Rolla
Rolla was last recorded in 1964, when 6 babies were given it; 1,371 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rolla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Rolla?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,956, in 1964; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
45 babies in 1916, the peak
Rolla peaked in 1916, when 45 boys were given it, #962 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 6 | #3,956 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,590 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,572 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,869 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 9 | #3,033 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,785 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,471 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 15 | #2,118 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,271 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,868 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 14 | #2,135 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #2,348 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #2,414 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,253 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,756 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,974 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,937 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,753 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,569 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,057 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,126 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 18 | #1,679 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,788 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 15 | #1,859 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,298 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 21 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1936 | 24 | #1,380 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,010 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,599 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,446 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,983 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,912 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,475 | 0.02 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,888 | 0.02 |
| 1927 | 31 | #1,346 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,556 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 31 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,447 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 32 | #1,293 | 0.03 |
| 1922 | 33 | #1,279 | 0.03 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1920 | 37 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,345 | 0.03 |
| 1918 | 37 | #1,149 | 0.04 |
| 1917 | 36 | #1,130 | 0.04 |
| 1916 | 45 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 26 | #1,333 | 0.03 |
| 1914 | 10 | #2,243 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,198 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,508 | 0.03 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,399 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 10 | #936 | 0.06 |
| 1907 | 11 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,382 | 0.04 |
| 1904 | 8 | #949 | 0.06 |
| 1903 | 6 | #1,107 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 8 | #916 | 0.07 |
| 1901 | 7 | #927 | 0.07 |
| 1900 | 10 | #892 | 0.07 |
| 1899 | 10 | #705 | 0.09 |
| 1898 | 12 | #656 | 0.10 |
| 1897 | 10 | #716 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 15 | #548 | 0.13 |
| 1895 | 9 | #786 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 11 | #663 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 9 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1892 | 14 | #569 | 0.11 |
| 1891 | 22 | #371 | 0.22 |
| 1890 | 10 | #661 | 0.09 |
| 1889 | 17 | #460 | 0.15 |
| 1888 | 14 | #550 | 0.12 |
| 1887 | 14 | #481 | 0.14 |
| 1886 | 18 | #427 | 0.16 |
| 1885 | 11 | #597 | 0.10 |
| 1884 | 14 | #519 | 0.12 |
| 1883 | 19 | #411 | 0.18 |
| 1882 | 17 | #446 | 0.15 |
| 1881 | 16 | #439 | 0.16 |
| 1880 | 18 | #421 | 0.16 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rolla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,371 Americans recorded as Rolla, 5% are girls and 95% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Rolla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rolla, and how old are they?
An estimated 184 Americans named Rolla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (13% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 71 and 83. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 509 people named Rolla (158 women and girls, 351 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 263 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Rolla 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).
Where are babies named Rolla born?
The states with the most babies named Rolla are Missouri, Illinois and Kansas, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Missouri and Kansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 154 | not ranked | 5.3× |
| Illinois | 54 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kansas | 17 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| West Virginia | 10 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Rolla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Rolla is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1910 it was given 5.3 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 boys’ 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 Rolla 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,351 babies since 1880, Rolla is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 none of their 28 babies recorded by SSA was a Rolla (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Rolla
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 Rolla and names like it
- Compare Rolla and RollieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sRolla peaked in 1916.
- Missouri’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rolla since 1910.
- The top names of 1916The year the most babies were named Rolla.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Rolla alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with RMost given first.