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Rolande

Girls' name

Feminine form of Roland

Rolande has been given to 467 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1924, with 25 recorded.

Babies named Rolande, 1963

1 in 792,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rolande: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Roland

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rolande means

Rolande is a feminine form of Roland.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Rolande is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ʁɔ.lɑ̃d/ for Rolande.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Rolande is a feminine form of Roland. Roland has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roland.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Rolande is pronounced /ʁɔ.lɑ̃d/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 467 girls were recorded with the name Rolande between 1913 and 1963. Its highest annual count was 25 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,651 in 1930.

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 Rolande?

Rolande had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1963
1 in 792,000
5 of 3,958,455 births
Among girls only
1 in 385,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1963
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,760 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rolande 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 1963 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 548,760 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rolande. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rolandes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rolande was born before 1931 — so the typical Rolande is around 94 today.

Median birth year
1931
About 94 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
33.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
62
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1920s — 33.0% of all recorded uses (154).

Is Rolande 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 1924 (25)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,651
1930

Spellings of Rolande

Rolande is not the most common spelling — Yolanda is, with 55.7% against Rolande's 0.23%.

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 Rolande is used

Across 1910–2025, Rolande was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 4,762 girls, against 1 in 27,787 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 100,000).

121 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 4,762
  2. 2New Hampshire1 in 25,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 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. Rolande has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rolande around the world

Where Rolande 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.

  • France
    1900–2009
    #6,911
    in 2009

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Rolande 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
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Best rank ever
#1,651
1930
Peak year
1924
25 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
1963
All-time count
467
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rolande

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

RollandeRollinsRolindaRolondaRolandRoleneRolandoRolandaFernandeYetundeRolayneYolandeRolenaRolleneKehindeLindeLyndeBrandeAndeRolishaRolaCyndeSandeRolla

Sibling names for Rolande

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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