Rolanda

Where Rolanda comes from

Roland with feminine suffix?
— Wiktionary's entry for Rolanda
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1944
    First appearance
    #4,574 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1971
    Peak, #798
    176 babies named Rolanda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1979
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,569.
  4. 1987
    Rolanda Bell born
    Panamanian female steeplechase runner
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Rolanda Bell · Panamanian female steeplechase runner, born 1987
  • Rolanda Hollis · American politician

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.