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Rolland

#5,794 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Roland

Rolland has been given to 9,873 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,794 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1928, with 264 recorded.

Babies named Rolland, 2025

1 in 207,000

Rolland over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rolland: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Roland

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rolland means

Rolland is a variant of Roland.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Rolland is a variant of Roland. Roland has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roland.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,868 boys were recorded with the name Rolland between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 264 in 1928; its best national rank was #353 in 1928.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,116 in 2020 to #5,794 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,856 in 2015 to #5,794 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Rolland between 1930 and 1930. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1930; its best national rank was #5,125 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.

How common is Rolland?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,794
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rolland 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rolland. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rollands were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rolland was born before 1934 — so the typical Rolland is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,636
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1920s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (2,282).

Is Rolland 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
−954
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,678
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−938
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.1%
Peak was 1928 (264)
Years since peak
97
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#353
1928

Spellings of Rolland

Rolland is not the most common spelling — Roland is, with 59.9% against Rolland's 5.9%.

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 Rolland is used

Across 1910–2025, Rolland was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 3,333 boys, against 1 in 22,045 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

030 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 in 3,333
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 6,250
  3. 3Iowa1 in 6,667
  4. 4South Dakota1 in 7,143
  5. 5Kansas1 in 9,091
  6. 6Michigan1 in 9,091
  7. 7Ohio1 in 9,091
  8. 8North Dakota1 in 10,000

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

Rolland around the world

Where Rolland 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
    1900–1997
    #3,502
    in 1997
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #1,611
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1945–1989
    #478
    in 1989

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

Notable people named Rolland

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

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.

Rolland in other languages

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

RolandOrlandoLórántRolands

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

Rolland by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,794
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,678
Best rank ever
#353
1928
Peak year
1928
264 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,868
Count in 2025
16

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,125
1930
Peak year
1930
5 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
1930
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Rolland

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

RolandRolandoRollinRollieHarlandRowlandWaylandGarlandRylandLeelandHollandArmandFerdinandRollinsNormandOaklandRolfCortlandClevelandZealandCourtlandArlandRolanNoland

Names with a curve like Rolland

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

LavernHershelWilburnBufordDelmerWilfordDelmarMerrillWiltonOdisBurlMaynard

Sibling names for Rolland

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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