Rolanda

Girls' name

Feminine form of Roland

Rolanda has been given to 3,417 babies in the U.S. since 1944. 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 1971, with 176 recorded.

Babies named Rolanda, 2015

1 in 617,000

Rolanda over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rolanda: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Roland

Germanic languages

What Rolanda means

Rolanda is a feminine form of Roland.

Origin, language, and formation

Rolanda is used in English and German. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roland.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,386 girls were recorded with the name Rolanda between 1944 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 176 in 1971; its best national rank was #800 in 1971.

In the United States, 31 boys were recorded with the name Rolanda between 1968 and 1991. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1989; its best national rank was #4,621 in 1968.

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 Rolanda?

Rolanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015: 1 in 617,000; 6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only: 1 in 297,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 427,624 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Rolanda 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rolanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rolandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rolanda was born before 1973 — so the typical Rolanda is around 52 today.

Median birth year: 1973; About 52 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 12.1%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 3,316; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (1,248).

Is Rolanda 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1971 (176)
Years since peak: 54; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 47.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #800; 1971

Spellings of Rolanda

Rolanda is not the most common spelling — Yolanda is, with 51.3% against Rolanda's 1.5%.

Yolanda51.3%112,918
Ronda15.6%34,315
Rosanna6.6%14,636
Roxanna6.1%13,459
Roxana5.4%11,994
Yolonda1.8%3,874
Randa1.7%3,690
Solana1.6%3,446

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 Rolanda is used

Across 1910–2025, Rolanda was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 88,543 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Louisiana1 in 25,000
2Mississippi1 in 33,333
3Alabama1 in 50,000
4Florida1 in 50,000
5Illinois1 in 50,000
6Michigan1 in 50,000
7Texas1 in 50,000
8California1 in 100,000

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. Rolanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rolanda around the world

Where Rolanda 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
2004–2004
#4,598
in 2004
Canada
1995–1995
#2,576
in 1995
South Australia
1965–1965
#674
in 1965

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

Notable people named Rolanda

People whose public names include Rolanda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

Rolanda BellAthletics competitor
b. 1987

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Rolanda in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Rolanda. Linked forms have their own page here.

Orlanda

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Rolanda 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: #800; 1971
Peak year: 1971; 176 that year
First recorded: 1944
Last recorded: 2015
All-time count: 3,386
Count in 2025: Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,621; 1968
Peak year: 1989; 6 that year
First recorded: 1968
Last recorded: 1991
All-time count: 31
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Rolanda

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

Rolonda Rolinda Jacinda Myranda Lorinda Brianda Herlinda Celinda Brinda Maranda Lavonda Malynda Florinda Yolonda Meranda Irlanda Tawanda Melynda Shawnda Erlinda Randa Dorinda Rosenda Laronda

Names with a curve like Rolanda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Rolanda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Cristi Tracee Angella Carri Karey Shonna Carin Dione Shona Tobi Christel Marni

Sibling names for Rolanda

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

For a sister

Trena Charisse Darcie Michell Tressa Kerrie Nicola Latonia

For a brother

Shon Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Scottie Erich Edwardo

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