Baby name Inola

[Bunsie]

Thoughts on Inola for a baby girl?

I think it's pretty
No connection to Enola Gay?

Is your surname Holmes?

No, no connection. I heard the name a few years back and it was spelt as above with an I and its always been in head since.

I'd think it was a misspelling of enola

I know an Inola. She’s lovely. Beautiful name.

I only think of Enola Gay, the airplane that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Although I recently learned that the pilot named the plane after his mum, so I suppose it is a name. Not that keen, sorry.

Yes quite possibly as I've seen Enola before but never Inola however I think I do prefer the I spelling as it looks a bit softer

Its a no from me, too close to Enola which was the band of the pkane used to drop the bomb on hiroshima

I immediately think of Enola Gay.

It's a pretty name but I wouldn't use it.

Wow I'd never heard of enola gay until this thread. X

Gay.
Sorry.

My first thought was also Enola Gay.

Having googled it it seems to be a Cherokee name? I wouldn't use it unless you or your partner have Native American heritage.

I'd have said Enola Gay - but that's showing my age !
Though you have got me singing the song

Never heard it before but I quite like it.

Prefer ‘Ilona’ which is very similar and means “queen of the fairies” or “a joy to someone.”

Inola is apparently a town in Oklahoma!

Ilona is really pretty, or Iona?

How do you pronounce it?
INN-ola or In-OH-la, or come to that, In-oh-LA?

Never seen it with an 'I' but, like so many others, my first thought was Enola Gay, which isn't really something I'd want to name my dd after.

As has already been said, it was originally the name of (I believe?) the person who named the plane's mother, so it clearly was a name before that, but that is what it is remembered for - in the same way that the name Adolf was a name long before Hitler's rise to notoriety, but most people probably wouldn't choose to use it now because of the association.

Unfortunately it reminds me of the Enola Gay and it does put me off the name. It's an uncomfortable association. I think Nola on its own is very nice though.

I also think of Ebola Gay but (perhaps sadly) I doubt many people in the baby’s generation will know about this and make the association.

LOL, Ebola would be a worse name, probably.

Unless you pronounce it with the stress on the first syllable, INN-ola , I'm afraid it will sound almost indistinguishable from Enola.
In-OLA / En-OLA.

Hiroshima bomber

Singing the song now!

Too similar to Enola (Gay).
If you do use it, May, Grace, Fay or Rae would be a middle name

Just reminds me of Enola which is also Alone spelt backwards.