Rolando
Last seen for girls in 1995 at #13,386 · #1,370 for boys in 2025, 135 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 459 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 24,438since 1916
Rolando over time
Rank among boys' names. Rolando has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,370 | 135 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,271 | 155 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,217 | 163 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,213 | 163 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,158 | 172 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,203 | 157 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,123 | 174 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,101 | 178 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,036 | 194 | |
| 2016 | — | #935 | 224 | |
| 2015 | — | #951 | 217 | |
| 2014 | — | #904 | 238 | |
| 2013 | — | #857 | 250 | |
| 2012 | — | #888 | 236 | |
| 2011 | — | #797 | 277 | |
| 2010 | — | #720 | 319 | |
| 2009 | — | #696 | 345 | |
| 2008 | — | #604 | 415 | |
| 2007 | — | #569 | 452 | |
| 2006 | — | #571 | 438 | |
| 2005 | — | #555 | 431 | |
| 2004 | — | #527 | 453 | |
| 2003 | — | #552 | 405 | |
| 2002 | — | #537 | 417 | |
| 2001 | — | #509 | 446 | |
| 2000 | — | #520 | 430 | |
| 1999 | — | #550 | 365 | |
| 1998 | — | #496 | 435 | |
| 1997 | — | #507 | 404 | |
| 1996 | — | #521 | 384 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #489 | 441 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #463 | 473 |
| 1993 | — | #517 | 393 | |
| 1992 | — | #501 | 403 | |
| 1991 | — | #498 | 391 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #495 | 386 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #481 | 395 |
| 1988 | — | #434 | 431 | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #439 | 408 |
| 1986 | — | #415 | 422 | |
| 1985 | — | #427 | 403 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #389 | 441 |
| 1983 | — | #387 | 429 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #426 | 385 |
| 1981 | — | #383 | 446 | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #373 | 459 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #376 | 455 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #390 | 395 |
| 1977 | — | #405 | 372 | |
| 1976 | — | #421 | 342 | |
| 1975 | — | #375 | 423 | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #413 | 360 |
| 1973 | — | #432 | 325 | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #444 | 320 |
| 1971 | — | #438 | 348 | |
| 1970 | — | #454 | 323 | |
| 1969 | — | #481 | 254 | |
| 1968 | — | #459 | 281 | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | #467 | 264 |
| 1966 | — | #474 | 262 | |
| 1965 | — | #453 | 291 | |
| 1964 | — | #496 | 253 | |
| 1963 | — | #507 | 252 | |
| 1962 | — | #485 | 265 | |
| 1961 | — | #489 | 259 | |
| 1960 | — | #481 | 271 | |
| 1959 | — | #527 | 224 | |
| 1958 | — | #561 | 190 | |
| 1957 | — | #528 | 215 | |
| 1956 | — | #556 | 186 | |
| 1955 | — | #567 | 170 | |
| 1954 | — | #597 | 154 | |
| 1953 | — | #607 | 143 | |
| 1952 | — | #594 | 139 | |
| 1951 | — | #635 | 123 | |
| 1950 | — | #791 | 74 | |
| 1949 | — | #878 | 61 | |
| 1948 | — | #923 | 56 | |
| 1947 | — | #889 | 61 | |
| 1946 | — | #862 | 58 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,122 | 34 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,235 | 29 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,258 | 30 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,074 | 40 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,532 | 20 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,227 | 30 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,636 | 17 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,149 | 32 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,403 | 23 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,639 | 17 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,453 | 22 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,905 | 14 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,387 | 25 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,843 | 16 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,609 | 10 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,002 | 15 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,522 | 11 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,436 | 12 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,822 | 10 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,801 | 10 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,214 | 8 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,368 | 7 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rolando! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Rolando
- 99 spots since 2024 (#1,271 → #1,370)
- 167 spots since 2020 (#1,203 → #1,370)
- 419 spots since 2015 (#951 → #1,370)
- Biggest jump: 260 spots in 1946 (#1,122 → #862)
- Biggest drop: 101 spots in 2017 (#935 → #1,036)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1980 at #373 (459 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 35 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 71 yrs · run 1946–2016
- Highest: 1 in 3,691 boys born in 1975 were named Rolando (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,652 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #373 in 1980, was only 1 in 3,887 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.3% of all boys named Rolando (4,232) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 18 | #3,368 (1918) | #3,667 |
| 1920s | 93 | #2,002 (1929) | #3,041 |
| 1930s | 197 | #1,149 (1938) | #1,652 |
| 1940s | 419 | #862 (1946) | #1,100 |
| 1950s | 1,618 | #527 (1959) | #596 |
| 1960s | 2,652 | #453 (1965) | #479 |
| 1970s | 3,663 | #375 (1975) | #415 |
| 1980s | 4,219 | #373 (1980) | #415 |
| 1990s | 4,075 | #463 (1994) | #504 |
| 2000s | 4,232 | #509 (2001) | #564 |
| 2010s | 2,307 | #720 (2010) | #931 |
| 2020s | 945 | #1,158 (2021) | #1,239 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rolando in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
Top boys' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 253,541 of them was named Rolando, which outranked 24.6% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,558Yukiko7
- #6,558Zorina7
- #6,558Zully7
- #7,292Rolando6
- #7,292Adonia6
- #7,292Afua6
- #7,292Aggie6
- #8,292Aarona5
- #8,292Abigale5
- #8,292Adabel5
Tied with 999 names at #7,292; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,621,608 boys got a published name in 1972; 1 in 5,068 of them was named Rolando, which outranked 92.3% of the 5,751 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.