Rolando

Where Rolando comes from

Rolando hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1916
    First appearance
    #3,897 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1980
    Peak, #373
    459 babies named Rolando — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1985
    Rolando born
    Portuguese footballer
  4. 1997
    Rolando Mandragora born
    Italian footballer
  5. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #951.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Rolando · Portuguese footballer, born 1985
  • Rolando Mandragora · Italian footballer, born 1997
  • Rolando Fonseca · Costa Rican footballer, born 1974
  • Rolando Bianchi · Italian footballer, born 1983
  • Rolando Aarons · English football player, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.