Yolander

Last seen for girls in 1981 at #6,804

Peak · girls
1969 · 23 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
274
since 1951

Yolander over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Yolander has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201970peak #2,768, 1969girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1981#6,8049
1980#10,3925
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First appearance
1951

The first year at least five girls were named Yolander! It came in at #5,414, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1951–1955, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Yolander is popular in 1970

No state had 5 or more girls named Yolander in 1970, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Yolander
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1981
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1951
  • Peaked 1969 at #2,768 (23 births)
  • Births halved by 1976, 7 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 73,349
  • Highest: 1 in 73,349 girls born in 1969 were named Yolander (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 185,340 girls born in 1981 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 43.1% of all girls named Yolander (118) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s26#4,300 (1959)#5,159
1960s116#2,768 (1969)#4,346
1970s118#3,373 (1971)#4,798
1980s14#6,804 (1981)#8,598

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Yolander in 1970

girls
#3,712
16 births · 1 in 109,259 girls

Top girls' names in 1970

  1. #1Jennifer46,150
  2. #2Lisa38,967
  3. #3Kimberly34,130
  4. #4Michelle34,047
  5. #5Amy25,212
  6. #6Angela24,929
  7. #7Melissa23,735
  8. #8Tammy19,587
  9. #9Mary19,204
  10. #10Tracy18,464
  11. #3,712Yolander16
More about 1970

girls

1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 109,259 of them was named Yolander, which outranked 60.3% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Yolander
  1. #3,577Ulanda17
  2. #3,577Velva17
  3. #3,577Wileen17
  4. #3,712Yolander16
  5. #3,712Abra16
  6. #3,712Adelita16
  7. #3,712Allicia16
  8. #3,872Adelia15
  9. #3,872Adonica15
  10. #3,872Alex15

Tied with 159 names at #3,712; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,541Tanisha#2,515 → #974
  2. ↑ 1,194India#1,955 → #761
  3. ↑ 695Shay#1,648 → #953
  4. ↑ 685Terra#1,303 → #618
  5. ↑ 669Dyan#1,648 → #979
Fallers
  1. ↓ 385Cinnamon#698 → #1,083
  2. ↓ 306Kaye#932 → #1,238
  3. ↓ 303Luanne#990 → #1,293
  4. ↓ 273Laureen#845 → #1,118
  5. ↓ 273Lesia#965 → #1,238

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1970 →