Meaning not yet researched.
Rolando: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 135 in 2025. Its best rank was #374 in 1980.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #374 in 1980; #1,374 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Rolando in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,374 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1980, at #374.
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Rolando: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 135 boys in 2025. Peak: #374 in 1980 · most boys in one year: 473 (1994).
In 2025, 135 US boys were named Rolando, making it the 1,374th most common boys’ name of the year, down 100 places from #1,274 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 155 boys named Rolando in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #374, reached in 1980. The most boys given the name in a single year was 473, in 1994. For comparison, it was #953 in 2015 and #794 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Rolando in 109 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 24,516 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 4,252 babies named Rolando.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,715 US boys were named Rolando; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 224. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,652 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Rolando ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #608 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Roland (101,191 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Rolondo are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Rolondo (84).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Rolando in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 51 | #608 | #383 |
| Kansas | 5 | #677 | — |
| California | 26 | #899 | #779 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,333 | #863 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,509 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 135 | #1,374 |
| 2024 | — | — | 155 | #1,274 |
| 2023 | — | — | 163 | #1,222 |
| 2022 | — | — | 163 | #1,215 |
| 2021 | — | — | 172 | #1,160 |
| 2020 | — | — | 157 | #1,208 |
| 2019 | — | — | 174 | #1,126 |
| 2018 | — | — | 178 | #1,105 |
| 2017 | — | — | 194 | #1,041 |
| 2016 | — | — | 224 | #937 |
| 2015 | — | — | 217 | #953 |
| 2014 | — | — | 238 | #904 |
| 2013 | — | — | 250 | #857 |
| 2012 | — | — | 236 | #889 |
| 2011 | — | — | 277 | #798 |
| 2010 | — | — | 319 | #722 |
| 2009 | — | — | 345 | #699 |
| 2008 | — | — | 415 | #605 |
| 2007 | — | — | 452 | #570 |
| 2006 | — | — | 438 | #571 |
| 2005 | — | — | 431 | #555 |
| 2004 | — | — | 453 | #527 |
| 2003 | — | — | 405 | #552 |
| 2002 | — | — | 417 | #538 |
| 2001 | — | — | 446 | #509 |
| 2000 | — | — | 430 | #521 |
| 1999 | — | — | 365 | #550 |
| 1998 | — | — | 435 | #497 |
| 1997 | — | — | 404 | #509 |
| 1996 | — | — | 384 | #522 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,218 | 441 | #489 |
| 1994 | 6 | #13,045 | 473 | #463 |
| 1993 | — | — | 393 | #518 |
| 1992 | — | — | 403 | #501 |
| 1991 | — | — | 391 | #502 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,697 | 386 | #496 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,574 | 395 | #482 |
| 1988 | — | — | 431 | #434 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,558 | 408 | #440 |
| 1986 | — | — | 422 | #416 |
| 1985 | — | — | 403 | #427 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,061 | 441 | #389 |
| 1983 | — | — | 429 | #389 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,166 | 385 | #427 |
| 1981 | — | — | 446 | #384 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,840 | 459 | #374 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,483 | 455 | #378 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,439 | 395 | #390 |
| 1977 | — | — | 372 | #405 |
| 1976 | — | — | 342 | #421 |
| 1975 | — | — | 423 | #375 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,469 | 360 | #413 |
| 1973 | — | — | 325 | #432 |
| 1972 | 6 | #8,006 | 320 | #444 |
| 1971 | — | — | 348 | #438 |
| 1970 | — | — | 323 | #454 |
| 1969 | — | — | 254 | #483 |
| 1968 | — | — | 281 | #459 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,616 | 264 | #467 |
| 1966 | — | — | 262 | #474 |
| 1965 | — | — | 291 | #454 |
| 1964 | — | — | 253 | #496 |
| 1963 | — | — | 252 | #508 |
| 1962 | — | — | 265 | #486 |
| 1961 | — | — | 259 | #492 |
| 1960 | — | — | 271 | #481 |
| 1959 | — | — | 224 | #527 |
| 1958 | — | — | 190 | #562 |
| 1957 | — | — | 215 | #529 |
| 1956 | — | — | 186 | #558 |
| 1955 | — | — | 170 | #570 |
| 1954 | — | — | 154 | #598 |
| 1953 | — | — | 143 | #610 |
| 1952 | — | — | 139 | #598 |
| 1951 | — | — | 123 | #639 |
| 1950 | — | — | 74 | #794 |
| 1949 | — | — | 61 | #883 |
| 1948 | — | — | 56 | #931 |
| 1947 | — | — | 61 | #897 |
| 1946 | — | — | 58 | #867 |
| 1945 | — | — | 34 | #1,138 |
| 1944 | — | — | 29 | #1,253 |
| 1943 | — | — | 30 | #1,276 |
| 1942 | — | — | 40 | #1,086 |
| 1941 | — | — | 20 | #1,580 |
| 1940 | — | — | 30 | #1,248 |
| 1939 | — | — | 17 | #1,701 |
| 1938 | — | — | 32 | #1,167 |
| 1937 | — | — | 23 | #1,437 |
| 1936 | — | — | 17 | #1,716 |
| 1935 | — | — | 22 | #1,481 |
| 1934 | — | — | 21 | #1,545 |
| 1933 | — | — | 14 | #1,983 |
| 1932 | — | — | 25 | #1,416 |
| 1931 | — | — | 16 | #1,911 |
| 1930 | — | — | 10 | #2,754 |
| 1929 | — | — | 15 | #2,081 |
| 1928 | — | — | 11 | #2,619 |
| 1927 | — | — | 8 | #3,397 |
| 1926 | — | — | 12 | #2,538 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,106 |
| 1924 | — | — | 10 | #2,983 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,779 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,964 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,450 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,847 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,085 |
| 1918 | — | — | 7 | #3,645 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,397 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).