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Iola

Rooted in Greek, Iola is a girl's name that means "Greek iole". It was at its most popular in the 1920s and is rarely chosen now. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.

GreekGreek "iole"
EtymologyMeaning "violet colored" or "dawn cloud"
Births by decade
1900s
953
1910s
2,525
1920s
2,546
1930s
1,367
1940s
692
1950s
437
1960s
164
1970s
79
1980s
40
1990s
0
2000s
19
2010s
72
Peaked in the 1920s · 8,894 total U.S. births since 1900