Given name & surname · also Polish
Tola
Tola is a form of Toinette. In French use, Toinette carries the interpretation “priceless and highly praiseworthy; a flourishing flower.”
Original PolishOtylia
Meaning & origin
What it means
Tola is a form of Toinette. In French use, Toinette carries the interpretation “priceless and highly praiseworthy; a flourishing flower.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Polish.
How it developed
Tola is used as a form of Toinette.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1899. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Tola through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 110
- 6 boys · 104 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 11 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 5 in 2020. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 11 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 420 as a first name in 2020; 651 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Tola’s family of names
In Polish usage, Tola is a diminutive of Anatolia. Tola is a form of Toinette. In Polish usage, Tola is a diminutive of Otylia.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Tola
- Tola MankiewiczównaPolish singer and actress (1900–1985)
- Shura KitataEthiopian marathon runnerborn 1996
- Anatole VologeFrench field hockey player (1909–1944)
- Tola WeweNigerian visual artistborn 1959
- Tola SzlagowskaPolish actressborn 1992
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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