
1,623
In 2025*
1,132 ▼30%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 97,167 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.

Lola by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1900s, when it ranked #151. The largest share of babies named Lola, 30.2%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#2092,054
1890s#1604,232
1900s#1515,964
1910s#23411,814
1920s#28314,746
1930s#33010,456
1940s#4747,663
1950s#6855,542
1960s#1,0192,864
1970s#1,4921,591
1980s#2,393853
1990s#4,112528
2000s#7677,817
2010s#50213,900
2020s#5587,143
Before 19017.1%
Greatest Generation 1901–2730.2%
Silent Generation 1928–4518.5%
Baby boom 1946–6410.3%
Generation X 1965–802.9%
Millennials 1981–961.1%
Generation Z 1997–1212.5%
2013 and later17.4%

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 Lola is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Lola has been most common in Arkansas (2.7×), Oklahoma (2.4×), and Idaho (2.2×), and least common in Maine (0.15×).

80,982 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 Lola

#1,020 Alina · 41,648#1,021 Eliza · 41,537#1,023 Bennett · 41,302#1,024 Rudy · 41,251

Spelled almost the same

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

#22,241 Lolo · 449#32,104 Loula · 264#42,229 Loly · 171#46,195 Loli · 145

Also a last name

As a last name, Lola ranks #69,002 of 156,621, with 307 people. See Lola as a last name

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