Ola

Where Ola comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Ola.

  • Vowel-ended
Ola through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #182 among girls, with 67 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1886
    Peak, #140
    186 babies named Ola, its best rank.
  3. 1960
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,266.
  4. 1986
    Ola Toivonen born
    Swedish footballer
  5. 1996
    Ola Aina born
    Nigerian footballer
In the dictionary
  • A female given name used in the U.S. in the end of the nineteenth century.
Namesakes
  • Ola Toivonen · Swedish footballer, born 1986
  • Ola Aina · Nigerian footballer, born 1996
  • Ola Ullsten · Swedish politician, prime minister of Sweden between October 1978 and October 1979, 1931–2018
  • Ola Vigen Hattestad · Norwegian cross-country skier, born 1982
  • Ola John · Dutch association football player, born 1992

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.