Nola Name Meaning

Gender: Female

Origin: Irish

Meaning: Fair Shoulder

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1. Meaning of the name "Nola"

Nola's name is a Gaelic girl's name, Latin origin meaning "white shoulder". Nola, a name with a sensual, haunting quality, was used for the heroine much sought after in Spike Lee's 1986 breakthrough film, She's Gotta Have It, and again by Woody Allen in Match Point.

It re-entered the Top 1000 in 2008, for the first time in 50 years. Nola is also a place name of an Italian town, associated with ecclesiastical tradition with the invention of church bells, leading some to give that as the meaning of the name.

Speaking of maps, Nola may also come from New Orleans, Louisiana, where Nola is a regular abbreviation. This association lends the name a sense of potential South.

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2. Finola

Finola is an Irish female name, from the Gaelic Fionnuala, derived from the elements “fionn” meaning “white, fair” and “guala” meaning “shoulder”. Fionnuala factors into one of the most memorable of Irish legends known as the “Children of Lír”.

When Aoibh died, Lír and his children were deeply saddened when Aoibh's father, Bodb Derg (elected king of Tuatha Dé Danann, the first race of the Irish god), sent another daughter of the (Aoife) is the replacement wife/mother.

When Aoife came onto the scene as wifey #2, she was insanely jealous of her husband’s love for his children (her stepchildren), so she sent for a sorcerer and ordered their death. Only hiccup?

The sorcerer refused to carry out her diabolical plan; he just couldn’t harm the four innocent and beautiful children. Instead, Fionnuala, Aodh, Fiachra, and Conn were transformed into four beautiful white swans fated to swim various waters for 900 years (300 years in the North Channel, 300 years in the Irish Sea and 300 years in the Atlantic).

After the children’s sentence at sea, they were given sanctuary on a pond at a monastery, although they had to be tied to one another with a silver chain. Spying the lovely swans, the Queen of Leinster demanded that her husband storm the monastery and retrieve them for her possession.

However, once the silver chain was broken, the swans immediately transformed into old people and withered away to their deaths (before being sent to heaven). So goes the legend of the “fair-shouldered” Fionnuala.

The name Fionnuala was quite common in medieval Ireland, although the more modern form of Finola has become pretty rare. Nola is a common nickname.

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3. Top 1 Famous Person Named Nola - Nola Bond

At the British Empire and the Commonwealth Games of 1962, she won a bronze medal in a women's 4 x 110-yard relay competition. Her teammates in the relay are Molly Cowan, Avis McIntosh, and Doreen Porter. At the Olympics, she also competed individually in the 100 and 200-meter content.

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