Meaning not yet researched.
Yolanda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 49 in 2025. Its best rank was #89 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #89 in 1972; #3,248 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yolanda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,248 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #89.
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Yolanda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 49 girls in 2025. Peak: #89 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 3,771 (1969).
In 2025, 49 US girls were named Yolanda, making it the 3,248th most common girls’ name of the year, down 642 places from #2,606 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 68 girls named Yolanda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #89, reached in 1972. The most girls given the name in a single year was 3,771, in 1969. For comparison, it was #1,882 in 2015 and #179 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yolanda in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1901 with 9 babies. In all, 113,455 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 28,568 babies named Yolanda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 743 US girls were named Yolanda; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 113. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,801 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Yolonda (3,874 babies since 1880), Yulanda (1,088 babies since 1880) and Yulonda (962 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yolande, Jolanda and Jolinda 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Yolande (1,620), Jolanda (1,015), Jolinda (1,003), Youlanda (857), Yola (587), Yolunda (240), Yolinda (181), Iolanda (64), Jolanta (58), Youlonda (41), Yulinda (28), Yolaunda (14), and more.
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 Yolanda in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,248 | — | — |
| 2024 | 68 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,850 | — | — |
| 2022 | 54 | #3,071 | — | — |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,068 | — | — |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 2019 | 84 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 2018 | 97 | #2,024 | — | — |
| 2017 | 113 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 2016 | 99 | #2,016 | — | — |
| 2015 | 109 | #1,882 | — | — |
| 2014 | 123 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 2013 | 105 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 2012 | 134 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 2011 | 119 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 2010 | 134 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 2009 | 163 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 2008 | 172 | #1,389 | — | — |
| 2007 | 199 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 2006 | 233 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2005 | 214 | #1,111 | — | — |
| 2004 | 211 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2003 | 224 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2002 | 228 | #974 | — | — |
| 2001 | 246 | #919 | — | — |
| 2000 | 295 | #780 | — | — |
| 1999 | 274 | #799 | — | — |
| 1998 | 288 | #751 | — | — |
| 1997 | 353 | #635 | — | — |
| 1996 | 378 | #607 | — | — |
| 1995 | 415 | #560 | — | — |
| 1994 | 468 | #527 | — | — |
| 1993 | 578 | #435 | — | — |
| 1992 | 597 | #422 | — | — |
| 1991 | 606 | #422 | — | — |
| 1990 | 672 | #390 | 9 | #5,810 |
| 1989 | 713 | #359 | 9 | #5,603 |
| 1988 | 799 | #310 | 9 | #5,194 |
| 1987 | 895 | #275 | 10 | #4,569 |
| 1986 | 882 | #278 | 13 | #3,651 |
| 1985 | 1,043 | #247 | 9 | #4,690 |
| 1984 | 1,069 | #237 | 8 | #4,964 |
| 1983 | 1,209 | #208 | 7 | #5,475 |
| 1982 | 1,439 | #191 | 9 | #4,583 |
| 1981 | 1,565 | #177 | 15 | #3,029 |
| 1980 | 1,776 | #157 | 16 | #2,964 |
| 1979 | 1,934 | #147 | 10 | #4,063 |
| 1978 | 1,951 | #138 | 10 | #3,851 |
| 1977 | 2,122 | #134 | 17 | #2,663 |
| 1976 | 2,273 | #117 | 11 | #3,469 |
| 1975 | 2,655 | #107 | 17 | #2,536 |
| 1974 | 2,632 | #112 | 10 | #3,557 |
| 1973 | 2,754 | #113 | 20 | #2,123 |
| 1972 | 3,398 | #89 | 17 | #2,322 |
| 1971 | 3,721 | #98 | 22 | #1,986 |
| 1970 | 3,591 | #106 | 22 | #1,936 |
| 1969 | 3,771 | #98 | 11 | #2,859 |
| 1968 | 3,697 | #93 | 24 | #1,649 |
| 1967 | 2,798 | #120 | 12 | #2,468 |
| 1966 | 2,772 | #131 | 5 | #4,537 |
| 1965 | 2,759 | #139 | 12 | #2,472 |
| 1964 | 2,763 | #147 | 13 | #2,408 |
| 1963 | 2,579 | #157 | 11 | #2,669 |
| 1962 | 2,458 | #165 | 14 | #2,277 |
| 1961 | 2,514 | #167 | 9 | #3,093 |
| 1960 | 2,329 | #172 | 17 | #2,039 |
| 1959 | 2,285 | #169 | 12 | #2,528 |
| 1958 | 2,258 | #166 | 16 | #2,091 |
| 1957 | 2,327 | #165 | 13 | #2,374 |
| 1956 | 2,276 | #164 | 7 | #3,534 |
| 1955 | 2,056 | #167 | 12 | #2,434 |
| 1954 | 1,960 | #175 | 6 | #3,824 |
| 1953 | 1,808 | #171 | 9 | #2,900 |
| 1952 | 1,775 | #173 | 10 | #2,677 |
| 1951 | 1,637 | #179 | — | — |
| 1950 | 1,567 | #179 | 7 | #3,325 |
| 1949 | 1,408 | #193 | 16 | #1,939 |
| 1948 | 1,364 | #197 | 8 | #3,006 |
| 1947 | 1,379 | #194 | 6 | #3,729 |
| 1946 | 1,200 | #203 | 6 | #3,522 |
| 1945 | 771 | #240 | 6 | #3,335 |
| 1944 | 561 | #289 | — | — |
| 1943 | 475 | #323 | 5 | #4,037 |
| 1942 | 440 | #331 | — | — |
| 1941 | 369 | #341 | — | — |
| 1940 | 352 | #342 | — | — |
| 1939 | 312 | #373 | — | — |
| 1938 | 333 | #354 | — | — |
| 1937 | 339 | #349 | — | — |
| 1936 | 293 | #370 | — | — |
| 1935 | 251 | #410 | — | — |
| 1934 | 238 | #425 | — | — |
| 1933 | 220 | #434 | — | — |
| 1932 | 261 | #405 | — | — |
| 1931 | 325 | #357 | — | — |
| 1930 | 351 | #359 | — | — |
| 1929 | 349 | #348 | — | — |
| 1928 | 411 | #329 | — | — |
| 1927 | 378 | #343 | — | — |
| 1926 | 449 | #314 | — | — |
| 1925 | 542 | #288 | — | — |
| 1924 | 573 | #276 | — | — |
| 1923 | 603 | #261 | — | — |
| 1922 | 450 | #306 | — | — |
| 1921 | 356 | #348 | — | — |
| 1920 | 321 | #368 | — | — |
| 1919 | 326 | #356 | — | — |
| 1918 | 306 | #375 | — | — |
| 1917 | 338 | #339 | — | — |
| 1916 | 292 | #360 | — | — |
| 1915 | 251 | #382 | — | — |
| 1914 | 172 | #405 | — | — |
| 1913 | 108 | #490 | — | — |
| 1912 | 84 | #535 | — | — |
| 1911 | 63 | #530 | — | — |
| 1910 | 39 | #690 | — | — |
| 1909 | 33 | #705 | — | — |
| 1908 | 35 | #663 | — | — |
| 1907 | 22 | #818 | — | — |
| 1906 | 16 | #962 | — | — |
| 1905 | 25 | #733 | — | — |
| 1904 | 10 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 1903 | 13 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,225 | — | — |
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).