Rollo
Rollo was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,776 among boys’ names; 949 Americans have been recorded with it since 1881 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Rollo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Rollo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Rollo is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.”
Latinization of the Old French equivalent of the English Rolf.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Rollo?
#8,776 among boys’ names, 2025
Rollo fell from #7,919 in 2015 to #8,776 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 5.2 to 5.3 per million.
38 babies in 1918, the peak
Rollo peaked in 1918, when 38 boys were given it, #1,123 among boys’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,776 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,649 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 5 | #13,763 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,156 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,473 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,588 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #9,572 | 4.5 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,490 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,014 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,670 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,919 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,888 | 2.7 |
| 1980 | 6 | #6,091 | 3.4 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,256 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,112 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,638 | 5.8 |
| 1962 | 9 | #3,004 | 4.4 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,500 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,500 | 3.2 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,868 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,160 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,407 | 3.4 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,164 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,148 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 6 | #3,621 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,423 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,671 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,932 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,264 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 10 | #2,441 | 7.3 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,926 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,903 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,841 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,083 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,947 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,454 | 9.0 |
| 1937 | 15 | #1,900 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 18 | #1,633 | 17.4 |
| 1935 | 18 | #1,701 | 17.3 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,004 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,078 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,702 | 18.2 |
| 1931 | 22 | #1,527 | 21.2 |
| 1930 | 16 | #1,945 | 14.6 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,596 | 20.5 |
| 1928 | 18 | #1,889 | 16.3 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,284 | 12.4 |
| 1926 | 17 | #1,965 | 15.3 |
| 1925 | 30 | #1,356 | 26.9 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,448 | 24.7 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,801 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,632 | 21.1 |
| 1921 | 23 | #1,638 | 20.9 |
| 1920 | 27 | #1,453 | 25.4 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,346 | 29.6 |
| 1918 | 38 | #1,123 | 37.5 |
| 1917 | 32 | #1,218 | 34.6 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,329 | 30.3 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,365 | 29.5 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,846 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,564 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,512 | 27.9 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,948 | 22.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,389 | 37.8 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,367 | 39.0 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,275 | 41.9 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,113 | 48.9 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,177 | 47.1 |
| 1898 | 8 | #874 | 65.2 |
| 1896 | 7 | #963 | 58.5 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,154 | 44.5 |
| 1892 | 7 | #938 | 57.4 |
| 1891 | 7 | #828 | 69.2 |
| 1890 | 7 | #866 | 63.0 |
| 1889 | 7 | #869 | 63.3 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,015 | 49.6 |
| 1887 | 6 | #896 | 59.2 |
| 1886 | 6 | #943 | 54.2 |
| 1884 | 7 | #832 | 61.2 |
| 1882 | 6 | #927 | 52.8 |
| 1881 | 7 | #768 | 69.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Rollo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Rollo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Rollo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Rollo, and how old are they?
An estimated 219 Americans named Rollo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 6 and 75. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 311 people named Rollo (11 women and girls, 300 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 215 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,351 babies since 1880, Rollo is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 28 babies (32%), the second 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 Rollo
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 Rollo and names like it
- Compare Rollo and RollieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sRollo peaked in 1918.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Rollo since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Rollo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Rollo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Rollo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with RMost given first.