Enola is widely cited as "alone" spelled backwards — invented in the late 19th century as an American given name; possibly also from a Native American word (some sources cite Cherokee or Sioux origins). Enola Holmes — the Netflix film franchise (2020, 2022) starring Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock Holmes's younger sister; the first film became one of Netflix's top-streamed movies of 2020 with 76 million household views in the first month, and the sequel was equally popular; based on Nancy Springer's bestselling YA novel series (2006-2010). Enola Gay — the Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945; the plane was named after pilot Paul Tibbets's mother Enola Gay Tibbets — one of the most-recognized aircraft names in human history; now on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Enola Holmes is widely cited as one of the catalysts for the name's recent US naming surge.
Enola does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Enola reduce to 2, The Peacemaker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.