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Jolanda

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jolanda has been given to 1,015 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1965, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Jolanda, 2008

1 in 655,000

Jolanda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jolanda: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jolanda means

Jolanda is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jolanda is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Jolanda is pronounced /jolǎːnda/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,015 girls were recorded with the name Jolanda between 1918 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1965; its best national rank was #1,507 in 1965.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jolanda?

Jolanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2008, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2008
1 in 655,000
6 of 3,930,727 births
Among girls only
1 in 315,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2008
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
454,097 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jolanda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2008 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 454,097 children born in 2008 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jolanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jolandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jolanda was born before 1972 — so the typical Jolanda is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
985
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1960s — 33.7% of all recorded uses (342).

Is Jolanda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1965 (55)
Years since peak
60
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,507
1965

Spellings of Jolanda

Jolanda is not the most common spelling — Yolanda is, with 34.8% against Jolanda's 0.31%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jolanda is used

Across 1910–2025, Jolanda was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 584,037 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 in —
  5. 5Oklahoma1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jolanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jolanda around the world

Where Jolanda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–1998
    #3,848
    in 1998
  • South Australia
    1960–1988
    #657
    in 1988

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jolanda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,507
1965
Peak year
1965
55 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
1,015
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jolanda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jolanda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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