girls:
112.8k births since 1901
#336 (94th percentile)
boys:
537 births since 1943
#4049 (12th percentile)
overall:
113.3k births since 1901
#621 (92nd percentile)
The name Yolanda is the #621 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 113,331 recorded births since 1901. This represents the 92.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 92.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #336 (94.1% percentile) for all time with 112,794 births since 1901. For boys, it ranks #4,049 (11.7% percentile) for all time with 537 births since 1943.
Yolanda first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1901 (1901 for girls and 1943 for boys).
The name Yolanda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Yolanda reached its peak popularity in 1972, achieving the 88.3% percentile (ranked #88) with 2,108 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 2,162 births per million (ranked 87.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1972, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Yolanda ranks #892 for girls (5.8% percentile) with 34 births per million, which is 1.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Yolanda reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #623) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 14 births per million (ranked 3.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yolanda".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Yolanda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 52.3% confident that Yolanda is pronounced as yoh-LAHN-duh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yoh-LAN-duh, at 31.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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