Rolanda
Rolanda was last recorded in 2015, when 6 babies were given it; 3,417 Americans have been recorded with it between 1944 and 2015 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,130 Americans named Rolanda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 44 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rolanda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rolanda mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rolanda is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.”
Roland with feminine suffix?
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rolanda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,036, in 2015; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
176 babies in 1971, the peak
Rolanda peaked in 1971, when 176 girls were given it, #800 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #16,036 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,655 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,664 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,352 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,025 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,518 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,943 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,902 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 15 | #7,238 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,452 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 8 | #11,144 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,750 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,780 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 34 | #3,411 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,231 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 80 | #1,804 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,029 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,994 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,905 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 48 | #2,506 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 33 | #3,229 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 50 | #2,264 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,298 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,502 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,069 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 40 | #2,408 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,064 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 56 | #1,916 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 66 | #1,729 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 74 | #1,579 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,587 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 97 | #1,273 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 125 | #1,056 | 0.08 |
| 1976 | 121 | #1,029 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 143 | #913 | 0.10 |
| 1974 | 133 | #936 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 115 | #1,024 | 0.08 |
| 1972 | 125 | #969 | 0.08 |
| 1971 | 176 | #800 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 140 | #924 | 0.08 |
| 1969 | 125 | #959 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 114 | #976 | 0.07 |
| 1967 | 82 | #1,181 | 0.05 |
| 1966 | 96 | #1,075 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 86 | #1,155 | 0.05 |
| 1964 | 71 | #1,341 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,502 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 45 | #1,703 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,027 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 35 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,096 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 35 | #1,867 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,722 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 49 | #1,526 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 50 | #1,436 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,641 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,730 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 39 | #1,551 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 32 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,379 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,165 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 19 | #2,315 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,612 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,856 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,343 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,114 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Rolanda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rolanda has been given almost only to girls: 31 boys in 66 years of records.
Girls and boys named Rolanda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rolanda, and how old are they?
3,130 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 3,417 Americans ever recorded as Rolanda. The median Rolanda alive today is 52 years old; half are between 44 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 3,042 people named Rolanda (2,978 women and girls, 64 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,210 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 8 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 526 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 745 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 142 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Rolanda born?
The states with the most babies named Rolanda are Texas, New York and Illinois, with 36% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 213 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 153 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 141 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 112 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 111 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 102 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 87 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 85 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Mississippi | 66 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 59 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Rolanda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rolanda is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1944 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Rolanda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,898 babies since 1880, Rolanda is the most given (70% of them).
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 Rolanda
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Rolanda and names like it
- Compare Rolanda and RolondaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sRolanda peaked in 1971.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rolanda since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rolanda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Rolanda.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Rolanda alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with RMost given first.