Ola is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Ola in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ola in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Ola by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Ola ranks at #7,592. That means there are 7,591 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 19,638 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Ola. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their daughter Ola annualy. This means that there have been girls named Ola who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus women named Ola have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Ola even more than any other time: in 1890, it holds its present record of rank #140 in the list of the most popular girls' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ola was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Ola has never been ranked higher than #140. In 2022, she rivaled the 7,417 names that preceded her on the list. In total, 12 girls named Ola were born in that year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Ola were born, there have been 14 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.0% of all common girls' names in the US begin with an O. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With only three letters, the name Ola is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three 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.
Therefore: As 1.0% of all girls' names begin with an O, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. However, individual girls' names with O are really popular, the most common currently being Olivia.
If your name is Ola 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 Ola, you can simply say:
Orange
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ola
Ola
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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.
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. Ola sounds like this:
