Rolla
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Rolla has been given to 1,371 babies in the U.S. since 1880. 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 1916, with 45 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.
Babies named Rolla, 1964
1 in 648,000
Rolla over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Rolla over time
In 1964, Rolla went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Rolla?
Rolla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1964, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1964
- 1 in 648,000
- 6 of 3,887,460 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 332,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1964
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 449,098 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Rolla sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1964 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 449,098 children born in 1964 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rolla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Rollas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Rolla was born before 1922 — so the typical Rolla is around 103 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 22.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 127
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (291).
Is Rolla 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 1916 (45)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.7% average annual change
Spellings of Rolla
Rolla is not the most common spelling — Rolland is, with 27.6% against Rolla's 3.7%.
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 Rolla is used
Across 1910–2025, Rolla was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 91,046 across all states with data. It was least common in Indiana (1 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. Rolla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Rolla around the world
Where Rolla 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.
- South Australia1987–1988#657in 1988
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Rolla by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Rolla
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Rolla
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.