# Rolando (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rolando/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 24,516 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 24,438 / 78 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 10, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 6 | 6,616 |
| 1972 | 6 | 8,006 |
| 1974 | 6 | 8,469 |
| 1978 | 6 | 9,439 |
| 1979 | 5 | 11,483 |
| 1980 | 7 | 8,840 |
| 1982 | 6 | 10,166 |
| 1984 | 6 | 10,061 |
| 1987 | 7 | 9,558 |
| 1989 | 7 | 10,574 |
| 1990 | 5 | 14,697 |
| 1994 | 6 | 13,045 |
| 1995 | 5 | 15,218 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 277 | 798 |
| 2012 | 236 | 889 |
| 2013 | 250 | 857 |
| 2014 | 238 | 904 |
| 2015 | 217 | 953 |
| 2016 | 224 | 937 |
| 2017 | 194 | 1,041 |
| 2018 | 178 | 1,105 |
| 2019 | 174 | 1,126 |
| 2020 | 157 | 1,208 |
| 2021 | 172 | 1,160 |
| 2022 | 163 | 1,215 |
| 2023 | 163 | 1,222 |
| 2024 | 155 | 1,274 |
| 2025 | 135 | 1,374 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |
| 2003 | 3 | 3,467 |
| 2006 | 4 | 3,385 |

## People named Rolando

- Rolando Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
- Rolando Aarons, English football player (born 1995)
- Rolando Tucker, Cuban fencer
- Rolando García, Chilean footballer (born 1942)
- Rolando Serrano, Colombian footballer and manager (1938-2022)
- Rolando Schiavi, Argentine association football player
- Rolando Rigoli, fencer
- Rolando Garbey, Cuban former boxer (1947–2023)
- Rolando Alarcón, Chilean teacher, folklorist, soloist, composer (1929–1973)
- Rolando Crisostomo Santos, Filipino Roman Catholic bishop
- Rolando Zárate, Argentine footballer
- Rolando Arrojo, baseball player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.