Rolan
Rolan was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,566 among boys’ names; 1,084 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rolan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rolan?
#5,566 among boys’ names, 2025
Rolan fell from #4,855 in 2015 to #5,566 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 10.0 per million.
33 babies in 2021, the peak
Rolan peaked in 2021, when 33 boys were given it, #3,477 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,566 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,670 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 17 | #5,614 | 9.9 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,853 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 33 | #3,477 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,243 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,298 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,192 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 24 | #4,304 | 13.0 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,174 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,855 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,669 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 20 | #4,759 | 10.6 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,198 | 9.5 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,888 | 7.9 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,625 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,499 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,670 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,535 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,259 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,423 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,408 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 6 | #10,597 | 3.0 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,332 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 10 | #6,720 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,269 | 3.7 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,937 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,379 | 4.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,591 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,479 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,419 | 4.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,781 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,711 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 17 | #3,046 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,234 | 4.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,052 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,879 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 5 | #7,099 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,243 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,371 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,392 | 7.3 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,798 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,791 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,729 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,812 | 3.4 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,621 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,898 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,620 | 2.9 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,851 | 3.2 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,541 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 5 | #4,514 | 2.5 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,251 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,306 | 3.8 |
| 1960 | 8 | #3,287 | 3.8 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,516 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,794 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,762 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,811 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,126 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,375 | 6.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,836 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,631 | 5.3 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,618 | 3.4 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,979 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,967 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 11 | #2,478 | 6.0 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,873 | 4.9 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,111 | 8.9 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,925 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 10 | #2,500 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,088 | 5.7 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,418 | 9.0 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,160 | 10.8 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,128 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 13 | #2,046 | 12.5 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,679 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,100 | 12.6 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,512 | 10.1 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,808 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,613 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,422 | 10.9 |
| 1929 | 12 | #2,436 | 11.2 |
| 1928 | 14 | #2,247 | 12.6 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,872 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,646 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,718 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,981 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,928 | 16.4 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,805 | 6.4 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,926 | 9.4 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,485 | 12.2 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,318 | 7.9 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,135 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,753 | 7.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rolan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rolan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rolan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rolan, and how old are they?
An estimated 767 Americans named Rolan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (71% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 9 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 979 people named Rolan (25 women and girls, 954 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 677 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rolan rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,983 babies since 1880, Rolan is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 42 babies (40%), the most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Rolan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Timoteo | 1,473 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Rolan and names like it
- Compare Rolan and RollinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Rolan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rolan alive today were born 2013-2025.
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