girls:
65 births since 1921
#5651 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.3k births since 1880
#3309 (28th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1880
#6372 (18th percentile)
The name Rolla is the #6,372 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,371 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 17.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 17.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,309 (27.8% percentile) for all time with 1,306 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,651 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 65 births since 1921.
Rolla has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls). Birth data for Rolla is available in 81 out of the 85 years between 1880 and 1964 (81 years for boys and 10 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 Rolla has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rolla reached its peak popularity in 1891, achieving the 8.5% percentile (ranked #185) with 201 births per million. The name was most common in 1891, with 201 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1964.
For girls, Rolla reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #601) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1954.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rolla".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Rolla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.8% confident that Rolla is pronounced as RAH-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ROH-luh, at 37.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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