Jolanda
given name · Western Frisian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jolanda is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 98th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Western Frisian and Dutch, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: German form of French and English } Yolande (see main dictionary).
- NLNetherlands1 in 522◐
- ESSpain1 in 548
- USUnited States1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈298K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 200 ●
- 1 in 522 ◐
across 14 countries
recorded for this name
48K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yolanda in GR Greece and Γιολαντα in CY Cyprus.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin●
German form of French and English } Yolande (see main dictionary).
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 135,581△ | 15K rec. | 1 in 2.5K | 136K | Jolanda | 200 |
| ES Spain | — | 91,325△ | 775 rec. | 1 in 548 | 92K | Jolanda | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | #98 | 33,118 | 23K rec. | 1 in 522 | 33K | Jolanda | 120 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 21,639△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 781 | 22K | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 9,869△ | 194 rec. | 1 in 21K | 12K | Jolanda | 29 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 3,327△ | 5 rec. | 1 in 1.5K | 3.3K | — | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | #387 | 1,722 | 876 rec. | — | — | Jolanda | 45 |
| DE Germany | — | 1,618 | 1.4K rec. | — | 1 | Jolanda | 81 |
| IT Italy | — | 1,290 | 1.1K rec. | — | 7 | Jolanda | 45 |
| GR Greece | #618 | 1,180 | 1.1K rec. | — | 4 | Yolanda | 34 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 925△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 2.3K | 925 | — | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 839 | 762 rec. | — | 4 | Jolanda | 47 |
Roughly 136K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 2.5K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Western Frisian57K28%
- Dutch55K27%
- English53K26%
- German5.6K3%
- Croatian4.4K2%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Western Frisian | 56,608 | 28% |
| Dutch | 54,820 | 27% |
| English | 53,211 | 26% |
| German | 5,563 | 3% |
| Croatian | 4,367 | 2% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Jolanda is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, ) Jolande; Jolanta; Jolanthe;
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
[Ignoto]
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
Italian form of YOLANDE . The name was a traditional one in the royal house of Savoy, and was revived in Italy in 1901, when it was given by King Victor Emmanuel III to his first child. This spelling is also commonly used in Holland. Cognates: Polish: Jolanta. Czech: Jolan(t)a. Hungarian: Jolán. Pet form: Polish: Jola .
as a word
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 5 |
| 1923 | 5 |
| 1947 | 7 |
| 1948 | 6 |
| 1949 | 7 |
| 1950 | 6 |
| 1954 | 8 |
| 1955 | 5 |
| 1956 | 18 |
| 1957 | 17 |
| 1959 | 13 |
| 1960 | 13 |
| 1961 | 14 |
| 1962 | 7 |
| 1963 | 38 |
| 1964 | 48 |
| 1965 | 55 |
| 1966 | 51 |
| 1967 | 34 |
| 1968 | 45 |
| 1969 | 37 |
| 1970 | 30 |
| 1971 | 24 |
| 1972 | 28 |
| 1973 | 29 |
| 1974 | 33 |
| 1975 | 38 |
| 1976 | 27 |
| 1977 | 28 |
| 1978 | 20 |
| 1979 | 30 |
| 1980 | 18 |
| 1981 | 27 |
| 1982 | 23 |
| 1983 | 16 |
| 1984 | 26 |
| 1985 | 18 |
| 1986 | 20 |
| 1987 | 18 |
| 1988 | 15 |
| 1989 | 20 |
| 1990 | 17 |
| 1991 | 15 |
| 1992 | 17 |
| 1993 | 12 |
| 1994 | 8 |
| 1995 | 7 |
| 1998 | 6 |
| 2008 | 6 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1918–2008. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Yolanda of Flandersb. 1175TRnot in their usual nameRegent of Latin Empire of Constantinople (1175-1219)
- Yolande de Dreuxb. 1259not in their usual nameQueen consort of Scotland, duchess consort of Britain
- Yolande of Aragon, Duchess of Calabriab. 1273ESnot in their usual nameDuchess of Calabria
- Yolanda de Aragonb. 1384ESnot in their usual nameInfanta de Aragon, titular queen consort of Naples, French noble (1384-1442)
- Jolanda Benvenutib. 1908ITItalian film editor (1908-1981)
- Jolanta Umeckab. 1937PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
- Krystyna Jandab. 1952PLnot in their usual namePolish actress
- Jolanta Kwaśniewskab. 1955PLnot in their usual namePolish lawyer and charity activist
- Jolanta Dylewskab. 1958PLnot in their usual namePolish cinematographer
- Jolanda Čeplakb. 1976SIathletics competitor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 57 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 33K | #41 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 23K | #122 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #9,857 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 1.1K | #174 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 1.1K | #174 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 925 | #213 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 917 | #416 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 784 | #632 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 586 | #699 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 471 | #2,219 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 421 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 292 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 224 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jolanda?
- We estimate roughly 298 thousand people bear Jolanda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jolanda have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 136 thousand people bear Jolanda in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jolanda.
- Where is Jolanda most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jolanda is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 522 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Jolanda compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Jolanda is the 98th most common given name of 134,847 given names recorded there.
- Is Jolanda a male or female name?
- Jolanda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Jolanda mean?
- Recorded meaning: German form of French and English } Yolande (see main dictionary).
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jolanda” — the 98th most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.