Enola is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Enola is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Enola. In the SmartGenius ranking, Enola is #4,776 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Enola.
Enola is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1995, where the name Enola was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Enola and were born in the USA in 1995, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Enola even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1893, it ranked on position 579 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Enola was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Enola has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 57 times and thus landed on position 2,606 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 57 girls with the name Enola, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter E is neither particularly common nor particularly rare as a first letter for girls' names: 3.9% of all common girls' names in the US begin with this letter. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Enola is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 3.9%, E as the first letter in girls' names is almost as common as all 26 letters on average - and of all the girls' names that start with an E, Elizabeth is the most common.
If your name is Enola and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Enola, you can simply say:
Elephant
Nut
Orange
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Enola
Enola
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
E
N
O
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
E
N
O
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Enola sounds like this:
