Holding steady.
Popularity of Genola since 1905
Babies named Genola per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 1919, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Genola's real moment was 1905.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Girls |
|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 |
| 1910s | 51 |
| 1920s | 86 |
| 1930s | 79 |
| 1940s | 30 |
| 1950s | 15 |
| 1960s | 0 |
| 1970s | 0 |
| 1980s | 0 |
| 1990s | 0 |
| 2000s | 0 |
| 2010s | 0 |
| 2020s | 0 |
Meaning & origin
Genola is a rare and obscure name that first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1905, the same year it reached its peak usage. The name has never been widely adopted, and its trajectory has been stable at near-zero usage since then. Its 1-in-N incidence figure is unavailable because so few individuals share the name. The name's style reflects a turn-of-the-century trend for invented names ending in -ola, perhaps influenced by names like Leola or Theola. Top states for the name are not recorded, indicating it was never concentrated regionally. Genola remains a curiosity for those interested in vanishingly rare early 20th-century coinages.
Genola likely originated as a creative elaboration of names like Geno or Geneva, using the fashionable -ola suffix common in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (e.g., Leola, Theola). It has no known ancient roots and appears to have been a brief coinage, recorded in the United States primarily in the early 1900s.
Nicknames & variants
Nicknames: Gen, Ola
Variants: Genolia, Jinola
Sibling names for Genola
Names that share Genola's style, for a brother or sister.
