girls:
78 births since 1967
#5638 (1st percentile)
boys:
24.1k births since 1916
#738 (84th percentile)
overall:
24.2k births since 1916
#1632 (79th percentile)
The name Rolando is the #1,632 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 24,226 recorded births since 1916. This represents the 78.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 78.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #738 (83.9% percentile) for all time with 24,148 births since 1916. For girls, it ranks #5,638 (1.3% percentile) for all time with 78 births since 1967.
Rolando first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1916 (1916 for boys and 1967 for girls). Birth data for Rolando is available in 107 out of the 108 years between 1916 and 2023 (107 years for boys and 13 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Rolando has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rolando reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 49.4% percentile (ranked #345) with 247 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 261 births per million (ranked 47.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rolando ranks #753 for boys (17.4% percentile) with 89 births per million, which is 34.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rolando reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #819) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rolando".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rolando. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.8% confident that Rolando is pronounced as roh-LAHN-doh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is roh-LAN-doh, at 27.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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