Rolando
Last seen for girls in 1995 at #13,386 · #1,370 for boys in 2025, 135 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1980 · 459 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 24,438since 1916
Rolando over time
Rank among boys' names. Rolando has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,370 | 135 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,271 | 155 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,217 | 163 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,213 | 163 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,158 | 172 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,203 | 157 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,123 | 174 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,101 | 178 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,036 | 194 | |
| 2016 | — | #935 | 224 | |
| 2015 | — | #951 | 217 | |
| 2014 | — | #904 | 238 | |
| 2013 | — | #857 | 250 | |
| 2012 | — | #888 | 236 | |
| 2011 | — | #797 | 277 | |
| 2010 | — | #720 | 319 | |
| 2009 | — | #696 | 345 | |
| 2008 | — | #604 | 415 | |
| 2007 | — | #569 | 452 | |
| 2006 | — | #571 | 438 | |
| 2005 | — | #555 | 431 | |
| 2004 | — | #527 | 453 | |
| 2003 | — | #552 | 405 | |
| 2002 | — | #537 | 417 | |
| 2001 | — | #509 | 446 | |
| 2000 | — | #520 | 430 | |
| 1999 | — | #550 | 365 | |
| 1998 | — | #496 | 435 | |
| 1997 | — | #507 | 404 | |
| 1996 | — | #521 | 384 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #489 | 441 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #463 | 473 |
| 1993 | — | #517 | 393 | |
| 1992 | — | #501 | 403 | |
| 1991 | — | #498 | 391 | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #495 | 386 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #481 | 395 |
| 1988 | — | #434 | 431 | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | #439 | 408 |
| 1986 | — | #415 | 422 | |
| 1985 | — | #427 | 403 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | #389 | 441 |
| 1983 | — | #387 | 429 | |
| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 | #426 | 385 |
| 1981 | — | #383 | 446 | |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #373 | 459 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #376 | 455 |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #390 | 395 |
| 1977 | — | #405 | 372 | |
| 1976 | — | #421 | 342 | |
| 1975 | — | #375 | 423 | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | #413 | 360 |
| 1973 | — | #432 | 325 | |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | #444 | 320 |
| 1971 | — | #438 | 348 | |
| 1970 | — | #454 | 323 | |
| 1969 | — | #481 | 254 | |
| 1968 | — | #459 | 281 | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | #467 | 264 |
| 1966 | — | #474 | 262 | |
| 1965 | — | #453 | 291 | |
| 1964 | — | #496 | 253 | |
| 1963 | — | #507 | 252 | |
| 1962 | — | #485 | 265 | |
| 1961 | — | #489 | 259 | |
| 1960 | — | #481 | 271 | |
| 1959 | — | #527 | 224 | |
| 1958 | — | #561 | 190 | |
| 1957 | — | #528 | 215 | |
| 1956 | — | #556 | 186 | |
| 1955 | — | #567 | 170 | |
| 1954 | — | #597 | 154 | |
| 1953 | — | #607 | 143 | |
| 1952 | — | #594 | 139 | |
| 1951 | — | #635 | 123 | |
| 1950 | — | #791 | 74 | |
| 1949 | — | #878 | 61 | |
| 1948 | — | #923 | 56 | |
| 1947 | — | #889 | 61 | |
| 1946 | — | #862 | 58 | |
| 1945 | — | #1,122 | 34 | |
| 1944 | — | #1,235 | 29 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,258 | 30 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,074 | 40 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,532 | 20 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,227 | 30 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,636 | 17 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,149 | 32 | |
| 1937 | — | #1,403 | 23 | |
| 1936 | — | #1,639 | 17 | |
| 1935 | — | #1,453 | 22 | |
| 1934 | — | #1,498 | 21 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,905 | 14 | |
| 1932 | — | #1,387 | 25 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,843 | 16 | |
| 1930 | — | #2,609 | 10 | |
| 1929 | — | #2,002 | 15 | |
| 1928 | — | #2,522 | 11 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
| 1926 | — | #2,436 | 12 | |
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | #2,822 | 10 | |
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,801 | 10 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,214 | 8 | |
| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,368 | 7 | |
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| 1916 | — | #3,897 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Rolando! It came in at #3,897, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1916–1917, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Rolando is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#194 · 1 in 1,044
- Illinois#273 · 1 in 2,285
- California#295 · 1 in 2,376
- Massachusetts#327 · 1 in 4,900
- Florida#362 · 1 in 3,245
Best ever in a state: #129 in Texas, 1975.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #194 | 141 | 1 in 1,044 |
| Illinois | #273 | 36 | 1 in 2,285 |
| California | #295 | 94 | 1 in 2,376 |
| Massachusetts | #327 | 8 | 1 in 4,900 |
| Florida | #362 | 23 | 1 in 3,245 |
| New Jersey | #393 | 10 | 1 in 4,656 |
| New York | #402 | 29 | 1 in 4,174 |
| Virginia | #423 | 7 | 1 in 5,400 |
| Wisconsin | #424 | 5 | 1 in 6,827 |
| Louisiana | #628 | 5 | 1 in 7,170 |
| Pennsylvania | #669 | 5 | 1 in 15,413 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Rolando
- 99 spots since 2024 (#1,271 → #1,370)
- 167 spots since 2020 (#1,203 → #1,370)
- 419 spots since 2015 (#951 → #1,370)
- Biggest jump: 260 spots in 1946 (#1,122 → #862)
- Biggest drop: 101 spots in 2017 (#935 → #1,036)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1980 at #373 (459 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 35 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 71 yrs · run 1946–2016
- Highest: 1 in 3,691 boys born in 1975 were named Rolando (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,652 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #373 in 1980, was only 1 in 3,887 (0.03%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.3% of all boys named Rolando (4,232) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 18 | #3,368 (1918) | #3,667 |
| 1920s | 93 | #2,002 (1929) | #3,041 |
| 1930s | 197 | #1,149 (1938) | #1,652 |
| 1940s | 419 | #862 (1946) | #1,100 |
| 1950s | 1,618 | #527 (1959) | #596 |
| 1960s | 2,652 | #453 (1965) | #479 |
| 1970s | 3,663 | #375 (1975) | #415 |
| 1980s | 4,219 | #373 (1980) | #415 |
| 1990s | 4,075 | #463 (1994) | #504 |
| 2000s | 4,232 | #509 (2001) | #564 |
| 2010s | 2,307 | #720 (2010) | #931 |
| 2020s | 945 | #1,158 (2021) | #1,239 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Rolando in 1985
Top boys' names in 1985
More about 1985
boys
1,848,210 boys got a published name in 1985; 1 in 4,586 of them was named Rolando, which outranked 94.4% of the 7,586 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.