Given name
Finola
“one who is fair; a whiteshouldered woman”
Finola is a variant of Fiona. One interpretation is “one who is fair; a whiteshouldered woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Finola is a variant of Fiona. One interpretation is “one who is fair; a whiteshouldered woman.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Finola is a variant of Fiona. An origin associated with Fiona is Irish.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1966. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Finola is a variant of Fiona. The history of Fiona gives this family its wider story. James Macpherson is credited with first using Fiona. The writer William Sharp later adopted Fiona Macleod as a pen name, adding another literary chapter to its history.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Finola through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 178
- 0 boys · 178 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 20 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 20 in 2007. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 271 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Finola’s family of names
Finola has a feminine form in Nola. Finola has a related form in Fiona. Finola is an English adaptation of Fionnuala.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 4
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Finola
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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