Yolunda

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Yolunda has been given to 240 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 23 recorded.

Babies named Yolunda, 1986

1 in 711,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Yolunda?

Yolunda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1986
1 in 711,000
5 of 3,556,724 births
Among girls only
1 in 343,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1986
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
493,068 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yolunda 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 1986 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 493,068 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yolunda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yolundas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yolunda was born before 1972 — so the typical Yolunda is around 53 today.

Median birth year
1972
About 53 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
53.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
96.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
240
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 53.3% of all recorded uses (128).

Is Yolunda 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 (23)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,914
1969

Spellings of Yolunda

Yolunda is not the most common spelling — Yolanda is, with 87.0% against Yolunda's 0.18%.

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 Yolunda is used

Across 1910–2025, Yolunda was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,590,004 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Yolunda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yolunda 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
#2,914
1969
Peak year
1972
23 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
240
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yolunda

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Sibling names for Yolunda

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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