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Yolande

Girls' name

Form of Yolanda

Yolande has been given to 1,620 babies in the U.S. since 1902. 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 1970, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Yolande, 1997

1 in 725,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yolande: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Yolanda

French

What Yolande means

Yolande is a form of Yolanda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yolande is used in French.

Another recorded pronunciation is /jɔ.lɑ̃d/ for Yolande.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yolande → Yolanda. The family’s proposed meaning is “violet + flower”, recorded in English with the source elements ἴον and ἄνθος.

Origin, language, and formation

Yolande is used in English and French. Its origins include French.

Yolande comes through French Yolande.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yolanda.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Yolande is pronounced /jɔ.lɑ̃d/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,620 girls were recorded with the name Yolande between 1902 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,303 in 1929.

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 Yolande?

Yolande had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1997, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1997
1 in 725,000
5 of 3,624,676 births
Among girls only
1 in 348,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1997
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
502,488 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yolande 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 1997 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 502,488 children born in 1997 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yolande. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yolandes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yolande was born before 1950 — so the typical Yolande is around 75 today.

Median birth year
1950
About 75 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
818
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1920s — 17.8% of all recorded uses (288).

Is Yolande 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 1970 (40)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,303
1929

Spellings of Yolande

Yolande is not the most common spelling — Yolanda is, with 88.8% against Yolande's 1.3%.

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 Yolande is used

Across 1910–2025, Yolande was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 90,306 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 20,000
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 33,333
  3. 3New Hampshire1 in 33,333
  4. 4Vermont1 in 33,333
  5. 5Alabama1 in 100,000
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  7. 7New York1 in —

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

Yolande around the world

Where Yolande 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
    1996–2001
    #3,998
    in 2001
  • Scotland
    1975–1975
    #429
    in 1975
  • Ireland
    1964–1964
    #372
    in 1964
  • France
    1900–2022
    #6,156
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1952–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Yolande 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
#1,303
1929
Peak year
1970
40 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
1,620
Count in 2025
Under 5

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

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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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