Yola
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Yola is a given name, most frequently recorded in Peru. In Bolivia it is the 77th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Hausa: firefly; city in eastern Nigeria.
- BOBolivia1 in 5.9K◐
- PEPeru1 in 18K
- MXMexico1 in 58K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈703 ●
- Sources
- 95 ●
- 1 in 537K ◐
across 6 countries
23K records
Official registry-verified
Sweden
Meaning & origin●
Hausa: firefly; city in eastern Nigeria.
Sources 1
- African Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PE Peru | — | 12,237 | 11K rec. | — | — | Yola | 34 |
| MX Mexico | — | 5,462 | 5.5K rec. | — | — | Yola | 50 |
| AR Argentina | — | 2,474 | 1.4K rec. | — | 3 | Yola | 29 |
| BO Bolivia | #77 | 1,483 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Yola | 23 |
| CL Chile | — | 639 | 110 rec. | — | 1 | Yola | 22 |
| US United States | — | 513 | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 648K | 513 | Yola | 95 |
| CO Colombia | — | 365 | 308 rec. | — | — | Yola | 21 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 344 | 7 rec. | — | 1 | Yola | 14 |
| VE Venezuela | — | 234 | 212 rec. | — | — | Yola | 10 |
| SY Syria | — | 200 | 230 rec. | — | — | Yola | 7 |
| AO Angola | #639 | 84 | 146 rec. | — | 2 | Yola | 16 |
| BR Brazil | — | 81 | 207 rec. | 1 in 2.6M | 81 | Yola | 32 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Spanish25K52%
- English8.4K18%
- Indonesian5.6K12%
- French1.6K4%
- Portuguese1.4K3%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 24,536 | 52% |
| English | 8,356 | 18% |
| Indonesian | 5,636 | 12% |
| French | 1,649 | 4% |
| Portuguese | 1,376 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Yola is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, yawl; small boat with oars and sail
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, cocaine
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, weibl. Vom., Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Delightful, agreeable.
as a nameThe African book of names
Firefly.
as a nameThe African book of names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1933 | 1 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 3 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1940 | 4 |
| 1941 | 2 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 4 |
| 1944 | 10 |
| 1945 | 2 |
| 1946 | 4 |
| 1947 | 8 |
| 1948 | 8 |
| 1949 | 5 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 10 |
| 1952 | 9 |
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 13 |
| 1957 | 12 |
| 1958 | 18 |
| 1959 | 14 |
| 1960 | 16 |
| 1961 | 12 |
| 1962 | 16 |
| 1963 | 12 |
| 1964 | 13 |
| 1965 | 19 |
| 1966 | 14 |
| 1967 | 15 |
| 1968 | 12 |
| 1969 | 15 |
| 1970 | 10 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 11 |
| 1973 | 7 |
| 1974 | 15 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 5 |
| 1977 | 5 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 6 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 4 |
| 1982 | 5 |
| 1983 | 4 |
| 1984 | 3 |
| 1985 | 2 |
| 1986 | 6 |
| 1987 | 1 |
| 1990 | 1 |
| 1993 | 1 |
| 1995 | 2 |
| 1998 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 |
EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 69 years between 1930–2022. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yola Letellierb. 1904FRFrench socialite
- Yola DaCostab. 1929JMbadminton player
- Yola Czaderska-Hayekb. 1952PLPolish journalist
- Yola Cainb. 1954JMJamaican aviator
- Yola Berrocalb. 1970ESSpanish media personality
- Yola Semedob. 1978AOrenowned Angolan singer
- Yola Araújob. 1978AOAngolan singer
- Yola Mamanib. 1984BOBolivian activist
- Yola Mgogwanab. 2008ZASouth African climate activist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 42 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 513 | #20,056 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 448 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 81 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 77 | #47,863 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 59 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 58 | #31,870 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 46 | #29,842 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 39 | #15,510 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1980 | 36 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 32 | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 30 | #11,511 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 29 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 348 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Yola?
- We estimate roughly 703 people bear Yola (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Yola have the most bearers?
- Yola is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled yola.
- How common is Yola compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Yola is the 77th most common given name of 14,901 given names recorded there.
- Is Yola a male or female name?
- Yola is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Yola mean?
- Recorded meaning: Hausa: firefly; city in eastern Nigeria.
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yola” — the 77th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.