Fun Facts About the Name Zolah
- 74 babies named Zolah: U.S. records list 74 babies given the name Zolah from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Zolah Mean?
Zolah has no settled meaning or documented derivation. Its form matches the name Zola with a final h, and Zola has two separate sources: an Italian surname taken from a place name in northern Italy, and a Southern African given name used in Zulu and Xhosa, where it is connected with the verb -zola and understood as "be calm" or "peaceful." Those two names are not related to each other, and nothing ties Zolah itself to either one, so the resemblance may be coincidental. The same caution applies to its likeness to the Hebrew Zillah, a name in Genesis commonly translated "shade," and to the Hebrew Zohar, "splendor." No confirmed etymology for Zolah can be given.
How Popular is the Name Zolah?
Zolah has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2019. Its best rank was #9,728 in 2019.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #10,914 | 9 | 0.0006% |
| 2022 | #13,575 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2021 | #17,645 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2019 | #9,728 | 11 | 0.0007% |
| 2018 | #10,535 | 10 | 0.0006% |
| 2017 | #18,427 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2016 | #12,867 | 8 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #16,400 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2014 | #16,498 | 6 | 0.0003% |
| 2013 | #14,575 | 7 | 0.0004% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Zolah Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have aspiration and inspiration, hope and guidance. Since you are intuitive and perceptive and you understand human nature. You have the power to achieve. Diplomacy and discretion make you a good mediator. You are inspired, introspective, and have a good understanding of the human heart. You can have the ability to commercialize your artistic talents successfully. You are often a mystery to others and to yourself. You are always reaching for something higher, without exactly knowing what that "higher" is. You are frank, methodical and believe in law, system and order.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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