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 [ 3 syll. e-no-la, en-ola ] The girl name Enola is pronounced as ahNOWLah KEY. 1: Enola is primarily used in the English language and it is also of English origin. The name is a late 19th-century coinage of disputed origin. It has been suggested that the name could be invented from a reversal of the word 'alone', or else it could be Native American in origin. It has been made known by 'Enola Gay', the B-29 Superfortress bomber which dropped the first atomic bomb in the attack on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. The airplane was named after the pilot Paul Tibbets' mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was in turn named after the heroine of a novel. The name has also appeared in literature, borne by a character also called Enola Gay in Martin Amis' black comic novel London Fields (1989). 2: Enola is of Native American origin. Here, the meaning is magnolia. Enola is an uncommon baby girl name. At the height of its usage in 1904, 0.007% of baby girls were named Enola. It was #757 in rank then. The baby name has seen a fall in frequency since then, and is currently used on a very modest scale. Within all girl names in its family, Enola was nevertheless the most widely used in 2008. Baby names that sound like Enola include the Urdu Amala, the English Amalee, the English Amali, the German, Scandinavian, Czech, English, Hungarian, and Italian Amalia, the German, Scandinavian, English, French, and Czech Amalie, the English Amalya, the Hungarian, Portuguese, and Slavic Amália, the Czech Amálie, the Dutch, English, German, Italian, and Spanish Amelia, the German and French Amelie, the English Amella, the English Amely, the French Amélie, the German Amilie, the Indian Amoli, the Indian Amulya, the Indian Anala, the Portuguese Analia, the Hawaiian Anela, and the Indian Anila. KEY: Pronunciation for Enola: AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; OW as in "oat (OW.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"   |
