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Rolly

#11,725 in 2025Boys' name

Fame-land, through Roland

Rolly has been given to 437 babies in the U.S. since 1888. In 2025 it ranked #11,725 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1943, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Rolly, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Rolly: meaning, origin, and history

Fame-land, through Roland

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Rolly means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Rolly is used in English and Tagalog.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Roland and Rolando.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Tagalog, Rolly is pronounced /ˈɾoli/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 437 boys were recorded with the name Rolly between 1888 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1943; its best national rank was #1,155 in 1888.

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 Rolly?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,725
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Rolly 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Rolly. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Rollys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Rolly was born before 1945 — so the typical Rolly is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
19.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
4.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
170
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1940s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Rolly 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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Rank vs 5 years ago
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Rank vs 10 years ago
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Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
40.0%
Peak was 1943 (15)
Years since peak
82
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,155
1888

Spellings of Rolly

Rolly is not the most common spelling — Roy is, with 34.2% against Rolly's 0.04%.

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 Rolly is used

Across 1910–2025, Rolly was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 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. Rolly has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Rolly around the world

Where Rolly 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
    2007–2022
    #7,099
    in 2022

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

Rolly by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,725
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,155
1888
Peak year
1943
15 that year
First recorded
1888
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
437
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Rolly

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

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Sibling names for Rolly

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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