How popular is the baby name Nola in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Nola.
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On January 17, 1969, on the campus of UCLA, a dispute broke out during a meeting of the African Student Union. The dispute turned violent and, ultimately, two members of the Black Panther Party — Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter, 26, and John Huggins, 23 — were shot and killed by a member of a rival group, the black nationalist US Organization.
The next year, the rare name Alprentice appeared for the first time in the U.S. baby name data. It stayed there for a total of three years:
1973: unlisted
1972: 5 baby boys named Alprentice
1971: 5 baby boys named Alprentice
1970: 7 baby boys named Alprentice [debut]
1969: unlisted
Both Carter and Huggins “had been accepted for UCLA’s “high potential” program for minority students who do not otherwise qualify academically for admission.”
In 2010, a plaque in memory of the men (“slain in the ongoing struggle for student empowerment and social justice”) was hung outside the classroom in which they were killed.
I’m not sure where Alprentice’s first name came from, but his nickname, “Bunchy,” was bestowed by one of his grandmother’s friends when he was a baby. Here’s how his mother, Nola Mae Carter, told the story:
“He was real plump when he was a baby, and she came and she started […] calling him Bunchy. And that’s how he got Bunchy” — like a bunch of greens.
According to France’s National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE), the most popular baby names in the country last year were (again) Emma and Gabriel.
Here are France’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2019:
Girl Names
Emma, 3,944 baby girls
Jade, 3,820
Louise, 3,752
Alice, 3,294
Lina, 2,948
Chloé, 2,862
Rose, 2,704
Léa, 2,689
Mila, 2,681
Ambre, 2,654
Boy Names
Gabriel, 4,987 baby boys
Léo, 4,653
Raphaël, 4,454
Arthur, 4,005
Louis, 3,947
Lucas, 3,737
Adam, 3,668
Jules, 3,542
Hugo, 3,493
Maël, 3,383
In the girls’ top 10, Ambre replaced Anna.
The boys’ top 10 includes the same 10 names, but in a different order.
Finally, names that saw notable increases in usage from 2018 to 2019 include:
Girl names: Joy, Arya, Octavia, Nola, Liyah, Chelsea
A few weeks ago, I got an email from a reader looking for lists of old-fashioned double names. She was aiming for names like Thelma Dean, Eula Mae, and Gaynell — names that would have sounded trendy in the early 1900s. She also mentioned that she’d started a list of her own.
So I began scouring the interwebs. I tracked down lists of old-fashioned names, and lists of double names…but I couldn’t find a decent list of double names that were also old-fashioned.
I loved the idea of such a list, though, so I suggested that we work together to create one. She generously sent me the pairings she’d collected so far, and I used several different records databases to find many more.
I restricted my search to names given to girls born in the U.S. from 1890 to 1930. I also stuck to double names that I found written as single names, because it’s very likely that these pairings were used together in real life (i.e., that they were true double names and not merely first-middle pairings).
Pairings that seemed too timeless, like Maria Mae and Julia Rose, were omitted. I also took out many of the pairings that feature now-trendy names — think Ella, Emma, and Lucy — because they just don’t sound old-fashioned anymore (though they would have a few decades ago).
The result isn’t exhaustive, but it’s a decent sampling of real-life, old-fashioned double names. I’ve organized them by second name, and I also added links to popularity graphs for names that were in the SSA data during the correct time period (early 1900s).
I spotted plenty of other combinations that just didn’t happen to be written as single names in the records, so here’s a handy dandy little table to cover some of the other existing combinations…
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