Entry № 10654 · Other origin

Tola Tola — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ TOH-lah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Wealth / one who is worthy"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Yoruba)

A name that means "wealth / one who is worthy".

Tola is from the Yoruba Tóla — t- (worthy of) + olá (honor, wealth, prestige) — worthy of honor.

Worthy of honor (Yoruba).

The name in its native script.

Tóla
Transliteration
Tóla
Pronunciation
/ ˈtoʊ.lə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Tola stands.

Tola 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.

Tolas before her.

Real people
Tola Akinmade Åkerström
Nigerian-Swedish travel writer + National Geographic contributor.
born 1979
In fiction
Tola
Yoruba worthy of honor.

Names connected to Tola.

The number behind Tola.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Tola reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.