Enola

Where Enola comes from

Created for the titular character in the 1886 American novel Enola, derived from alone spelled backwards.
— Wiktionary's entry for Enola
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1885
    First appearance
    #921 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1893
    Peak, #614
    22 babies named Enola — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1896
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,292.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Enola turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.