Within all girl names in its family, Enola was nevertheless the most widely used in 2018.Ī baby name that sounds like Enola is the name Imala. The baby name has seen a fall in frequency since then, and is currently used on a very modest scale. At the height of its usage in 1904, 0.007% of baby girls were named Enola. See also the related categories, english, word (element), mother, heroine (conqueror), fields (meadow), paul, literature, invented, and american.Įnola is an uncommon baby girl name. Variant forms inherit the origin and meaning of the name Enola.Ģ: Enola is of Native American origin. The plane was named after Frederick Bock, the planes commander. Adaptations included removing most of the armament installing heavier racks to support the heavy bomb and replacing the engines. The name has also appeared in literature, borne by a character also called Enola Gay in Martin Amis' black comic novel London Fields (1989). Colonel Paul Tibbets, the planes pilot, named her after his mother Enola Gay Tibbets (who in turn was named after the heroine of a novel). Just as its counterpart the Enola Gay, the Bockscar had been altered to serve the purpose of carrying and deploying the heavy bomb. Tibbets flew her to Kwajalein Island in the Marshalls but then found himself and his. The airplane was named after the pilot Paul Tibbets' mother, Enola Gay Tibbets, who was in turn named after the heroine of a novel. After undergoing modifications, the Enola Gay was ready to join the tests. 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. 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. The name is a late 19th-century coinage of disputed origin. Yes, it sounds like Ebola, yes backwards it is Alone, and yes it is the name of a plane called the Enola Gay. The story goes his grandfather was reading the book just before his mother was born and thus her name. The baby girl name Enola is pronounced as iy-N OWLuw- †.ġ: Enola is primarily used in the English language and it is also of English origin. Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, named his plane after his mother.