# Rollo (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/rollo/  
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 | Rollins |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 949 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 949 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 202, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Latinization of the Old French equivalent of the English Rolf.

## 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, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 6 | 5,114 |
| 1979 | 7 | 5,258 |
| 1980 | 6 | 6,093 |
| 1987 | 5 | 7,895 |
| 2015 | 10 | 7,924 |
| 2016 | 9 | 8,675 |
| 2017 | 10 | 8,018 |
| 2018 | 8 | 9,496 |
| 2019 | 8 | 9,577 |
| 2020 | 9 | 8,593 |
| 2021 | 11 | 7,478 |
| 2022 | 12 | 7,161 |
| 2023 | 5 | 13,768 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,654 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,780 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 8 | 2,400 |
| 2011 | 5 | 3,300 |
| 2012 | 5 | 3,416 |
| 2014 | 5 | 3,362 |
| 2015 | 8 | 2,483 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2,335 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 13 | 1,745 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,076 |
| 2021 | 18 | 1,391 |
| 2022 | 14 | 1,692 |
| 2023 | 15 | 1,610 |
| 2024 | 13 | 1,859 |
| 2025 | 19 | 1,406 |

## People named Rollo

- Rollo May, American psychologist (1909–1994)
- Rollo Weeks, British actor
- Rollo Beck, American explorer, ornithologist and bird collector (1870–1950)
- Rollo Carpenter, British artificial intelligence researcher
- Patrick French, British writer (1966–2023)

## 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.