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Yolonda

Girls' name

Variant of Yolanda

Yolonda has been given to 3,874 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1972, with 188 recorded.

Babies named Yolonda, 2006

1 in 791,000

Yolonda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yolonda: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Yolanda

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yolonda means

Yolonda is a variant of Yolanda.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yolonda is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /joʊ.ˈlɑn.də/ and /jəʊ.ˈlɒn.də/ for Yolonda.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yolanda.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,874 girls were recorded with the name Yolonda between 1923 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 188 in 1972; its best national rank was #747 in 1972.

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 Yolonda?

Yolonda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yolonda 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yolonda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yolondas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yolonda was born before 1970 — so the typical Yolonda is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
35.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,709
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 35.5% of all recorded uses (1,375).

Is Yolonda 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 1972 (188)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#747
1972

Spellings of Yolonda

Yolonda is not the most common spelling — Yolanda is, with 85.1% against Yolonda's 2.9%.

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 Yolonda is used

Across 1910–2025, Yolonda was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 61,715 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 16,667
  2. 2Mississippi1 in 25,000
  3. 3District of Columbia1 in 33,333
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5Arkansas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 50,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 50,000

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

Notable people named Yolonda

People whose public names include Yolonda, 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.

Yolonda 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
#747
1972
Peak year
1972
188 that year
First recorded
1923
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
3,874
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yolonda

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

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Names with a curve like Yolonda

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

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Sibling names for Yolonda

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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