girls:
5 births since 1930
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
9.8k births since 1880
#1178 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.8k births since 1880
#2697 (65th percentile)
The name Rolland is the #2,697 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,836 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 65.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 65.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,178 (74.3% percentile) for all time with 9,831 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1930.
Rolland has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1930 for girls).
The name Rolland has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Rolland reached its peak popularity in 1928, achieving the 40.4% percentile (ranked #324) with 231 births per million. The name was most common in 1928, with 231 births per million (ranked 40.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Rolland ranks #891 for boys (2.2% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 5.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Rolland reached its peak popularity in 1930, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #593) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1930, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1930.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Rolland".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Roland. View all variations of Roland.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Rolland", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 3 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Roland" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Roland..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Rolland. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.2% confident that Rolland is pronounced as ROH-luhnd, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is RAH-luhnd, at 31.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like R OW1 L AH0 N D) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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