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Rolan

#5,566 in 2025Boys' name

Fame-land, through Roland

Rolan has been given to 1,084 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #5,566 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Rolan, 2025

1 in 195,000

Rolan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rolan: meaning, origin, and history

Fame-land, through Roland

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rolan means

Rolan belongs to the name family reached through Rolan → Roland. Its meaning is “fame-land”.

Origin, language, and formation

Rolan is used in Cebuano.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roland.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,084 boys were recorded with the name Rolan between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 33 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,928 in 1923.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,243 in 2020 to #5,566 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,855 in 2015 to #5,566 in 2025.

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 Rolan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,566
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rolan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rolan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rolans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rolan was born before 1987 — so the typical Rolan is around 38 today.

Median birth year
1987
About 38 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
774
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Choose a decade

2010s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (199).

Is Rolan 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
−896
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,323
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−711
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
51.5%
Peak was 2021 (33)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,928
1923

Spellings of Rolan

Rolan is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 29.8% against Rolan's 0.03%.

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 Rolan is used

Across 1910–2025, Rolan was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 503,465 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Rolan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rolan around the world

Where Rolan 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
    2006–2024
    #4,271
    in 2024
  • France
    2008–2008
    #5,618
    in 2008
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1963–1963
    #563
    in 1963

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Rolan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,566
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,323
Best rank ever
#1,928
1923
Peak year
2021
33 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,084
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Rolan

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

RollanRolloRollyCalanOrlanRolinLelanJalanRollaAzlanKalanMylanRolenAylanAslanKelanRolfNylanZylanRolfeRollieKeylanNilanMarlan

Sibling names for Rolan

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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