Yolande
Yolande was last recorded in 1997, when 5 babies were given it; 1,620 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yolande by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yolande mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yolande is “a female given name from French”
Borrowed from French Yolande. Doublet of Yolanda.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yolande?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,114, in 1997; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1970, the peak
Yolande peaked in 1970, when 40 girls were given it, #2,080 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 5 | #16,114 | 2.9 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,718 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,764 | 2.8 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,344 | 3.3 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,813 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,162 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,301 | 5.4 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,223 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,960 | 9.0 |
| 1980 | 11 | #6,315 | 6.6 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 14 | #5,089 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,240 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,649 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 16 | #4,151 | 10.9 |
| 1975 | 18 | #3,771 | 12.3 |
| 1974 | 25 | #2,920 | 17.0 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,912 | 16.5 |
| 1972 | 23 | #2,974 | 15.1 |
| 1971 | 26 | #2,800 | 15.6 |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,080 | 22.9 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,644 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 36 | #2,023 | 21.9 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,490 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 23 | #2,583 | 13.6 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,536 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,823 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,361 | 14.0 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,208 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 29 | #2,248 | 14.4 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,510 | 11.9 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,150 | 14.3 |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,257 | 12.9 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,560 | 10.3 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,247 | 12.5 |
| 1955 | 17 | #2,837 | 8.7 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,873 | 16.5 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,971 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,576 | 20.5 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,312 | 11.1 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,909 | 15.2 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,130 | 12.9 |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,699 | 8.8 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,236 | 6.8 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,028 | 7.6 |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,454 | 10.7 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,760 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,488 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,662 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 10 | #3,023 | 8.3 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,421 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,204 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,576 | 10.9 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,097 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,259 | 13.5 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,091 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,554 | 23.0 |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,329 | 29.8 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,362 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 23 | #1,633 | 21.6 |
| 1930 | 24 | #1,659 | 21.3 |
| 1929 | 34 | #1,303 | 30.5 |
| 1928 | 26 | #1,635 | 22.5 |
| 1927 | 34 | #1,402 | 28.5 |
| 1926 | 24 | #1,770 | 20.2 |
| 1925 | 34 | #1,408 | 27.9 |
| 1924 | 26 | #1,720 | 20.8 |
| 1923 | 24 | #1,781 | 19.9 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,610 | 23.3 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,575 | 23.5 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,548 | 24.2 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,563 | 23.9 |
| 1918 | 34 | #1,332 | 29.4 |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,098 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 27 | #1,444 | 25.9 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,140 | 15.2 |
| 1914 | 17 | #1,663 | 22.3 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,764 | 20.8 |
| 1912 | 16 | #1,419 | 28.7 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,189 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 5 | #2,785 | 12.6 |
| 1909 | 5 | #2,544 | 14.4 |
| 1906 | 6 | #1,947 | 20.3 |
| 1902 | 5 | #2,040 | 18.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yolande a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yolande has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yolande: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yolande, and how old are they?
An estimated 832 Americans named Yolande and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (51% of everyone recorded); the median is 63 years old and half are between 54 and 72. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 2,505 people named Yolande (2,490 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 945 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 122,259 babies since 1880, Yolande is the third most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 49 babies recorded by SSA was a Yolande (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 Yolande
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 Yolande and names like it
- Compare Yolande and YolandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sYolande peaked in 1970.
- Louisiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yolande since 1910.
- French namesWiktionary’s origin for Yolande: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Yolande.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Yolande alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with YMost given first.