Iola
2025 SSA
About Iola
Isla is hot, Iona is cool – maybe it's time Iola got a second look? Last heard from on Carol Burnett's Mama's Family show, Iola feels like just the sort of uncommon, vowel-rich, vintage name that should be ripe for rediscovery.
Pronounced eye-OH-luh.
As of October 2026, Iola ranked #12412 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #265 in 1907.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2017 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | — | 0 | 0 |
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Iola on lists
Iola in pop culture
- Iola Morton
character from the Hardy Boys book series
- Iola Leroy (1892)
one of the first novels by an African,American woman – Frances Harper
- Iola \YO
lah\ is used in Wales as a feminine form of Iolo (a pet form of Iorwerth)
- Iola Stover
character in the musical Parade by Jason Robert Brown
- Iola Black
character in the Harry Potter series
- Iola Boylan
character on the sitcom Mama's Family
- Iola
a temple priestess in Andrzej Sapkowski Witcher novels