Rollie

Where Rollie comes from

From Roland + -ie.
— Wiktionary's entry for Rollie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #442 among boys — 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1893
    Peak, #383
    22 babies named Rollie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1900
    Rollie Free born
    American motorcycle racer
  4. 1901
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #779.
  5. 1946
    Rollie Fingers born
    American baseball player
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Rollie Fingers · American baseball player, born 1946
  • Rollie Free · American motorcycle racer, 1900–1984
  • Rollie Stiles · American baseball player, 1906–2007
  • Rollie Heath · American politician, born 1937
  • Rollie Seltz · American basketball player, 1924–2022

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.