Girl
Ola
As a girl's name, Ola is understood to mean "Ancestor's descendant or holy". It had its heyday in the 1920s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Few names stick around this long: it shows up across almost the entire twelve-decade span this registry covers.
EtymologyShort for Olaf/Olga
Etymology"Ancestor's descendant" or "holy"
Births by decade
1900s
3,452
1910s
5,910
1920s
6,647
1930s
4,262
1940s
2,877
1950s
1,544
1960s
508
1970s
259
1980s
206
1990s
131
2000s
117
2010s
100
Peaked in the 1920s · 26,013 total U.S. births since 1900