WDYT of Nola?

fineskyline · July 2010

I read this name recently - in an article or story in some magazine - and though it's not a name I would have thought I'd like, I can't get it out of my head!

Not sure why, but I find it completely charming and very pretty. What do you all think? Is the New Orleans connection too much?

Ella85 · July 2010

It kind of reminds me of Lion Kings Nala lol. But it seems like a sweet name.

jiggybug · July 2010

Never would have thought of it either, but I love it. It just makes me think feminine version of Nolan, which I like too.

strangebird · July 2010

I don't like it, but then I'm not a fan of Lola or Nora, so, it would figure it wouldn't be my taste.

KentuckyKate · July 2010

I love Nolan and I love Nora, but I'm not really into Nola... although I wouldn't judge anyone for naming their own kid that. I agree, that it is sweet sounding, though.

MCMoo23 · July 2010

KentuckyKate:
I love Nolan and I love Nora, but I'm not really into Nola... although I wouldn't judge anyone for naming their own kid that. I agree, that it is sweet sounding, though.

I agree with this, exactly.

ademc05 · July 2010

MCMoo23:
KentuckyKate:
I love Nolan and I love Nora, but I'm not really into Nola... although I wouldn't judge anyone for naming their own kid that. I agree, that it is sweet sounding, though.
I agree with this, exactly.

To add, I think of this:

The Enola Gay is the B-29 Superfortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb, code-named "Little Boy", to be used in war, by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) in the attack on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, just before the end of World War II. The B-29 was named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Paul Tibbets.

It might be the only reason it's NMS.

lovemytwoboys · July 2010

strangebird:
I don't like it, but then I'm not a fan of Lola or Nora, so, it would figure it wouldn't be my taste.

This exactly!

starlight8323 · July 2010

well... since you asked... New Orleans was the first thing I thought of. I've been there three times, and had lots of fun, it's just not something that I would want to associate with my daughter. But you may really like the city or feel a special connection to it or something, in which case I say go for it.

If you are just asking about the sound of the name, and not the potential associations with it... I still don't like it at all. But I do like Eleanor (nn Nora).

mrsarjiltobe · July 2010

Not my favorite.

welshgirl · July 2010

My first thought was NOLA, which was odd. Then the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima in 1945. Not great.

I'ts pretty, and I agree that it's just a feminized form of Nolan, but too many connottions for me.

ZTAsunshine · July 2010

Ella85:
It kind of reminds me of Lion Kings Nala lol. But it seems like a sweet name.

This is how I read the name at first.

baloneydisc · July 2010

I grew up in the south (FL panhandle) & knew a girl named Nola in middle & high school. I never heard anyone make a New Orleans reference to her, but I know that she hated her name. When we got to high school she tried to get everyone to call her by her middle name, but it didn't work. I don't know why she hated her name, she wouldn't tell anyone.

j_hope · July 2010

It's my sister's middle name (named after our grandma), and I LOVE it! She has a very common 1st name and always wished that Nola was her 1st name. We're from the midwest, and until I came on the nest/bump I had never heard of the New Orleans connection. I only knew it as a beautiful middle name

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jillianfries · July 2010

I don't like it.

drakee · July 2010

Nola was Scarlett Johansson's character's name in Match Point if I remember correctly. It's a nice name, and it's very uncommon. I actually connected it more to Los Angeles than New Orleans for some reason.